Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25114042-20140702033104/@comment-25558572-20140702051611

Sorry, but it's quite stupid.

While there are viable motives for a person to be killed, there's no conceivable reason to hang someone by their own intestines from anywhere. It would actually be scarier if the mother was found dead with just a gunshot wound or two because that is far more believable and also easier to picture.

Never try to use gore as THE shock factor. While you can and should include it in situations that call for it (like someone's hand being lopped off by a papercutter), gore alone is weak and cliched in addition to unbelivable. Don't use it until you have a solid plot and characters going, and when the time arises, don't make the gore scenes long. Do give us a good, clear image, though. (Look at pictures of organs if you have to. :p)