A Spooky Realization

Wait, what? Ghost stories are supposed to be eerie? Maybe even scary? Why weren’t we told this at the beginning!

We kid. Sorta. We’ve been happily getting to know the characters and exploring the plot and devising the physics engine that will run the whole thing, and not worrying too much about genre conventions. It is coming along great, we gotta say. It’s just that every couple of conversations, one of us will point out that our goal when we set off was to “write a ghost story,” and remind us that there’ll be an expectation of more than just alluding to the occasional spectral visage in the fog.

So we’re putting more focus on the atmosphere for a while. The story will be a Rune Skelley tale first and foremost, and a ghost story also. This is no different from the approach we’ve always taken with science fiction, but we never seemed to need reminders about putting in enough sci-fi.

We’re also upping the amount of horror in our diet. We’ve never really gone in for the slasher stuff or heavy gore, but there’s so much great material out there with a more cerebral take. Thinky can still be scary!

A writing partner is someone to hold your hand during the scary parts.