I am a total wimp about scary movies--I can only take them if they also have a large dose of comedy. I can handle Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, and movies like that, but I hate the jump-out-and-get-you type especially.
To this day, my husband teases me about when we were watching The Changeling, and I left the room after a moment that I will freely admit was only a "gotcha". A stained glass window burst, and I'd had enough, after all the other spooky stuff that came before that. And as much as I love and admire the LOTR movies, I can't watch them within a few hours of bedtime because they are just too disturbing for me.
As you might expect, my wimpiness carries over into scary books too. I don't even attempt most horror books.
But I've been stepping up the paranormal in this rewrite of my book, and sometimes after I write a scene, I have to set it aside and not look at it for a while. Not because I need to set it aside and come back to it with fresh eyes, but because it scares me! That just might be a new record for wimpitude.
But I do have to say I've had some weird things happen before, so I have plenty of genuinely creepy stuff to draw on. In the end, I don't think this novel will be classified as horror, but I hope I've done my job and at least unsettled a few people.
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I think its great that you can scare yourself. I can't recall if Stephen King ever said that he managed to scare himself, but I wouldn't doubt it. This was a fun post!
Of course, the bar is not set very high for me to get scared . . .did I just see something move out of the corner of my eye? Oh, the furnace switched on and the curtain is moving.
I'm not much for most scary movies either. I just don't find the suspense enjoyable--I always leave the theater feeling stressed out.
But, I love writing scary stories, at least MG and YA stories.
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