Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking? Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me. 1/

A question for poets/authors/indie publishers: would a story-in-verse consisting of 100-115ish poems and five chapters be considered a novel or a novella? Which one? Most of the poems are mid-length, with a few long/short ones. #Booksky 💙📚🩸 #Writesky #HorrorAuthor #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity

Thanks for running this!🖤 Set in 1926, Rosalyn (9) invents a game of royalty with her dormmates. Everyone needs to be in control, and stopping isn't an option; Rosalyn must be Queen. Get it: brigidsgatepress.com/product/what... 🍀👑🔨 A short story, free to read: crowcrosskeys.com/2021/05/05/o... ❄️🪶📖

In Hawthorne House, the house itself! The girls antagonise each other; in part two, Rosalyn herself could be an antagonist. In my WIP, the witch is the main antagonising force, though in the poems from the witch's POV, the main character also counts in a way, as does the cat. 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

I've found that my style tends towards poetic & fairytale-esque; I write stories & settings where the atmosphere is a disturbing ambiance that steadily increases. I focus on small details/descriptions; the way leaves blow, a patina on metal, the specific creak of a boot on wood... #HorrorWritersChat

I think the most prominent 'reality' I utilise in my writing is the assumption/systematic perpetuation that children are not people. The children I write are just as capable of emotions and are usually the narrators; children are often treated as accessories. I do the opposite. #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic historical horror and dark fantasy, usually involving children and/or supernatural elements. For my current WIP, a sapphic, gory, witchy story in verse set in the 1500s: Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Path (game) and The Witch's House (game) 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

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A question for poets/authors/indie publishers: would a story-in-verse consisting of 100-115ish poems and five chapters be considered a novel or a novella? Which one? Most of the poems are mid-length, with a few long/short ones. #Booksky 💙📚🩸 #Writesky #HorrorAuthor #HorrorCommunity #WritingCommunity

After several weeks of unrelated stress, I'm finally able to work on my 1500s novel/novella in verse, and it feels good to get back into this disturbing, sapphic, witchy horror story! I finished 'Hummingbird, Buried' today and planned the trajectory of the next three poems 🖤 #HorrorAuthor 🩸📚💙

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Extremely concerning... I will never consent to have any of my words, writing, or work used in anything involving AI. I hope for my stories to make you think, or just sit in a feeling and ruminate; the idea that people will skim-read it and get a machine to experience it for them is upsetting.

Thanks for running this, Eryn! I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly. 🍀🔨👑 www.amazon.com/What-Happene... 🖤 💙📚🩸 #HorrorWritersChat

Things begin to happen in time with a beat or clock, or precisely slightly off-beat. No in-between. #HorrorWritersChat

There's plenty, but the ones to come to mind are Samara's song from The Ring, Memory from Ib, and Dollhouses from Alice: Madness Returns. I do regularly try to capture them in my writing! #HorrorWritersChat

I match music to the story, especially since I tend to listen to music whilst editing. Stories with cyclic elements get tracks that loop easily, a sad short story gets a despondent track (eg:Jack Splatter(Alice Madness Returns)), elements may reflect things the characters hear... #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic historical horror, often w/ supernatural elements & child or non-human narrators. I listen to classical music, music-boxes, video game soundtracks; usually from Little Nightmares, Alice: Madness Returns, & horror pixel RPGs, depending on the mood!🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

It's dark now, so I'm stopping for today (and also getting some food). I've done one 1/2 poems in the last hour, which is pretty good, including one that has a really nice rhythm to it; its current title is 'Hummingbird, Buried'. Well into the final chapter now! 🖤 #HorrorSky #Booksky💙📚🩸#HorrorAuthor

I'm writing unsettling, f*cked-up witchy 'romance' poems today! Progress on my novella-in-verse is slow, but steady... If it ends up over 100 poems, is it a novel-in-verse? The music today is 'La Fille Damnee' (Cecile Corbel): www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPCX... I like the waltz quality🖤 #HorrorSky 💙📚🩸

There is no 'end' to dehumanisation aside from total oblivion. Someone or something can be pretty much endlessly dehumanised as long as there is something there in the first place, including a lack of consciousness, will, or body...The answer re: 'completion' is potentially never. #HorrorWritersChat

That's... a very broad question. I already do this in one of my WIPs; a short story collection set in Victorian London, focused around dolls and childhood. Dehumanisation is a key factor, as is the othering that comes with it and the perception (true and not) of a lack of humanity #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic historical horror, usually supernatural, often with child or inhuman narrators. My works tends to the shorter side, and I'm currently writing a story in poems. Industrial horror of the future is scarier to me, as the past is a known quantity. 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

Hiraeth (HEE-reyeth) (n.) - An intense longing for a home you can’t return to, or that never was. Used in a sentence: “And evermore, deep in his small and ancient brest, there stirred a sorrow sharp as winter wind—a hiraeth for the numinous lands of Faerie that slipt into legend many ages agone.”

