Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-1186783-20140817151538/@comment-1186783-20140820162947

I'm not sure on the number of stories. My biggest goal right now is to make sure that every story reads as a horror story in and of itself. My real concern, then, is what to do with each of the characters after their introductions. I have some idea of how they feel towards each other (Michael is seen as something of a "disappointment" to his family, because he lacks the imagination to be anything more than a killer, but this also ironically makes him the only one whose trusted by the others to not backstab them, because he doesn't have the ambition for it...there, I just gave you a spoiler). But, if I focus too much on their relationships, we lose site of the scary element: there's a family of super-powered, semi-immortal killer lunatics running around, who can use magic to make themselves undetectable!

I really can't imagine any of the protagonists of these stories would sit down to observe Michael and Peter having lunch, and discussing their feelings towards each other.