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[lar_laughs]

I need to start working on my spooky story. I realize that spooky sometimes comes from skewing reality. Any other ideas on how I could achieve spookiness?

My prompts are also giving me fits and I decided that maybe it needs to be different people I write about and that has meant more mulling.

Anyone good at spooky? Want to toss around ideas with me?

Comments

[camshaft22.livejournal.com]

I love tossing ideas.

You could skew reality by having your character wake up and realize he/she/zie's not precisely who they thought they were

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

I had thought about doing something where the characters THINK they're living their lives but really they're in other lives. Sort of like under a microscope and everything they do is being controlled. I've got to work in a mad scientist, some sort of space travel (although I think it could be some sort of airship so it doesn't have to be SPACE, per se), and a woman reading in a tower (which I have as the person who needs to figure out how to get the other characters to figure out what is going on or they're going to be stuck in this loop or new lives forever).

I'm also trying to work in some sort of fairy tale quality to the whole thing, too. One of the core ideas was the knight who can't be killed because his heart is being kept somewhere else. So the guy in the story is being kept in this place because he needs to find his heart. And the girl (the heart) is separated from him and thinks she's in love with someone else (complete with the kids that she never wanted in her real life and the house and dog in the backyard). And the woman in the tower needs to wake them up without getting to leave her tower.

Does any of that sound spooky? Should I try something easier? Does this sound too complicated? I'm nothing if always too complicated!

[camshaft22.livejournal.com]

I really like those angles!!! It sounds like the grounds for an epic mindfuck

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

And that sounds spooky?

So, I was thinking of doing the man and the woman in third person but having the woman in the tower in first person. Is that too confusing to have it going back and forth between POVs like that?

[camshaft22.livejournal.com]

Very spooky!

The POV switches might be confusing, but sometimes they can be done well. It depends on if you think you can handle it. I think you'll be able to pull it off.

[lar_laughs.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll give it a try and see what comes out! Thanks!

[camshaft22.livejournal.com]

Glad to help!