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

[kereminde.livejournal.com]

I would like to see this when you are finished, without possibly needing to go to Eurofurence. After all, I don't have a passport NOR the money :P

[kereminde.livejournal.com]

Having just gotten a look at it . . . I find it interesting. It's almost like an episode of the Outer Limits, short succinct and with most of the details which prevent fridge logic from stepping in and ruining the experience :)

It also, as with Outer Limits, ends on an ominously "this is not good" note. That's probably what made me think of OL first; Twilight Zone is a little more supernatural and surreal, though no kinder to the people involved.

This makes me want to dust off my writing pad and work a little bit of "fanfic" I was thinking on earlier.