1. How do authors hook and hold readers?
Authors usually hook readers by making them very interesting and suspensful, And to hold there readers they usually have a clif hanger of the story to make them want to keep reading and never wanting to put the book down.
2. How do writers persuade their readers?
When writers write there books, they usually persuade their readers by, keeping it very interesting and exciting and making there next book always better than the one before.
3. What is the relationship between fiction and truth?
Truth goes deeper than fact. Truth can transcend both fiction and fact. Fiction can express truth as effectively as fact and sometimes better.
For example. a great novel such as Silas Marner can reveal truths about the human heart that are rarely found in nonfiction writings.
However, the story in a novel or work of fiction is not something that really happened, or it did not happen in the way it is told in the story. It is not true in that sense.
4. What truths are communicated best through a specific genre?
Truths are best communicated through genres like horror fiction and love.
my questions;
5. What is the definition of the horror fiction genre& what kinds of books fall in this genre?
Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience.
7. Who in the past was a popular author of this genre? Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels, two short story collections, and over one hundred published stories in the Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller genres. He graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Concentration. He currently serves as a professor of English and coordinator of creative activities at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Waggoner also teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania, in an innovative low-residency Master of Fine Arts degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.
8. What are the characteristics to write a good horror book?
The more different you make your story, the more it will appeal to publishers and readers.You want to gve them a goal and throw obstacle after obstacle at them. If you don't care about your characters, your readers certainly won't, and will discard your story with a weary yawn! There is nothing worse than shallow, cardboard characters in a story.
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Topic Exploration for: 2/3/10
Here is a link for all the Authors that write this genre.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_horror_fiction_writers
Here are a few links to the websites I was reading.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_fiction
- http://www.horror.org/horror-is.htm
-http://horror.fictionfactor.com/-- This is the best! has an extra link of tons of articles.
*Questions:
1. How do authors hook and hold readers?Authors usually hook readers by making them very interesting and suspensful, And to hold there readers they usually have a clif hanger of the story to make them want to keep reading and never wanting to put the book down.
2. How do writers persuade their readers?
When writers write there books, they usually persuade their readers by, keeping it very interesting and exciting and making there next book always better than the one before.
3. What is the relationship between fiction and truth?
Truth goes deeper than fact. Truth can transcend both fiction and fact. Fiction can express truth as effectively as fact and sometimes better.
For example. a great novel such as Silas Marner can reveal truths about the human heart that are rarely found in nonfiction writings.
However, the story in a novel or work of fiction is not something that really happened, or it did not happen in the way it is told in the story. It is not true in that sense.
4. What truths are communicated best through a specific genre?
Truths are best communicated through genres like horror fiction and love.
my questions;
5. What is the definition of the horror fiction genre& what kinds of books fall in this genre?Horror fiction is fiction in any medium intended to scare, unsettle, or horrify the audience. Historically, the cause of the "horror" experience.
6.What are some types of books that fall into this genre?
http://www.awardannals.com/wiki/American_Godshttp://www.awardannals.com/wiki/Honor_roll:International_Horror_Guild_Award_for_Nonfiction
7. Who in the past was a popular author of this genre?
Tim Waggoner is the author of numerous novels, two short story collections, and over one hundred published stories in the Fantasy, Horror, and Thriller genres. He graduated from Wright State University in 1989 with a Master of Arts in English with a Creative Writing Concentration. He currently serves as a professor of English and coordinator of creative activities at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio. Waggoner also teaches creative writing at Seton Hill University, Pennsylvania, in an innovative low-residency Master of Fine Arts degree program in Writing Popular Fiction.
also Stephen King.. http://www.stephenking.com/the_author.html
8. What are the characteristics to write a good horror book?
The more different you make your story, the more it will appeal to publishers and readers.You want to gve them a goal and throw obstacle after obstacle at them. If you don't care about your characters, your readers certainly won't, and will discard your story with a weary yawn! There is nothing worse than shallow, cardboard characters in a story.