{"id":283,"date":"2021-06-25T11:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2021-06-25T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T11:49:13","slug":"where-does-the-terror-take-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/25\/where-does-the-terror-take-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Where does the terror take you?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When writing horror or thriller types of books, I like to ask this very question to myself. Where does the terror take me? I ask this so I can get a better idea of my writing and write something that moves from one point to the next, bringing in some sort of terror or excitement to the reader. I feel for my writing, this is an important part to make a novel terrifying yet not overwhelmingly so. I guess what I am saying is that asking this kind of question allows for a writer to see if what they are doing goes where they desire it to go and not go too far too fast or end up being too much for a reader. I do think it is important for us writers to ask certain questions to help us write the book we have in our mind and make it great.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What are the kinds of questions you ask yourself? I would love to hear them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-1 is-cropped\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" src=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hotel-1640487_640.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"284\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hotel-1640487_640.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/?attachment_id=284\" class=\"wp-image-284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hotel-1640487_640.jpg 640w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hotel-1640487_640-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/hotel-1640487_640-210x118.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When writing horror or thriller types of books, I like to ask this very question to myself. Where does the terror take me? I ask this so I can get a better idea of my writing and write something that moves from one point to the next, bringing in some sort of terror or excitement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xavier-black.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}