It's a lovely day to reread Alice in Wonderland, eat apple strudel, and then write some horror narrative poetry (before it gets dark) 🖤 Take the time today to be kind to yourself. Take a deep breath, slow down enough to notice something small, and continue. 💙📚🩸

Thanks for running this, Eryn! I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑 brigidsgatepress.com/product/what... 💙📚🩸 #HorrorWritersChat

It's not unanimous or anything, but many of my male characters fear breaking a (genuinely made) promise, unintentionally made (or broken) or not. Doing so would show that they don't know themself as well as they think they do; it all ties back to perception of the self. #HorrorWritersChat

My characters lean into masculinity when it suits them to, & I subvert/lean into expected masculinity if doing so adds a layer to the story. My characters don't often have a binary gender! Andrew saw himself as a potential father figure for Rosalyn &co, which informed his actions #HorrorWritersChat

Hmm. There's a 'male archetype' of a character who cares deeply for others and tries to help; when a character has that, I often like to make their empathy and capacity of care their downfall (in the tragic sense; they care so much it destroys them). #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic horror & dark fantasy, usually historical and/or supernatural, and... my male characters are not treated any differently than characters of other genders? What saves or damns my characters depends on multiple different factors... 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

Thanks for running this, Mary! I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑 brigidsgatepress.com/product/what... 💙📚🩸 #HorrorWritersChat

Fruit pies, apple-spiced wine and rose tea for Rosebud, my witchy, gory, sapphic novella in verse; it uses the flowering/fruiting/decomposition of stone fruit, flowers, and berries as a central metaphor. It also features heavily in the story aside from that, a constant presence. 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

For Hawthorne House, I'm not sure -- most of the characters are children, including the ones I'd pick to answer this, and I'm not familiar with child actors. For Rosebud, my current WIP; Isabelle Fuhrman as Agnes/the witch, my antagonist and fave character -- she'd be a good fit! #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic horror, usually historical or supernatural and exploring my experiences with neurodiversity & gender. I have a strong interest in folklore & storytelling... Two films that inspire & describe my writing: Pan's Labyrinth and Let The Right One In #HorrorWritersChat

Finished 'kinder', now on to 'cage of flesh'! Yay! I really like the method I'm using to construct this novella; by having each poem inspired by a word/phrase used in the previous poem, I'm ensuring that the narrative remains cohesive. It's why I'm writing it in Twine, and it's playable/interactive!

I'm back to work on my novella in verse! Today, I'm listening to Forest Theme from 'The Path' as I detail this ...'romance' between a witch and the girl in her house. A poem's connected to the next by a selected word; currently it's 'kinder' (just done 'mouse')🫐🔪🥩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYLQ... 💙📚🩸

Working on my novella-in-verse (maybe a novel in verse?) whilst it's still light outside! The music today is 'Lost Chair' aka the main theme of The Witch's House, which is fitting given that I'm writing gory, witchy poems from the POV of my witch's familiar... 🫐🔪🥩 www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSr... 💙📚🩸

Thanks for running this, Eryn! I have a gothic horror novella set in 1926, in which 9-yr-old Rosalyn plays a make-believe game of a Royal Court with 4 other girls. All of them want to (need to) be Queen... Things escalate. Significantly.🍀🔨👑 brigidsgatepress.com/product/what... #HorrorWritersChat 💙📚🩸

I don't think many fears have been forgotten... Though many people seem to be ignoring the fear of surveillance/a lack of privacy. #HorrorWritersChat

I tend to stick to the 'old' in my writing; nature and the dark, hidden things speak to me more clearly than modern (though the latter has its place). I find it easier, interesting, and more cathartic to focus on the industrial revolution and prior to it; creativity is easier! 🖤 #HorrorWritersChat

Stories of the fae folk, due to feeling like a 'mimicry' of human but still powerful/dangerous. And the Jewish folktale that 'The Corpse Bride' gutted and inverted; the idea of my autonomy being stolen and spat on, and again after death (and being viewed as a monster for reacting) #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write short stories and novellas --primarily gothic horror, usually historical and/or supernatural. As a kid, I watched an Indiana Jones film in IMAX for the first time. I think it was crystal skull? That one scene with the ants... Yeah. I haven't rewatched it. #HorrorWritersChat

‘And still of a winter’s night, they say, when the wind is in the trees, When the moon is a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,    When the road is a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor,    A highwayman comes riding—          Riding—riding’ ~ Alfred Noyes #BookWormSat

A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...

Violet, a sentient porcelain-clockwork doll from an unpublished story is at the door. She's here to ask me to write a sequel where she gets a good ending instead. She's my favourite because she's so fun to write! or Gem, a teenage vampire from my WIP, asking 'wtf, Hadassah?!' #HorrorWritersChat

For my WIP: The Path (OST) The Witch's House Carmilla This specific piece of art: www.tumblr.com/garlicbunny/... For Hawthorne House: Grrrls (AViVA) Alice Madness Returns (OST) Promise (Silent Hill) Entomologists (GHOST) Honourable mention: Rule of Rose (which I discovered after) #HorrorWritersChat

Obviously, there's my laptop (usually), but I also like to have something relevant to the piece I'm working on (eg: flowers/bobbins/doll...). For my current project (an interconnected poetry narrative), I use Twine, a free online software used for branching narratives/CYOA! #HorrorWritersChat

Hi, I'm Hadassah! I write gothic fiction, usually historical and/or supernatural. Dream writing room would have a comfortable window seat, a view of a forest & stream, Victorian furniture, reference books, cabinets displaying porcelain dolls, butterflies/moths/beetles, old maps... #HorrorWritersChat

This is amazing! What a beautiful tribute to Hollow Knight and Hallownest!