Zathoth

World building isnt avoiding writers block... Not working on your writing is avoiding writers block.

You should write them, that may get them to quiet down. If not you at least wrote something. You will nail this interview, you will nail this interview so hard the nail will make the one who pulls it out the king of england.

You see I always thought that was an odd name for his wife Red works, there is some logic in it. I never felt very connected to either of my names and i find it kind of ridiculous that we would have the same name to everyone. You know me as Morzathoth, another site as Metal Heart, just like how things have different names in different languages. Ah, rants.

Mare, if you were coolcreepy, but you are not coolcreepy, just cool. I hope I am remembering this correctly... My common nickname translates to math, I am horrible at math, not acceptable. I guess that is sort of telling you my name, but oh well...

Meanwhile it is 3:53 here and I am awake. Tomorrow I shall probably irresponsibly order The Bands of Mourning so I can irresponsibly get it too early like what happened with Shadows of Self.

Well Im not the one who has to remember it, am I?

My name is also three syllables, I do not like the common nickname for my name, so until someone who is creative enough to figure out a better nickname they are stuck with my official one.

I think 3 syllable names are too long without nicknames, so yes, four syllable names are too long.

This is actually a pretty good idea, I use the name Terrana for another main character, I dont like it so it is just a place holder XD But you know what happens with place holder names

Azathoth is my cousin, by the way, if anyone wonders why our names are so similar. I cant figure out any good names either, I have set Riem as the name of one of my main characters, there is a character by that name who is mentioned like once in The Name Of The Wind, but his name is Riem, and thats that.

grumblegrumble... I want to see where this goes...

Exactly! You cant scare the reader, no one would be scared of a text, that is ridiculous, you can however make them scare themselves. Same reason we dont know what the "Noodle Incident" in Calvin and Hobbes is, because what we are thinking is more ridiculous and funny than what could have possibly been written (Doubtful actually as Bill Watterson is funnier than the entire forum together, but still) I think Zombies stopped being scary once everything had to have Zombies, I think the last game that had interesting Zombies was The Last of Us, mostly because Cordyceps is a real plant. I think you can pull the lights on the monster if you have a good enough monster, so to speak. Im not, thats why I try to use subtle creepiness and paranoia, that and I think gore is really tacky most of the time. Blood, isnt scary, the implication of blood is scary. Now I ranted without having a point again... Write, and then scare us all!

The saint was alone, but saints are scary, no one who hasnt made a pact with horrible powers could be that good at pretending to be good. I know right, one of my philosophies regarding horror writing is to only make theories regarding what happens in the backround, you want to leave your reader asking questions, the best way to do this I have found is to give clues going towards different answers. Lots of maybes, nothing concrete. The unknown is scarier than the known, unless you can come up with a reveal so horrifying that it is worse than not knowing. And most of us cant XD

Oh yes Im no good at world building either. I need to practice it, but I feel like that could come with the magic and just improvising the story. I dont exactly know you, but I think you could write some decent horror, try it.

That would hurt the paintings though, cant do that. A mothers love can be a very unreasonable thing. Good, I just need to figure out how the magic works XD That is what keeps me from writing fantasy most of the time, really... I have ideas, then I need magic systems. A creepy pasta writer who tries to write fantasy sometimes, fantasy that will probably end up being surreal and horrifying, because thats just what I do. I havent heard the shortening Moz before, not that I use this name a lot on the internet... I also accept Zathoth.

They were not just paintings though, they were her children, they were living creatures, maybe. I'd say she offered lots of resistance, when she started getting anemic she got pigs blood, it didnt work, when that didnt work she managed to wait a month with voices in her head screaming for blood all the time. I know XD I only have the intro written so far though XD There were no reasons for it, really. No evil Overlords threatening the peace, no princesses who needed to be saved or any important artifacts that had to be collected. The only thing that made me do it was boredom. One day while walking home I found a stick and decided to go on an adventure. Because without the detective you only get the fantastic view point, I want the mundane view point as well. That and I really want to noir monologue. I jsut figure everyone has reasons for what they do, doesnt matter if they are good or not. What is important to me is if the character is entertaining or not and villains can be very entertaining.

Hn... interesting. I think when it keeps screaming for you to feed it for months until you cant sleep you have a decently understandable reason. I have a feeling I would be a very infuriating fantasy writer XD I have this idea, which I probably will do something with one day that throws the old fantasy tropes out into the real world all naked and confused. So the old oracle is the drunk under the bridge, the dungeons are abandoned laboratories, amusement parks or the old annoying neighbor lady's house (With her loud, annoying dog actually being a dragon in disguise), the princess is the presidents daughter, the evil overlord is your boss and so on. Thing is there is a detective following the main character who doesnt know anything about the magic and explains everything from how it should work in the real world, so it is very possible the main character is just insane, then again, how did the main character just cut down three armed agents with a stick?

How about the patient? I hope the doctor burned the paintings too, but looks like the ending had something else in store You know I like this part about writing horror. Fantasy writers knows everything that happens behind the scenes, I just have guesses and interpretations, sometimes several. I dont know more than the readers do.

I... just had a thought so I have a somewhat arrogant question to ask... Do you think the narrator in Blood and Art is sympathetic? I tried to get around the entire "No you idiot dont go down to the basement alone!" feeling you often get from horror movies by forcing her to do what she ended up doing.

Because fictional characters are, by definition, not real?

I agree, the theory is missing something, but I still like it. Maybe the bronze starts blinking, or it gives everyone in a certain radius the ability to feel the pulse.

I think it was Chaos or Skaa who had the theory that the southerners absorb the mists in the metals, creating something like Fabrials. So I guess a Bronze Mistrial would pick up Investiture, a Steel Mistrial would push on metals and so on. Aluminum is already a Mistrial, it cancels out Investiture. I nicknamed the Mist Fabrials Mistrials, because.

If you are not careful you end up getting cut. Attractive people are like highstorms

Now, I am not much of a theorizer, but I cant sit on this horrible joke any longer: Just declare skaa the shard of Theory and be done with it.