As I have done over the last few years, I am gearing up to enter a fictional piece in our local paper's holiday writing contest. I am planning to write a scary Christmas story.
My daughter heard me tell my plan to my husband and she asked, "Why do you like writing scary Christmas stories?"
I told her I do because it's more unique, unexpected. And I love turning the stereotype of the Hallmark Christmas story on its ear.
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Do you like writing scary stories? Why? How did you get started?
My name is Jewel. Welcome to my blog!
As a young girl growing up in the Philippines, I always hoped for storms so ferocious that school would have to be cancelled. And when it was cancelled, my siblings and I got to stay home. Usually there was no electricity, which we called "black out".
Who cared about the storm outside when we had wax from the candle, to mold into a human shape and stick pins in...just kidding, we weren't really into voodoo. Anyway, along with the wax sculpting, we exchanged suspenseful stories, of ghosts and aswang and the mananaggal.
This blog is dedicated to that spine-tingling story, of things imagined or real. Come on in, grab a blob of wax and join me around the table.
Who cared about the storm outside when we had wax from the candle, to mold into a human shape and stick pins in...just kidding, we weren't really into voodoo. Anyway, along with the wax sculpting, we exchanged suspenseful stories, of ghosts and aswang and the mananaggal.
This blog is dedicated to that spine-tingling story, of things imagined or real. Come on in, grab a blob of wax and join me around the table.
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Scary Christmas Story
Posted by Jewel Allen at 11:13 PM
Labels: writing horror
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I love writing scary stories. Probably, because I love reading them. But mostly, I have a warped mind that relishes in scaring the pants off of people...
yeah.
Warped. Yes, certainly feels that way some days :-)
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