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    How to set up story settings? And more.

    Yes, the best advice is just to write what you feel. Start at the beginning, whatever that may be, and as soon as you've written the first line, hopefully the rest will just flow. When it does, go with it to see where it takes you.
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    Stephen King: The Stand

    Especially the complete and uncut edition.
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    Looking for new Horror read

    Clive Barker, Dean Koontz, Dan Simmons, Joe R Lansdale, Shirley Jackson, Algernon Blackwood, Richard Matheson and H. P. Lovecraft should see you through.
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    Nightmare on Elm Street Series

    The three so far are by: Christa Faust, David Bishop and Tim Waggoner
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    Looking for violence!

    I have to agree with Øystein about Necro Publications. Check out The Preserve by Patrick Lestewka, which is published by them. Great book.
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    Recommendations?

    The first one that comes to mind is: The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson. Originally published in 1959, it's a classic and one of the best haunted house stories written.
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    A few questions about writing

    I used to write without plotting, but now I plot. By plotting I can roughly work out what happens in each chapter (I can change the story as I go along though if something crops up that I hadn't thought about in the initial stages, so it's not fixed in stone). By plotting, I know if I've got...
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    Editing...

    Quite the opposite. When I go back and read some things that I put away for months at a time, I can't even remember writing them. It makes it easier to spot mistakes, and also to imagine different ideas for the story that didn't arise when I first wrote it. If a character has faults, or isn't...
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    Editing...

    I like to leave it as long as possible before going back and editing something, that way I read it with fresh eyes, so to speak. And talking of speaking, that's when I also read it aloud, which usually helps me spot mistakes. Things often sound right in my head, but when said aloud, the mistakes...
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    So you want to publish a book?

    It was the first line of the article that spurred my comment: 'The first rule of getting a book published is to avoid writing a book. Whoa, what the hell are we talking about? Yes, it's very counterintuitive, but the main goal of anyone who wants to publish a book is to land a literary agent...
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    So you want to publish a book?

    If only it was that easy ... :(
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    Any decent TV shows?

    Hey, I'm just taking an educated guess. I hope I'm wrong, as I'd like some answers.
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    Any decent TV shows?

    You mean I have to wait that long. And don't tell me, there's no resolution then either, which sets it up for series 2. ;)
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    Any decent TV shows?

    Here in the UK, we're about a third of the way through Lost. While it's well filmed, the lack of resolution to every episide is becoming a little tiresome. I'm looking forward to the second series of The 4400, which airs later this month. Another interesting program that has just started series...
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    Top 5 horror writers

    There is no way to filter out the horror authors you see on the bookshelves, King, Koontz etc. They were put there because people like their books and they write well. If that wasn't the case, people wouldn't buy them. Anyway, my top five, in no particular order are: Clive Barker Graham...
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    Best book to movie?

    IMO, Misery was nowhere near as good as the book, which was a lot darker.
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    Best book to movie?

    I liked the translations of Barkers books: T'he Hellbound Heart' filmed as 'Hellraiser' and 'Cabal' filmed as 'Nightbreed'. Most other times I prefer to read the book than see the film.
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    Richard Laymon

    If I remember right from memory, the cannibals ("trolls") in Night in the Lonesome October live in a tunnel under the road. It is a good book.
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    Anyone read any James Herbert recently?

    I read Once, but don't think it compared with his earlier work.
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    Mystery - Horror

    It's a very grey area between the two genres. But as horror is often frowned upon, more publishers would probably rather label a book a mystery rather than horror so as not to deter possible buyers. The same goes for thrillers. To me, Thomas Harris writes horror, to the publishers he's a...
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