Brief observation

[chipotle]

So I'm tweaking the horror story and thinking I've got to make this suck more. And it occurred to me that this is about the only genre where that's a positive thing.

...Of course, I mean "make this suck more for the characters," but it's still sort of perversely amusing to be looking critically at the text and thinking how do I maximize the gut punch effect without increasing the word count?

(N.B.: thanks to shaterri the story's tentative title is "Carrier.")

Comments

[shaterri.livejournal.com]

Well, keep in mind that at the start of the story she's delivering/guarding the one person known to have survived the syndrome...