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[Blazingcharizard]

What would be the most horrible situation you, or a character you're writing, could possibly go through? Some of your fears?

oh dear, the character I use in most of my stories. goes through a lot of horrible situations.

But some of blaze's would be,

watching her family die in front of her.

not being able to protect her friends.

that is just be two of the horrible situations .

But my fears would be. No being good enough for some one.
Knowing that I am hated by the ones, I call my family.

and dying

and blaze fears would be

Being hated by her family and friends.

Heights (At one point)

and fear of being forgotten about.

and she has a fear of dying (thou she has never told anyone, that)

sorry I haven't been on this threat in a while XD this thread gets pushed to the bottom of my page, so I forget to respond

[winged-backpack]

@everyone who's responded to my question so far
Thank you all! I think all these answers are really going to help. I've got at least 130 doors to plan so anything is helpful at this point! I've got 30 things behind doors so far, but they're not in order, they're in random places based on how bad it is (i.e. cockroaches are door 3 and mustard gas is door 85). I'm actually 710 words in after writing the first 3 doors, but now I'm stuck for things behind doors 4 and 5 ^^'

@food
32,000 words?? That's amazing! I struggle to write 32 words on a good day!

I love being a writer, because if anyone were to look at my search history I would be arrested right away.
"What does mustard gas do?"
"What voltage would kill a human being?"
"What crimes would mean multiple life sentences?"

[sparrow;]

What would be the most horrible situation you, or a character you're writing, could possibly go through? Some of your fears?
For my personal worst fear... other than the usual ones (family dying etc) I have one really specific fear. Drowning in fruit flies. I'm actually afraid of fruit flies (and all bugs tbh) in general, but the way they sometimes fly up your nose... I always imagine them flooding through my mouth and nose and literally drowning me. I hate all bugs. I'm fine with spiders, though.
My second-biggest fear is being buried alive. No explanation needed.
As for character fears...
Caitlin - If she's faced with a problem she can't solve, when everyone's relying on her
Max - Being outdone at something he thinks he's good at
Alex - Having Joy (their younger sister) finding out how weak they are (they're not weak, they think they are)
Joy - Her mind being controlled, and being forced to hurt her family
Sylvia - Someone she loves being hurt because of her
Glenda - Watching her loved ones being unhappy
Valerie - Dying from dehydration or starvation, especially if she was too weak to get food/water
Tristan - Caring about people (and, by extension, meeting strangers)
Gabriel Shine - Being forgotten, or being remembered as worthless/a failure
That's (I think) most of the important characters in MoC. I could've included Tawa and Cherry and Acorn and all the others... but that'd take way too long.

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@food
32,000 words?? That's amazing! I struggle to write 32 words on a good day!

I love being a writer, because if anyone were to look at my search history I would be arrested right away.
"What does mustard gas do?"
"What voltage would kill a human being?"
"What crimes would mean multiple life sentences?"

Oh wow, food... you shouldn't be on this thread.

Also, I have the same thing with search history. My other problem is the conversations I have with friends. I have a couple of really good friends who know a lot about murder (they both want to be forensic scientists, not murderers!) and they are a massive help for stories. Unfortunately, it might seem weird to hear me ask them, "I need to murder -name here- so what's the best kind of poison to use to kill someone? Where could I find it?" Still, more helpful than Google for specific info.

[The Worst Username]

What would be the most horrible situation you, or a character you're writing, could possibly go through? Some of your fears?

My biggest fear: being completely helpless as terrible things happen around me. This sounds kinda bad, but I don't care that much about my own life, but I care a lot about the suffering of others. The horrors of the world are too much for my little heart. (I also don't really like the idea of failure/weakness in general.)

My characters, meanwhile, are a bit different.
Gobkiu: being silenced, unable to speak against injustice because of murder threats/oppressive laws/what have you. Also, drowning, starving, and cholera--she's studied way too much about cholera and other diseases, and she's an atheist, so death is extra bad for her.

