Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140401205802/@comment-4832646-20140406182935

CreepyGuy2033 wrote: Princess Callie wrote: CreepyGuy2033 wrote: Princess Callie wrote: You don't NEED Caps Lock. I'm seriously starting to fail to see your reasoning. Both examples you've provided, the first one has been better. The second one just gives me a headache.

How many horror novels do you read where the author uses Caps Lock? I've not read many. Example: Getrude Atherton's The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number uses no Caps. Not one. Still, there's shouting and confusion on Morton Blaire's part when deciding whether he should kill the girl by refusing the morphine or not. Yea,but scare will be calm.We want to SCARE THE SH*T OUT OF US! Usually I don't comment on someone's writing abilities in a forum, but please, for god's sake, put a space after your punctuation.

There is no scare in Caps. The common mistake made is that Caps jump out at you. They don't. They're annoying. They have no effect. Referencing the story above, it still provides a feeling and draws the reader into the story without using caps. Creeping someone out is no different. Caps are like horror games. They aren't scary, but they made you into the shock. We don't want nor need stories that are pure shock value. That doesn't make it good. And thank you for putting the spaces after your punctuation.

Caps don't provide any form of shock nor scare, and we aren't looking to be shocked in the first place. We're looking to be unnerved. We want the feeling of "something's wrong here." Not "Zomg!!! I'm scared!!!"