User blog comment:DeathSoul996/I need some Ideas/@comment-1631480-20140423215134

Okay, one thing I found with a lot of newbies that try to write pastas is that they end up being boring. Never be afraid that your story might be too weird or 'out there'. The thing with horror is that a lot of people focus too much on trying to make it scary, and end up ignoring everything else. It falls flat. If you look at famous horrors such as Silent Hill, you might think 'what would the silent hill plot be like if it was a romanic comedy?', techichally it could be many different genres, but decided to go down the horror path. So what I'm trying to say is that don't focus too much on the genre, but rather just try to create an interesting concept and execute it well. The scary comes later.

Always ask 'what if?'. As in, if you wanted to create an antagonist who was a serial killer (or something cliche), you might think it was a little boring of a concept. But what if you made him/her blind? what if they were paralysed and wheelchair bound? How would they kill? You can go as deep into this concept as you want.

Also, read. Read a lot. I never knew how much this helped me before, but fairly recently I started reading more and it works. It doesn't matter the genre, anything can be scary. It just depends how you execute it.