r/WritersOfHorror • u/leemurthexvi • 1d ago

I'm build different

I've noticed all the writing books I follow share their stories in text. However I rarely can find myself the patience to read something unless it really grips me. I read almost every book I know I read as a audio book because despite being a good storyteller I have dyslexia and reading/writing is a pain. So most of my stories I share through audio clips. I do that because it is how I read and I am broken

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u/Iron-Night 1d ago edited 1d ago

I mean you might see it as a weakness but I see it as potential strength, even some of the best horror stories take a good while to nail down and be effectively scary while grabbing your attention. I think the strength is you need more time on a horror story and that's Completly fine because you can always go back and edit it to be more effective than It was before, Trust me I've had a horror story flop until I edited it and when I did it was far more successful, don't give up and take that extra time as an advantage to write down ideas and after you do you can go back through it and clean it up so it's a nice read. The key is how much thought and care you put into it and you need to know what type of story you want to tell.

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u/leemurthexvi 22h ago

I try to turn it into a advantage at least in a few ways. I have a high vocabulary which with text to speech speech to text apps helps a lot. My work has a very mythological feel to it. Which mythology is piece together stories and often created from some level of mispronunciation. So I'll often get inspiration from the spellings or use several different stories about the same place cutting out the parts I don't like and trying to figure out how to peace the rest together to create a better story.

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u/allthecoffeesDP 21h ago

Audiodrama and podcasts

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u/leemurthexvi 21h ago

My world is kinda of furry GOT so likely when I get it cleaned up sometimes that that is what it will become