Non Fiction - Writing Craft
Date Published: 7/06/12
Are your frightening scenes scary enough? Learn practical tricks to turn up the suspense. Make your readers' hearts hammer with suspense, their breaths quicken with excitement, and their skins tingle with goosebumps of delicious fright.
This book contains practical suggestions how to structure a scary scene, increase the suspense, make the climax more terrifying, make the reader feel the character's fear. It includes techniques for manipulating the readers' subconscious and creating powerful emotional effects.
Use this book to write a new scene, or to add tension and excitement to a draft.
You will learn tricks of the trade for "black moment" and "climax" scenes, describing monsters and villains, writing harrowing captivity sections and breathtaking escapes, as well as how to make sure that your hero doesn't come across as a wimp... and much more.
This book is recommended for writers of all genres, especially thriller, horror, paranormal romance and urban fantasy.
This book contains practical suggestions how to structure a scary scene, increase the suspense, make the climax more terrifying, make the reader feel the character's fear. It includes techniques for manipulating the readers' subconscious and creating powerful emotional effects.
Use this book to write a new scene, or to add tension and excitement to a draft.
You will learn tricks of the trade for "black moment" and "climax" scenes, describing monsters and villains, writing harrowing captivity sections and breathtaking escapes, as well as how to make sure that your hero doesn't come across as a wimp... and much more.
This book is recommended for writers of all genres, especially thriller, horror, paranormal romance and urban fantasy.
Buy Links
Rayne Hall has published more than forty books under different pen names with different publishers in different genres, mostly fantasy, horror and non-fiction. Recent books include Storm Dancer (dark epic fantasy novel), Six Historical Tales Vol 1, Six Scary Tales Vol 1, 2 and 3 (mild horror stories), Six Historical Tales (short stories), Six Quirky Tales (humorous fantasy stories), Writing Fight Scenes andWriting Scary Scenes (instructions for authors).
She holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Currently, she edits the Ten Tales series of multi-author short story anthologies: Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and more.
https://sites.google.com/site/raynehallsdarkfantasyfiction/
Twitter: @raynehall
Follow Along With This Tour!
February 15 - Reading Addiction Blog Tours - Meet and Greet
February 16 - My Reading Addiction - Review
February 17 - Books are Cool - Review
February 18 - Deal Sharing Aunt - Review
February 20 - Word By Word - Review
February 21 - Willing to See Less - Review
February 22 - Deborah's Books - Review
February 23 - Love in a Book - Review
February 24 - Fae Books - Review
February 26 - Lindie Dagenhart - Review
February 28 - Snifferwalk - Review
March 1 - Jen McConnel - Review
March 2 - Psychotic State Books - Review
March 3 - Leanna Me - Review
March 4 - One Page at a Time - Review
March 6 - My Cozie Corner - Review
March 10 - Author Ever Leigh - Review
March 11 - Reader Girls - Review
March 12 - The Book Faery Reviews - Review
March 13 - Stressed Rach - Review
March 14 - RABT Reviews - Review
March 15 - Le Vanity Victory - Review
Rayne Hall has published more than forty books under different pen names with different publishers in different genres, mostly fantasy, horror and non-fiction. Recent books include Storm Dancer (dark epic fantasy novel), Six Historical Tales Vol 1, Six Scary Tales Vol 1, 2 and 3 (mild horror stories), Six Historical Tales (short stories), Six Quirky Tales (humorous fantasy stories), Writing Fight Scenes andWriting Scary Scenes (instructions for authors).
She holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Currently, she edits the Ten Tales series of multi-author short story anthologies: Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft, Spells: Ten Tales of Magic, Undead: Ten Tales of Zombies and more.
https://sites.google.com/site/raynehallsdarkfantasyfiction/
https://sites.google.com/site/raynehallsdarkfantasyfiction/
Twitter: @raynehall
Follow Along With This Tour!
February 15 - Reading Addiction Blog Tours - Meet and Greet
February 16 - My Reading Addiction - Review
February 17 - Books are Cool - Review
February 18 - Deal Sharing Aunt - Review
February 20 - Word By Word - Review
February 21 - Willing to See Less - Review
February 22 - Deborah's Books - Review
February 23 - Love in a Book - Review
February 24 - Fae Books - Review
February 26 - Lindie Dagenhart - Review
February 28 - Snifferwalk - Review
March 1 - Jen McConnel - Review
March 2 - Psychotic State Books - Review
March 3 - Leanna Me - Review
March 4 - One Page at a Time - Review
March 6 - My Cozie Corner - Review
March 10 - Author Ever Leigh - Review
March 11 - Reader Girls - Review
March 12 - The Book Faery Reviews - Review
March 13 - Stressed Rach - Review
March 14 - RABT Reviews - Review
March 15 - Le Vanity Victory - Review
No comments:
Post a Comment