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What Makes a Writer? A Change in Perspective
The other day, I was watching Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (a classic, if you haven’t seen it) with my daughter, and one quote stood...

Zoie Dawson
2 days ago5 min read
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The Broken Swan
It was dark. That much she knew. The blindfold over her eyes had slipped long ago, back when the yellow light slipped through the thin...

Zoie Dawson
May 57 min read
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Mary Shelley: The Mother of Monsters
When you think of horror, you think of the classic monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein’s creature, and the Mummy. But unlike the others,...

Zoie Dawson
May 52 min read
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Shirley Jackson: The Quiet Matriarch of Madness
When people talk about horror, they talk about blood. Guts. Gore. They talk about Stephen King and Clive Barker and The Exorcist . What...

Zoie Dawson
May 53 min read
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Is it "the end?" Letting evil continue past your conclusion
We’ve all seen it: the haunted house is burned down, the killer is dead, the sun rises. Everything’s fine. Except… it’s not. Because good...

Zoie Dawson
May 52 min read
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Writing effective Horror dialogue
In horror, truth is rarely clean—and neither is the way it's spoken. When something’s wrong, people don’t speak in paragraphs . They...

Zoie Dawson
May 52 min read
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Why the Best Horror Stays Hidden
There’s a reason why your heart pounds when the lights flicker, why silence after a scream feels worse than the scream itself, and why we...

Zoie Dawson
May 52 min read
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