Frank Miller's gonna adapt Raymond Chandler's TROUBLE IS MY BUSINESS for Clive Owen!
A haunting tale from the king of horror - Diversions:
Many of the films that borrow from the works of Stephen King are hit or miss. Secret Window, Dreamcatcher, Hearts in Atlantis and The Green Mile are just some of the more recent ones, but only the last one could be considered a real success. The premise of 1408 doesn't make it stand out special amongst the rest: a story about an author who investigates haunted hotels and then finally finds a haunted one feels like an unoriginal clich�. But thanks in part to the always enjoyable performances of John Cusack (The Contract) and Samuel L. Jackson (Home of the Brave), as well as a rather fresh take on an old subject, 1408 is a must-see for horror fans and a quality film all around.
Are the guys who come up with porno movie titles really writers? Maybe not, but these are pretty inventive I think.
Submission Guidelines: "WHAT WE WANT:
We are looking for horror stories with a solid plot, strong character development, and attention to detail. Stories should also grab the reader’s attention quickly and hold it until the end. Although a good story can include gore, we don’t want gore for gore’s sake.
We are looking for great horror stories. Stories can be about monsters, the paranormal, serial killers, or anything else that evokes fear.
Science fiction, mystery, western, or fantasy elements are acceptable, however, there should be no doubt the story is horror.
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There is a problem here. You start the story and wonder, before you get to the end of the first paragraph why you are reading it. Fiction writers and editors forget that in most cases, the people who publish small zines are unknown. They forget this completely. People have a reason to continue reading through a boring first paragraph if they know and like the author, but nobody knows some guy publishing in Underground Voices for the first time. If the story does not hold you, why bother reading? Is it that there is so little stuff in the world to read? Is it merely a matter of being charitable to a writer-hobbyist? Why publish something that starts out with words that grab hold of the reader's senses?
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Everybody wants some kind of unique content that you can't find anywhere else. The problem for a freelance writer, is that you are a freelance writer, you write for different magazines with different aesthetics, different needs. It's not so much about being able to write in different voices for different editors as it is trying to get what you have written to sound like something that the editor has already accepted.
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Oshkosh Northwestern - Author Answers: Leisurely fiction prose harder than newswriting: "My background in journalism has helped me as a fiction writer because I've seen a lot of things that are potential fodder for fiction—the murder of a couple of fellow reporters (one was killed by a local businessman, another by Russian troops in Afghanistan), the bank fraud trial of one of Arizona's governors, the AZSCAM law-enforcement sting operation, missing-heir cases, etc. But I've had a hard time switching from the quick, punchy rhythms of newswriting to the long, leisurely rhythms of the novel. Fiction for me definitely is much harder than journalism."
