I feel like I’m rapidly coming to the end of the road in regards to this series. Seems like I’ve got a choice to make - bring it to its logical end, shortly, (there will be something else for you paid folks, don’t worry), and keep it firmly rooted in my experiences and thoughts, or pad it out with quotes and references to other works on the subject, regurgitating ideas people have already written about.
That’s really what stood in the way of fleshing this thing out and writing it for so long: The fear that I don’t have many original thoughts on the subject. I have only my personal experiences, my opinions, and that's it. When I think of nonfiction works analyzing horror, I can think of a ton of books which have already done it much better than I could. The best I can offer is my personal experiences with the subject. That'll come out to a slim 30K manuscript, but I'd rather it be on the slim side and real, rather than be bloated and padded with re-used quotes from other folks.
So, where do I go from here?
Let’s talk about how I almost ditched the horror genre entirely, about five or six years ago.
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