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How to Horror: Checking everything works!!

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Published: Oct 21, 2015

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`How to Horror: Checking everything works!!`

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Any copyrighted content used in this review is used under the "Fair Use" law for commentary and Criticism. The following is simply a louse suggest on how to use horror themes and is by no way a guide line which must be followed at all costs, there are always variables! Introduction I just got the idear for this How To after writing this "OC review: Hornbrood", which, if you know me personally, I regret finishing. When looking over the above OC I noticed that the OC didn't rearly fit its environment, which can rearly throw a charter and the whole idear off. So, based on some decisions with fellow creators, from artists to writers, here's a How To on cross checking and ensuring all the details of your OC work together smoothly. In short, this is how to put a bow on your OC! PS, sorry I've been inactive for so long, not responding to messages and the like. I moved to uni/collage a month back and I haven't had time to look at OCs and respond to your messages. The facts [link] Incase no one here knows I do own a few series, my most famous being "the starvation of angels", which is now almost completed though it's still getting rave reviews. Now luck had little to do with what I earned (don't worry, I'll get out my own ass soon), a lot of my achievement can be linked to the cross checking and scrutinising the story went under before its release. Though it took the best part of five months the first part managed to get itself published on a famous sight while the second is now waiting to be submitted. Know this, you can't just fart an OC out over night, this stuff takes time!! When making a story, or OC, it's incredibly important to check all the pieces hang together correctly. Put as simply as I can, answer all your questions and know what when people come to nit pick, like myself, you can impress the hell out of them with an incredibly grounded and thought through work~ Know you're concepts inside out! How to apply designe First thing to do is check the design of the OC against their backstory and setting, for example, if you're OC had a tragic backstory involving them getting abused by.. butterflies then they'd probably reflect that in their design though a lack of butterflies; similarly, if they live/ed in a setting taking place 100 years ago they proudly wouldn't have hair extensions, highlights or converse. If your OC lives in a particular environment make sure they don't stick out like a sore thumb (unless that's the point of the OC, but I'll get onto that later). Like I said in my How to Horror: Clothing, Colours and Designs, dress your charters correctly. If they live someone cold give them warm cloths, so on, so forth (read that how to if you want more information on the whole thing). Speaking for myself in the above mentioned creepypasta series one of the charters was a shy, mentally disturbed teen with a past of self harming; he also had a rare skin condition meaning it was hard for him to go outside without causing himself injury. To reflect this he adorns long louse clothing to cover his scared arms and to protect himself against sunlight. He tends to wear a blank or deeply saddened expression and is always distant. Because of this he fits his own charter description design wise! Aspects of the charters past should be seen in the design seen now, their personalities should also be seen in the look they have~ Now about the OCs who stand out. Eccentric charters can throw this rule out of the window as, by nature, they should just wear what they want, when they want, now matter how mad it may be. They could also hid their true selves (this applies for all kinds of OCs btw) under a metaphorical mask. can you feel the sas? story I'm a gonna used Hornblood, by DivineDoe as an example in this next section since I was inspired to write this after completed the review on her charter (I saw you did some edits, good on you for that). HB (Hornblood) is a shapeshifting chocolate deer who lives in a forest who was created after a familiar of a white witch was killed by a young woman (said young woman also gouged the which eyes out). The familiar (deer) was skinned and the pelt later stolen by a different little girl who worked at a chocolate shop. She spilt some chocolate on the deer skin and was fired and then died from hypothermia in the forest. The deep skin (I guesses) came back to life and, using the girls body as a host, became the Hornblood! [It was so hard to find this story btw Origins of Hornbrood] Now, though I guesses this could work in a horror context, a few things just don't line up. The amendment of these traits could massively improve the charter as a whole. Case in point, the act of which hunting was huge in the late seventeenth century but died down heavy after this meaning we can probably presume that the story took place about three hundred years ago since a woman in the story is accused of being a witch. Chocolate on the other hand only rearly got to amerce two hundred years ago after the taxes on such items was lowered (I'm presuming the story takes place in the US) but even then it was a luxury item for the rich. Meaning this story either takes in a rich forest retreat town with an outdated which burning gang OR it's a town trapped in a chocolate based time bubble? Attitudinally white witches tend have non-assertive familiars (so demons in the form of deers, but nice demons) and familiars are presently dismissed once their master dies. As we can all see the times don't rearly match up here, as well as the which/families relationship (there's a lot more I could say about this story but this is just an example). Because of this the story's foundations are broken and can be picked apart by ass holes like me. If the story didn't involve chocolate and the time stamps that brings this story could work and be more believable as a whole! age Poor ageing tends to be one of my biggest peeves. People tend to make charters two young for setting they are in. If your OC is a doctor they must be over 24 years old otherwise they'd still be in med school; if your OC is a detective they must be over 25 years old to grant them enough time to get to their current position and pass all there policing tests! I can't make this more clear, do your reading! Any aspect you want to use in your stories/charters must be read up on! Stupidly young OCs almost instantly get dismissed by readers and written off as implausible. If in bought, age them up! look, these people have ages! What to avoid OC creation takes time. The worst thing you can do is just stop improving on them. When you're working on a charter it's not bad to keep editing them, it's a must do! When you make an OC don't force a story, design, personality onto them, make sure you calculate and read up on all of the sconce matter you need to! Regardlessness of your struggles, always stick with it! Who knows, one day you could have one hella sweet OC on your hands~ Where to learn more GOOGLE Closer Kind of short but what can you do; I'm currently ever overwhelmed with work so ya... life is fun