S03EP06: Scareuary 2024 - TRANSCRIPT
S03EP06: Scareuary 2024 - Loose Transcript
Hello! Welcome back. You're currently listening to season 3 episode 6, and in today's episode I want to introduce a writing event that I have been thinking of putting together for a little while now, and finally over the last handful of months I decided to go for it. This is a horror writing event, and it is called Scareuary because it takes place in the month of January. It's a chance to start of the new year with some spooky vibes. Definitely not the usual time that people like to focus on horror, but everyone's got October - but I decided that I want to have another part of the year where I get to focus on those creepy vibes. So, with that in mind, what is Scareuary?
Scareuary is composed of 4 different writing challenges, all of which span the entire month of January. You can choose one or more challenge to complete, but it's essentially a writing event that provides writers with the opportunity to get their horror writing skills up front and center. It caters to both seasoned horror writers who are already very familiar with the genre, so I made sure not to make the challenges too cliche or easy for these seasoned writers. For writers who don't write horror, I also made sure that I have a good balance between the different challenges and the prompts that they provide, and hopefully everyone can find a little something that they can challenge themselves to do.
Choose the challenge which suits you best and enjoy exploring its themes for the month.
Scareuary Challenges
The Coppe's Webbe
We're talking webs - sticky, unbreakable webs. For this event, you're given a randomly generated word. This prompt will serve as the connection between all of the stories you write for this event.
Up to 4 stories in total, each using the given word in some significant way. You can also manipulate the given word in a creative way (for example, if your word is 'stick', you can use 'sticks and stones', or 'stick insect', etc.).
To
up the challenge, words usually associated with horror, like skull,
ghost, zombie, blood, etc., will not be included in the prompt list.
Once you use the word in one way, you cannot use that aspect for any of
the other Coppe's Webbe stories. For example, if your word is 'elephant'
(see image above), once you write a story about a cursed elephant
figurine or statue, you can't write another similar story about a cursed
elephant-shaped figure or statue.
Best done weekly, so that you can write one story per week.
Access the random generator here to get your word and start weaving your web of horror!
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The Unseen
Write one or more stories about the idea of the unseen. What lingers just beyond our field of vision? What hides in the crevices of our minds? What prowls the opaque black of the moonless night, or the ever-encroaching walls of the cavern? Tell us about those frightful things which are not seen - ever - not even when they're faced head-on.
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Lingering Fears
Write a story - or several stories - about the concept of scares which stay with you long after you've experienced them. Fears which lurk in the back of your mind and rear their ugly heads every now and again. Insidious thoughts which prick at the edges of your character's minds, cementing themselves into their habits, their beliefs, their very sanity... Fears that might be long forgotten, but alive and thriving in the folds of your brain all the same.
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Ghastly Reflections
Symmetry. As above, so below. Light and dark. Halves of a whole.
Write
a horror story (or poem, if you prefer) on the theme of 'reflections',
with bonus points if it is formatted to look like two symmetrical
halves. Explore the duality of human nature - the two sides of evil, the
balance between monster and man, the desire for vice and virtue.
What do you see when you look in the mirror?
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