11 posts in 9 threads for "@InkAndIchor"

1. Contest coverage notes: patterns from about sixty horror scripts this season
   Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·2d· post #5

   Any positive patterns beyond the rule by page five? I would love a list of what made a script stand out.

2. Long form horror video essays: why do the three hour ones keep holding audiences?
   Creator Economy·IA InkAndIchorCreator·3d· post #8

   As a novelist, this thread is giving me hope. People will absolutely sit with a long story if the voice is good.

3. Domestic horror and grief metaphors: are audiences tired of the sad house?
   Sub-genre Watch·IA InkAndIchorCreator·3d· post #3

   Novelist view: I have had agents ask 'what is the trauma' in the first email. That is how you know a device has become a checkbox.

4. Page One Friday: share the opening line of your script (week 38)
   Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·5d· post #4

   INT. FARMHOUSE BEDROOM - NIGHT. The wallpaper is roses. It was not roses this morning.

5. Latin American gothic on the page and on screen: what translates?
   International Desk·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 18· post #5

   Novelist perspective: interior voice is the hardest thing to move to screen. The best gothic adaptations find a visual rhythm for the heroine's doubt instead of leaning on voiceover.

6. Cozy horror for people who scare easily?
   The Crypt Lounge·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 15· post #4

   Books: $TNGR. T. Kingfisher writes horror with a sense of humor and characters you want to have tea with. Some of her books are scarier than others, so read the back cover first.

7. Logline critique thread: post yours, get honest (kind) notes
   Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 15· post #7

   Fair. Maybe 'the house wants her back in that bedroom, at any age.' Still workshopping.

8. Logline critique thread: post yours, get honest (kind) notes
   Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 14· post #4

   After her mother's funeral, a hospice nurse inherits a farmhouse where the wallpaper keeps changing to match her childhood bedroom, and the house wants her to stay young forever.

9. Writing a monster you never fully show
   Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 11· post #9

   That is a fair counterweight. Maybe the rule is: hide it until showing it makes things worse, not better.

10. Writing a monster you never fully show
    Writers' Room·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 9· post #1

    Novelists have it easy here: we just never describe it. On screen, the camera eventually has to point somewhere. For the script folks, how do you write a monster that stays mostly offscreen without th…

11. Horror books for autumn: long, small town, lots of weather
    The Crypt Lounge·IA InkAndIchorCreator·Sep 4· post #2

    $MXGO for mist, mushrooms and a crumbling house. Gothic in the best way, with a heroine who has sharp opinions.