Silvu: poverty, dying young, or all his artwork being destroyed.

Owuk: losing her girlfriend, poverty, old age, being unable to meet her own goals, destruction of her way of life--she's very rich and highly competitive, and she demands a lot of the world in general.

I'm actually working on my plan for what's going to be behind each door, and I'm going to need a lot, so here I have a question for you! Any answers may end up in this book, so keep that in mind ^^

I'm kind of bad at coming up with torture devices and such, so maybe try researching the Saw movies and torture devices. Also, like you were saying, Reddit 50/50 might have some nice, terrifying stuff.

y'all be shipping me, it's kinda weird. But I'm enjoying it at the same time. I wish his assigned seat was next to mine...sigh.

*hugs* Well, if it makes you feel any better, love is just a bunch of chemicals interacting in our brains to make us bring on the next generation. So go talk to him, if you want! Have some fun. (Why is everyone getting into Silver's love life again?)

@Food

Ah, congrats! You're going in the time-out corner until you stop being so productive, though. (Try making the font smaller and/or zooming out. You can zoom in later, and the font will look large, but it'll take up a lot less pages and be much quicker to load.)

[winged-backpack]

@worst

I have actually taken some inspiration from Saw 2, the needle pit, but I've changed it a little to sewing pins so I'm not full-on plagiarising ^^'
I'm actually struggling more with the earlier doors, with the less intimidating things. Small fears, one's that aren't so full on as mustard gas and black widow spiders

[food ☕️]

Being productive? Ppppppppsssssssssshhhhhhhhhhh. I wrote that thing some many months ago. And kinda gave up on it. I'm right back to square one right now. (And it also needed to be rewrited from chapter 6 and on.) Although I do intend to write my very first chapter for my new project today as I think I've finally rekindled my favored writing style, and that's really hyping me up.

@winged Oh yeah, forgot to mention, that does sound really cool. And it being inspired by reddit 50/50? Yeah, that's gonna make for some terrifying stuff! I once tried to write horror but... It didn't work out. It's such a difficult genre to really nail, but from what I've read and just the general idea, I think you're gonna get pretty far. Doors really can be terrifying if you think about it, I wonder why more people haven't realized that...?

[Megaguirus]

LOL, I can relate to that search history thing. I know a lot about what it takes to kill someone, though, and the best methods (hey, I like crime dramas, okay? I ain't gonna murder someone). Thankfully, I don't deal a lot in terms of horror, so my deaths aren't really that creative. And since I'm also interested in anatomy, I know how long someone has to live depending on what thing gets injured, or how long it takes for a certain bone to heal, etc. etc. My most recent search history, though, had to be when I Googled "Why can't apes speak?", for one of my other novels. And it was really interesting! All that is keeping them from speaking are a few minor things, which they could very well evolve into, and that works for a lot of other mammals too. So now I can work on my mammal novel and give them their own language which won't be grunts and growls, but forming actual words. Woo hoo!

What would be the most horrible situation you, or a character you're writing, could possibly go through? Some of your fears?

My worst fears are losing a loved one, dying alone in outer space, or dying alone in the open ocean. I hate big, vast and empty spaces, so space and the ocean are huge fears of mine. I'm a full grown adult and I hate swimming in the deep end of a pool.

Dante: He's already been in some pretty terrible situations, but he is afraid of sea dragons, since he watched one take his surrogate mother.

Kyori: Dying without an heir or somehow losing her Guardian powers.The island would be at great risk then.

Solstice: Losing her friends.

[The Worst Username]

LOL, I can relate to that search history thing. I know a lot about what it takes to kill someone, though, and the best methods (hey, I like crime dramas, okay? I ain't gonna murder someone). Thankfully, I don't deal a lot in terms of horror, so my deaths aren't really that creative. And since I'm also interested in anatomy, I know how long someone has to live depending on what thing gets injured, or how long it takes for a certain bone to heal, etc. etc. My most recent search history, though, had to be when I Googled "Why can't apes speak?", for one of my other novels. And it was really interesting! All that is keeping them from speaking are a few minor things, which they could very well evolve into, and that works for a lot of other mammals too. So now I can work on my mammal novel and give them their own language which won't be grunts and growls, but forming actual words. Woo hoo!

