Julie Phillips
Fear is a universal human response to danger. Fight or flight. It’s not a pleasant feeling, yet horror and crime writers, scriptwriters and film makers have us on the edge of our seats reading books or watching the silver screen, scaring us stupid with their scary words, characters and stories. Fear can come from many sources. It could be the way someone looks at, or speaks to us, or things that may happen to us – a sudden, unfamiliar sound, or being lost somewhere, alone, in the dark, with the sound of footsteps or the snap of a twig, for instance. This month it’s time to discover what frightens the people in your writing group, apart from receiving a reminder from HMRC to complete their tax returns, of course. By getting to the root of what has people screaming and running for the hills, your writing group will begin to unlock the skills they need to write in this genre.