Yes, imaginary nebulous terrors are scarier than more concrete ones, at least for me.
Not sure I understand the concept of "too nasty for a story" - well, OK, I do, but I think cruelty can be justified if the story has something interesting or important enough to say. Or if just writing stuff down helps - reality is more real, and thus more important, than fiction.
Reads above statement, wonders if it true - if fiction has the power to make me so happy, then surely it has the equivalent sad/scared making power? But if I'm sure it's fiction, and not a dramatisation of a real tragedy, then drama is mostly catharsis rather than misery. It's an adrenaline thing, perhaps?
I think the conclusion there may be that I am a glass half full person - but then a lot of people enjoy stuff like LoM and Supernatural et al, which is pretty much totally about bad things happening to quite nice people.
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Not sure I understand the concept of "too nasty for a story" - well, OK, I do, but I think cruelty can be justified if the story has something interesting or important enough to say. Or if just writing stuff down helps - reality is more real, and thus more important, than fiction.
Reads above statement, wonders if it true - if fiction has the power to make me so happy, then surely it has the equivalent sad/scared making power? But if I'm sure it's fiction, and not a dramatisation of a real tragedy, then drama is mostly catharsis rather than misery. It's an adrenaline thing, perhaps?
I think the conclusion there may be that I am a glass half full person - but then a lot of people enjoy stuff like LoM and Supernatural et al, which is pretty much totally about bad things happening to quite nice people.
*puzzled now*