How Acclaimed Debut Horror Author Isabel Cañas Writes
The Writer Files: Writing, Productivity, Creativity, and Neuroscience
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How to Write a Horror Novel
I wanted it to be a scary book. I knew i was writing horror when i started, and i'd only ever written maybe one or two short stories in the horror jonra before. So now, writing horror is something that has forced me to be more vulnerable about what really pushes my buttons in terms of being afraid. We come into the story with beatric at the end of an 11 year a civil conflict, which was mexico's war for independence from spain. And soi decided, as many writers do, like this is a book i want to read. And so, god damn it, i guess i have to write itrude.
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