Hey there you! Did you get scared for a second?....No?....How could you? Well I think you should know that I wasn't afraid of it either. I mean look at it. It's just so cute. I am sure your wondering why I asked that silly question. It was only because I was "hired" by Mr. T to be an author of a Haunted Story. Of course I was excited..............No I wasn't really. Let me be the first to say that I feel as if scary stories, scary movies...just ANYTHING SCARY isn't very interesting to me. For example, I watched this movie called "One Missed Call" starring Halle Berry. I love her to death but I seriously just found the movie really pathetic. It takes a lot to get me scared because obviously I'm just such a brave soul.
So as the very great author I am, I would definitely get some ideas from other amazing authors in order to find out how to make my work even better. As a class, we read this short story called "The Fall of The House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe. This story alone gave me all sorts of ideas to execute. The five most amazing techniques Poe used in his story were: his use of figurative language, his visual of the haunted mansion through imagery, his descriptive setting, his amazing suspenseful attributes and last but not least his use of questions.
Now I know your asking "How would you incorporate this in your story?" Lucky for you, I will give you a little insight on this. Well first I will use his incredible technique of figurative language. From similes, to metaphors, to symbolism and anything else....THEY WERE JUST ALL INCREDIBLE. I would definitely like to add in some personification as well to create some sort of suspense considering that the story is haunted.
Second, I would definitely include some really, really, really scary visuals through imagery. What's a haunted story without a scary image?.......Uhhhhh a story. Duh! How else could you be frightened in a haunted story? Diction is a very good factor when executing this. Descriptive detail is very important when creating a story....a haunted one at that.
This leads us to my third choice, a descriptive but dark setting. NOW THIS IS AN IMPORTANT FACTOR! Let's just say if I were to write this story on a Sunny Day would you think at any time it would be scary? I mean it could possibly be scary just depending on how I put it together but most of the time it wouldn't. Personally, I would think giving the setting a bit of a dark, dull and deathly outlook to it just as Poe did within his story. Maybe add a little suspense to it by saying that the area is "literally in the middle of no where".
Hey, it fits right in to my next choice which is creating suspense. This was one of Poe's very effective ideas. Can I honestly say that I was pretty creeped out the whole time. I mean who couldn't have been pretty creeped out. Maybe I am just easily afraid of crazy stuff like this. My biggest thing would probably be, as I said before, personifying certain objects or things. What better way to create suspense then to humanize un-animated objects to spice things up a bit. Ehh...Ehh....ok moving on.
Last but not least, I would finally add the famous one of all time, QUESTIONS. You can always make a story more frightening and curious by making the readers think. If you read at the end of the story, Poe uses questions in order to determine if the reader's believe if the house was even real or not. I personally was a little upset about that because now he made me question a lot of things. But at the same time he did such a phenomenal job with keeping me tuned in to the story.
That's all the time I have left. I know that's a sad story. My fingers are cramping though. Hopefully one day I actually decide to write one of these kinds of stories and I could be as good as Poe.
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