Suffering, a Successful Attraction · 10:24am Jun 21st, 2023
Hello, dear readers!
As some might already know, I published a new fic:
I wanted to thank once again RDT for proofreading and giving useful suggestions to make this fic work, but I also wanted to thank you all for reading and supporting it to the point that it got a flame symbol yesterday! 
Also, itʼs now the second fic that broke the barrier of 100 likes (the first being I See No Foals), which is unbelievable! It wouldnʼt be possible without your support 
There are a few things I personally found interesting to observe: Both fics have Twilight as the main character and have her go through a "bad fate"—I guess you all want to see her suffer 
Joking aside, Iʼm aware that itʼs the concept used in both fics that attract anyone—the first one having an inspiration of a to-death memed SCP, and the other... well, funny enough, there are also influences from SCP-2718, albeit nonetheless differently—trust me, the SCP one is much, much worse.
Horror per se is weirdly fascinating like a mystery slowly unfolding. Not everyone is a fan of these—my newest fic has for example now the record of being the most disliked—but it's the exploration of something uncomfortable, something that puts you on the edge. While on this site Romance and carefree Slice of Life are more successful (to "turn off from the day", to relax etc.), there are still groups who want to feel the tension. Well, I personally am not into gore horror, but I tend to click on horror fics more.
But writing horror is challenging. My prereader basically said to rewrite "I See No Foals" completely because I messed up the first draft badly, and with "Hyperesthesia" I had also to rewrite it once and then restructure it even to let it escalate the further it went. Horror is the type of genre where it can come dangerously close to "being edgy" or breaking the tension, like going too fast into the horror action and not giving the build-up and the climax a chance to be taken in. In my case, I have read many horror stuff, but I still need watchers from the outside to tell where things have to be improved or even rewritten.
But it pays off, and once your fic is able to let the readers get the feelings of unease and tension, then you can be sure that people will react to it and keep it in their minds
Well, enough of my ramblings. In short, if one wants to try to write horror stuff, go for it! Just make sure that you get different eyes to look at your drafts—technically one should for every fic per se, but in horror especially, because the border between getting it to work and being a failure is very thin.
Thank you all once again for all the support! I wish you everything well!
Yeah, horror is tough, for similar reasons as comedy.
I remember a writer somewhere defined the difference between horror and terror. Horror is fear of what has just occurred. Violence and gore, fates worse than death, these horrify us when they happen. But more powerful is terror, or fear of what is yet to come or just outside our knowledge.
Sci-Twi experiencing mind-numbing pain whenever Princess Twilight shows up in her world is horror. But whatever's happening to the original Sunset... that's terror.
I like it.