C. T. Suddeth

My 3 Favorite Writing Sayings

1. Start your story as close to the end as you possibly can.
2. Take your reader where they’re not expecting to go.
3. Find your story’s Dark Moment, the point where he/she gives up, just before their solution comes to them.

Writing for Halloween

1. Start your intrigue right away, but hold off on scary as long as you possibly can.
2. Take your reader where they’re afraid to go, where they don’t want to go.
3. Send your character to the Dark Hour of their Soul, the point where he/she gives up on his/herself and on the world.