Oh my goodness, that's so cool! I have a bunch of talking nonhuman animal species in my stories, and I should really put more research into them, just to see how complex the language would be depending on the species. I'll have to research that. (Now I wish I was immortal, so I could just sit around and observe as animals started to evolve more and more complex communication/language systems.)

[Megaguirus]

LOL, I can relate to that search history thing. I know a lot about what it takes to kill someone, though, and the best methods (hey, I like crime dramas, okay? I ain't gonna murder someone). Thankfully, I don't deal a lot in terms of horror, so my deaths aren't really that creative. And since I'm also interested in anatomy, I know how long someone has to live depending on what thing gets injured, or how long it takes for a certain bone to heal, etc. etc. My most recent search history, though, had to be when I Googled "Why can't apes speak?", for one of my other novels. And it was really interesting! All that is keeping them from speaking are a few minor things, which they could very well evolve into, and that works for a lot of other mammals too. So now I can work on my mammal novel and give them their own language which won't be grunts and growls, but forming actual words. Woo hoo!

Oh my goodness, that's so cool! I have a bunch of talking nonhuman animal species in my stories, and I should really put more research into them, just to see how complex the language would be depending on the species. I'll have to research that. (Now I wish I was immortal, so I could just sit around and observe as animals started to evolve more and more complex communication/language systems.)

Yeah, it's really fun now that I know, and it does open the door for my humanoid species, too. The thing is, there's a lot of room for creativity because scientists still don't know when humans first started speaking.

And, of course, thanks to my sister, these mammals first evolved on Mars, back when it was habitable. It's fun, really, trying to make some scientifically inaccurate things scientific. That's what I strive for in my writing. If I can't believe that the dragons in my novel could be real, then what about the readers?

I swear, though, this novel will be first started in 2020. There's SO much to plan, this is my biggest yet. I'm trying to make it like Narnia or Middle Earth in terms of size.

(I want to add the disclaimer that I am actually a creationist, but evolution is really fun to play with in my stories)

[winged-backpack]

@megaguirus

that's pretty cool how accurate you're trying to be. I'm trying to do the same, which is why my search history is going to be pretty messed up while I'm writing this book

Speaking of, I've actually managed a third part that's SFW enough that I can share it with you guys again! I'm open for any criticism, I really want this to be good!

Door 3
Femie took a deep breath, then wished she hadn’t as the smell reached her nose once more. She gagged for a second. Wiping her hand over her sweating forehead, she regained her energy and unlocked the door in front of her.
This new door opened outwards. At first, Femie wasn’t sure what she was seeing. The room was painted a dark brown, and a strange clicking sound began to emanate. The wall was almost moving, throbbing with the noise.
The realisation mounted upon Femie, and she began to recoil in horror as she understood that the walls were not really painted brown. What she was seeing were thousands upon thousands of cockroaches, crawling all over each other and occasionally flying around. Femie froze, as the oily, musky stench caused her to relive an old memory.
Years ago, when she was just a kid, maybe six or seven years old, her mother had discovered a nest of roaches under the bathroom floor. There were less than one hundred, yet the smell still filled the whole upper story of Femie’s house. It was so bad that they had all been forced to sleep downstairs until the exterminator had dealt with them. However, the smell had still lingered, and Femie swore that it had never really gone away.
Hundreds of the insects had suddenly realised an exit had been opened, and suddenly Femie was swallowed up into a swarm of roaches. With all her might, she forced the door closed, but enough had escaped into the corridor with her.
“Always nice to have some company,” she said, trying to make the best of the situation.
She marked the door, then walked to the next.
It’s only going to get worse, her mind taunted her as she stared at the white panels that faced her.