How do you spend your time when you’re sick on your birthday? What should you have done? Have you ever heard of Maggie Dickson, the woman who survived hanging? Would you like to meet a Burmese python in the Florida Everglades? And what would you do if you woke up and found your town covered in a snowfall of cocoa powder?
Ideas for stories are all around us. Each day, there are unusual things to be seen and mysterious sounds to be heard. It is up to you, the author, to make stories out of these events. Do you walk into a room and find that an item has been moved? What about that mysterious howl…
Are you looking for idioms and words that can be used to set a creepy tone to your scene or story? Do you want to use words that will send shivers up your readers’ spines? Is it your desire for those who hold your book in their hands to be frozen with fear? Will they…
