Folks, you're going to like it in here

[Nostalgiascape]

We're talking solo stories to multi member stories or fan fics. We're talking poetry poetry poetry. We're talking RPG's at their most basic form. This is a creative writers bedlam. I will moderate here, but no worries. I'm a pretty cool cat. Just common sense stuff applies rules wise as well as previously established forum rules by the big pumpkin himself.

[HalloweenDot]

We're talking solo stories to multi member stories or fan fics. We're talking poetry poetry poetry. We're talking RPG's at their most basic form. This is a creative writers bedlam. I will moderate here, but no worries. I'm a pretty cool cat. Just common sense stuff applies rules wise as well as previously established forum rules by the big pumpkin himself.

We can create separate sections as needed for the different topics.

[Nostalgiascape]

Cool.

So far as I am thinking, the three topics I can think of off hand are

Solo Stories
Multi Participation Stories
&
Poetry

[Haunted Horseman]

Hi Nos, long time no talk. It has been quite a while since I've been here, but I love your idea for the writings section. Hope you are doing well.
Best Wishes
HH

[Ghost]

Awesome idea Lots of horror fans out there would love to have their work out in the open. Everyone has a little horrific instinct in us.

[HalloweenDot]

It should be a good thing!

Awesome idea Lots of horror fans out there would love to have their work out in the open. Everyone has a little horrific instinct in us.

[Nostalgiascape]

Awesome idea Lots of horror fans out there would love to have their work out in the open. Everyone has a little horrific instinct in us.

I figure to have your creative works seen, what better place than a website called Halloween.com? Prime real estate for the creative and the creepy. And yes, within each of us dwells some degree of darkness.

[Pumpkin_Man]

I have slowly but surely been banging out the saga of "BRIANWOOD MANOR," but it's been slow going. Chap 5 is up, and I am hoping to have chap 6 done before the weekend or early next week. I will warn you, that chap 5 is a bit gross, and chap 6 is going to be a bit intense for "younger viewers." I think "BRIANWOOD MANOR" is more suited for teenagers and young adults.

Mike

[Nostalgiascape]

Well thanks for the forewarning. Perhaps add a small caution in your thread title. Btw PumpkinMan, Im having fun with you in the one multi participation story. The other one I began looks like i'm going to be playing poker alone, lol. But I think it has potential

[Pumpkin_Man]

Nastalgia scape, I did add something bo both multi participation stories, but I did have to think about the VanRechtien Asylum story a little. That's going to be a tough egg to crack as your scenario leave little room for going off on tangients. The other story, however, is a little more free and easy, but I think I was able to contribute to both of them. Your VanRechtien Asylum story is a bit more of a challenge, and I think between the two of us, and perhaps with a few other contributions,it could make for a pretty creepy story. I sort of took it in a direction of a non supernatural horror story, which is not typical of me. Usualy my horror stories involve the supernatural, case in point Brianwood Manor. But I think this is going to work.

Mike

[Nostalgiascape]

I think The Asylum story shows wide open possibilities. I crack eggs like that a lot. Just have to think, what don't we know about the town, it's people, the asylum itself, and the rich and powerful willing to look the other way. And so far as its written in a mysterious way, there is always the possibility for supernatural entry into the novel. Look how long the goth soap Dark Shadows make people wonder on the edge of their seats about the possibility of supernatural before finally entering it into the fray. Also, notice how I personalize the characters, make them like us, like people you may know. If you make the normal human interaction believable and possibly even endearing, then the horrific happening to some of them becomes all the more scary. Like it happened to a friend of yours only on a smaller scale.

[Pumpkin_Man]

Actualy as egotistical as it may sound, I sort of inserted myself into the Asylum story. Biker Jake is a guy a lot like me, a profession photographer who rides a Harley, and goes on 'haunted road trips,' and looking for that one 'big break" in photography.

That's more or less what I also did with Brianwood Manor. The protagonist is a Harley riding photographer who loves creepy old houses. I tent to write better that way IMHO. "Brianwood Manor" is also written from the 1st person point of view, as though the protagonist is actualy relating the story directly to the reader. I don't t hink that's the most popular way to write, but some of the best novels and short stories I've ever read were written from the 1st person pointof view. I did not do that in the Asylum story or any of the other multiple participation stories, though.

Mike

[Pumpkin_Man]

Actualy I need to make a correction. I did not insert myself into the Asylum multiple participation story. I inserted myself into the Crowley story.

Mike

[Ghostwriter1983]

Hello:

Its wonderful this forum offers supernatural poetry as well as stories. I started out writing poetry before I got brave enough to try my hand at stories and then books.

I hope those poems I post will be enjoyed.

Raymond