Brandon Scott's Blog

Let’s compare two scenes. I will not use any additional language trickery to make one better than the other. I don’t want to taint the results.

Hung there after fights,Against horrible beasts,The sword made of steel and stained blood,

I’ve been a professional writer for a while now. It’s been long enough that I would need to do serious mental calculations to work out the exact time. But, even and especially as you get deeper into this, there’s no reason to ever stop learning new writing techniques.

If we could see the full brunt of the universe,If we could comprehend the endlessness of it,Would you be willing to fight against it?

How much do you value your bones?He asked it,And now I think hard,If I want to have my bones,

George picked up a can when he felt the soft static in the air. The key was under one of these; he was certain he’d find it. It had only been an hour since the last time he’d needed it—surely even he wouldn’t misplace it so easily.

In my continuing studies of the horror genre, I noticed a method of creating scares for a first-person perspective. And that’s cool because I considered it a harder way of doing horror in certain cases.