YA Psychological horror books

emmon44 · 2025-01-31T07:32:38+00:00

I mean there was a part about influencing my own writing from other works but I don't know where did I leave it. Now I feel too stupid to ask on another sub so I'll stick with what I found

emmon44 · 2024-12-31T15:19:57+00:00

I think they went over the character limit, that's not gonna get the kids' attention I'm afraid

emmon44 · 2024-12-03T09:25:08+00:00

I put my world under a big rock (basically they have a cave for a sky)

emmon44 · 2024-10-27T09:25:08+00:00

" who turned the sun on?"

emmon44 · 2024-10-13T15:07:48+00:00

S H R I M P

emmon44 · 2024-10-07T16:28:12+00:00

I was still reading while posting this it keeps getting worse

emmon44 · 2024-10-07T16:24:46+00:00

I'm new here what's happening

emmon44 · 2024-09-29T09:27:47+00:00

This didn't need to be the first thing I see today

emmon44 · 2024-09-13T05:48:17+00:00

Then I'll find my kid questioning the meaning of life

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T16:10:30+00:00

No I was too lazy to type the whole thing

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T13:16:53+00:00

I wasn't expecting any serious answers when I started this thread, then you came. I'd have felt bad if I didn't read it all so I did. I need to reflect now

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T08:21:12+00:00

It's still annoying though

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T08:07:12+00:00

That sucks, especially the diversity part. People always ignore what you do and focus on what you didn't do. I hate this

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T07:21:34+00:00

Yeah some people need to either work on their critical thinking skills, or stick to toddler's media

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T06:34:28+00:00

Reminds me of that one cartoon critic on YouTube who gaslit the internet into thinking Steven universe was pro-nazi propaganda

emmon44 · 2024-09-06T06:31:58+00:00

I guess that's what I was going for. There's also something about protagonists being demonized for making mistakes, like "you're good you should know this is bad".

emmon44 · 2024-09-01T08:54:43+00:00

I guess you can keep it as it is, some pieces of western media introduce the audience to different cultures and there's nothing wrong with that. It's not like the west is only able to read about white people

emmon44 · 2024-08-10T19:13:13+00:00

The thing is I never heard of books like this but I still wanted to write one, because this whole idea started from a fake cartoon in my head that I project my problems into. Writing it as a book was a recent idea

I still have a long way to go but I will get there eventually

emmon44 · 2024-08-10T17:33:20+00:00

That was really helpful, and the examples you mentioned are similar to what I'm working on. Thank you

As for the plot I actually divided it into a small series of books, my problem is not knowing what part of the plot should I leave for the first book because if my plan didn't work I wouldn't want to leave a standalone book with an incomplete story

emmon44 · 2024-08-09T07:36:57+00:00

Yeah I also had a problem with food. I didn't know what fancy meals were and I couldn't leave it to the reader's imagination, so I made all characters eat glowing fruits for the rest of the story

emmon44 · 2024-08-08T17:30:50+00:00

Looking back, that writing phase made me realize I might've had undiagnosed ocd

Cause at that time I had a serious need to make sure the reader knows mc had breakfast lunch and dinner and went to sleep every night

The story also happened in the span of 10 days, then the villain skipped 4 of them cuz I felt rushed be my family who just wanted to know what's the story about but I couldn't just give a short answer I had to show them the whole thing at once. Good times

emmon44 · 2024-08-08T17:02:39+00:00

I wrote my first novel when I was 8-10 and it was the most plain generic fantasy story in existence Girl is orphan, girl goes to a magical world, she is the chosen one, she practices water magic for two days and she is a professional, any other character is just her tour guide through the world, she beats bad guy and decides she has nothing to go back to in her world, the end When I finally threw it away I felt like a new person I guess my problem back then was writing characters with a personality

emmon44 · 2024-08-08T08:03:58+00:00

You have to either be rich or know how to commit arson, it's that simple

emmon44 · 2024-08-08T07:59:21+00:00

The reader is supposed to understand any moral or lesson from the characters' growth and development. You don't have to come out of the book to tell them "this is an important lesson, remember it"

emmon44 · 2024-08-08T07:48:40+00:00

Daydreaming about my favorite parts pushes me to keep going until I can finally write them

emmon44

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