WyrdsmithTrish

I used to live near a frog pond and I miss their music so much. Best early warning system for intruders too.

Hello! I'm from the west coast of Canada where the mountains meet the sea. I think I most resemble Angela Carter in feature blended with Clive Barker in style.
#HorrorWritersChat

A baked earth path through a green and yellow field.

The old summer roads are open again.
#willerby

I always thought it would have been the chef's kiss if he'd relit his cigar off the barrel of the gun.

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

I screamed like a hockey fan when he broke the record.

I voted for Curse of the Crimson Altar only because I've never seen it but I considered voting for Vampire Circus because it's so good! It's a great place to start, and I'm excited for next week already!

A good man did a bad thing for the right reasons. Mostly.

Okay, it was murder.
But it was to ease someone's pain.
Okay, maybe a teeny bit of vengeance too.
But it was to keep them from hurting anyone else.
Okay, it might have been mostly vengeance.
For a good cause!

#HorrorWritersChat

The house. I can't control that.

If it was something inside me, I cling to the notion that it's still me, even if it's me+entity. I think about all the times they appeal to the person, urging them to fight the whatever, and I, perhaps foolishly, believe I could.

#HorrorWritersChat

#HorrorWritersChat

I have a villain whose best quality (my favourite, anyhow) is that she has no dark arc. There is nothing which put her on this path, and she's very good at what she does. Unfortunately she died for a while so she's become quite unhinged. There are no guardrails anymore.

Hallo #HorrorWritersChat! It's been a while.
I am Trish, and I write creepy weird silly eldritch-y ghost-y stuff a lot of the time. My villain origin story would be pretty boring, I think. I'm terrible at being bad. I might be an inadvertent villain though. Perhaps I sow mayhem without knowing it?

I screamed so loud my neighbour came to check on me. 😂

Hello my horrible harpies of #HorrorWatch! What shall the first movie be for our Gothic month of April?

1️⃣ Vampire Circus
2️⃣ Curse of the Crimson Altar
3️⃣ Willard
4️⃣ The Lodgers

📊 Show results

A photo of cherry blossoms on pink background with a title of April Poetry Prompts listed as 1. Wise enough 2. Dreams are made 3. Love rich and happy 4. Borrow Cupid's wings 5. When clouds appear 6. Dangerous ends 7. Exits and entrances 8. Witty fool/Foolish wit 9. Lord of Jealousy 10. Marriage of true minds 11. Remedies in ourselves 12. Unseen and full 13. Words before blows 14. The power you have 15. The quality of mercy 16. The size of dreaming 17. Corner of the moon 18. To have seen 19. Love is blind 20. Rich as honesty 21. No such joy on earth 22. To burn bright 23. Sunshine after rain 24. Still my beating mind 25. Gaudy night 26. Deeds exceed all speech 27. A mint of phrases 28. Be great in act 29. So good a grace 30. Time shall bring to ripeness Photo credit Mi Min from Unsplash.com/@summer0180

Happy April, I made a thing.
Photo is by Mi Min from Unsplash
Prompts are random quotes from Shakespeare

I know a lot of people are boycotting Amazon, which is great, but it's hurting a lot of trans authors.

Trans authors: Drop links to your NON-AMAZON book listings/storefronts.

Cis people: Repost, boost, and, importantly, buy. Part of boycotting an evil corporation is supporting the alternatives.

Trans Day of Visibility. Protect trans folks today and every fuckin day. All the love to our trans fam, we see you, we love you. We will cut a bitch for you. 💚

"I thought we had somebody on board with a yellow belly that brought all their bad weather." I love that he transcribed what everyone said rather that just 'there was some name calling, it was a bit tense..."

💀 For certain.

They want you to feel scared and small. It's the first hex to break.

Good luck!!

Gasping and throttled, its voice made my skin crawl. I wanted to hide, to bury myself in the bedclothes, but fear kept me immobile. The words uttered in a whispery slither weren't a warning, but a reminder of a half-forgotten promise made without any consideration of consequence.
#HorrorWritersChat

I love that for her. I find delight every day in the ghost friends we made along the way.

"Why do you bother exercising? You don’t even have a body.”

“Being dead is no reason to let things go."

This is tough because unrepentant monsters are my favourite.

I do have a character in the current trilogy who was a real dick and has regrets now that he's dead. Shortsightedness is never an excuse, but there may be a slim chance for a half-assed redemption.

#HorrorWritersChat

Exactly! The best is when someone reads what I wrote and tells me how much they enjoyed the callback to chapter 4 which I added in chapter 25, and it's a delightful surprise to us both.

The scariest hardest thing I've ever written is the stuff that gets closest to personal and to true. Vulnerability is terrifying and necessary.
Though the first time I murdered a character I really cared about was really difficult and I had to go for a walk afterwards.

#HorrorWritersChat

Hello #HorrorWritersChat! My name is Trish and I write horror that doesn't always feel like horror, but when it does, it does. I like it weird, dark, and fun, with a bit of sizzle on the side.

I am definitely a pantser to the extent that I often have no idea what's happening until it does.

Image shows creepy figures behind a curtain. All text is in the post.

It's today, people! My turn this week to host the #HorrorWritersChat.

Four questions about you and your horror work. 7pm UK time every Wednesday, that's 2pm Eastern for those in North America.

Great list. A friend and I were talking the other day about how Requiem for a Dream is unadulterated horror. And fun fact about me! I asked my mom to rent Watership Down to watch at my 6th birthday party because cartoon about bunnies! A dozen traumatized 6 year olds made for a memorable birthday.