Before you make your next bit of spooky horror #fiction, READ THIS! ⚰️

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The most important thing when making horror fiction is...to make sure that your idea is EXCITING. It literally needs to feel like you are buzzed about it. If you can't rave about the fiction idea to one person, how do you expect to rave about it when it's finished to thousands or millions?  

This is where vulnerability plays a big part in sharing ideas, I know how hard it can feel to express fiction ideas. So, find a way to express your fiction ideas in the easiest way possible. Some initial ideas:make a blog post, tell a family member, comment on a social media community group. There's tonnes of great places online to share ideas, and here's the thing: Never be afraid to share you work, even if you are worried someone might steal it or it might lose its impact. 

You need to be brave and get the idea reviewed, before going full charge into writing a full manuscript or finished fiction piece. Reviewing stories and ideas Ever heard of MVP? The minimal viable product. This is how we should view fiction ideas. Not as finished documents, or first drafts. But the minimum viable effort to get your ideas across and reviewed. The sooner the idea gets reviewed, the easier it is to make changes now (rather then down the editing line).

Trust me, you don't want to be spending months working on something only to reveal to people and they hate it. Some ways to express ideas: Idea boards, mindmaps, moodboards, 1 page outlines... 

Receiving feedback can feel tough, but you need to be incredibly proud that you have got the idea out there. It now exists! Even if its in the mind of just a single family member, its no longer YOUR PRECIOUSSSSS! 

This freedom comes with responsibility, and the feedback you get becomes your roadmap. Learn from it. Even if you think they are wrong, you need to use it. If the feedback is ugly, you can turn each negative into a positive immediately, take notes from it, and review why you think its ugly. The bottom line here is that first ideas, are exciting because they are limitless.

 But fiction is limited to its form, and that is your mission as a maker. To make the intangible, tangible. Ideas are everything. Repeat the review process as often as possible, be as discreet as you want. But nothing exists in a vacuum. The sooner you get ideas reviewed, the better the idea will evolve into. Stay tuned for more fiction tidbits!

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