ultimate authors guide 01 - writing dynamite story hooks by Jackson Dean Chase

Author:Jackson Dean Chase
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Writing
Publisher: Jackson Dean Chase, Inc.
Published: 2018-06-21T04:00:00+00:00

SHIRLEY JACKSON, THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

That’s a clever way, a powerful way, to set up an inanimate object as a villain. Just one paragraph is all you need—if it’s the right one. Let’s take a look now at how animals might be introduced as villains:

They scurried through the darkness, shadowy creatures living in permanent night.

They had learned to become still, to be the darkness, when the huge monsters roared above and filled the tunnels with thunder, assaulting the black refuge—their cold, damp sanctuary—with rushing lights and deadly crushing weight. They would cower as the ground beneath them shook, the walls around them trembled; and they would wait until the rushing thing had passed, not afraid but necessarily wary, for it was an inveterate invader but one which killed the careless.

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