I’m not cut out to be a horror writer. Honestly, I have never tried. I simply don’t think I can do it. I don’t like attempting the creepy in the way horror writers seem to be very good at. Now when I say horror writers I’m not talking screenplay. I feel like there are precious few scripts that scare you and if they do they get ruined by directors. Maybe at one stage Hereditary was good, but you can visibly se the moment the director broke the very thing he wrote. It slips into a kind of kitch that is very predictable and rote. Cheap and easy scares if you will.
I think I’m better suited for action and loss. I’m good at writing about the things I can interpret as opposed to reaching for horror when my own real life experiences with the. So-called supernatural felt so basic and real and terrifying that to cover them with a jump scare would be disgusting. Horror is written with a matter of fact simplicity that makes you at once realize the gravity and terrifying alienness of that moment though the eyes of the victim. I am so impressed when a writer pulls that off.
Some thoughts:
- Apropos of nothing, the Suns fired their coach.
- I always thought the bidet came from Japan. Not sure that’s true anymore… or how to use the thing.
- perhaps all good writing comes from pain. We writers must suffer to have the fuel to tell people what suffering is like and why they ought to avoid it.
- thinking this blog may blossom soon. Ought to get better at writing it…