User blog:A-Lord-Over-Birds/Well, this is interesting.

I'm not a horror writer.

Don't get me wrong - I love creepypastas, and I love horror movies and things (the 80s and 90s had the best horror movies IMO; I love the 80s in general). But I cannot, for the life of me, create a feeling of suspense.

I like writing in general. I have a story called Branch on fictionpress.com, about a team of time travelling refugees from 2073, one of whom has taken it upon himself to become the assassin of the president in the past (this is an alternate universe, countries are still around but a lot of things are different). I'm not going to go give away the entire plot, but let's just say there are exploding tanks.

That should attract the general viewing base of SpikeTV.

My latest idea, however, has come from the depths of a dream I had, and while the story itself is pretty engrossing (I wrote 34 pages before I wondered what the hell I was doing up at 4 AM listening to a Radiohead album and writing a horror story), I'm afraid that I don't have that touch of creepy. Eyeless figures, sure, freaky murder weapons, sure, cold cases, sure, unconventional main character, sure, abandoned hospitals, sure, psychopaths, sure, ghosts, sure - it goes on and on. But I don't have that sense of making things creepy.

Speaking of creepy, something's on my sunporch/workshop, making noises. I think it's the click of my pants buttons against the washing machine door, but I dunno. I'll probably die without finishing this blog post.

Okay, I haven't died.

So...yeah. I'm just terribly concerned that my writing skills are subpar. Which is sad, because I was thinking about getting Branch published when it's done. Everyone I've talked to (IRL) likes it.

/post because I'm tired of this