Types of fiction (horror and otherwise) you would like to see on....

[Matt Carroll]

Chudstories.com

Possessing so few writing skills of my own requires me to seek out stories that interest me.
So rather than actually writing fiction myself I can only make a wish list of types of stories I would like to see.

I've always been a sucker for "last man on earth" type of stories. Apocolypse writing I guess you can call it. The idea of the inevitable end of the world and the last people left is an intriguing and scary topic.

Also, Stephen King's old stand-by of a little town with something wrong with it is a simple sounding concept that,if done right, can be entertaining as hell.

Just two off the top of my head. I've read most of the stories posted, and the site already has a great start.

Oh, and can we see more Mary Kate and Ashley tales?

[Blofeld]

I'm working on their drug and alcohol binges of freshman year in college.

[Nick Nunziata]

Great ideas, both.

Now get writin'!

[Dan Whitehead]

Blofeld:
I'm working on their drug and alcohol binges of freshman year in college.And I'm working on a remake of "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane", to flesh out their final bloated descent into venemous dementia and murderous in-fighting.

[Rath/Brendan]

I would like to see some vampire stories. And fantasy, high style.

[Dan Whitehead]

RathBandu:
I would like to see some vampire stories. And fantasy, high style.What? Like Cheech and Chong?

I'd like to see some Twilight Zone/Tales Of The Unexpected type stories. Not sci-fi as such - just short stories with a twist. Then I can read them out through gritted teeth and pretend to be Rod Serling.

[Alice in Wonderland]

I am up for vampires, yeah, but also werewolves.

Especially werewolves...

[Nick Nunziata]

We've avoided Vampires because they're so overused and overloved... while werewolves get little.

[Alice in Wonderland]

But no-one has any overwhelming objections to werewolves?

I'd do a werewolf story. Werewolves rule.

Can there be explicit sex and violence in it? Kinda not worth doing otherwise... :D

[Matt Carroll]

As a fan of the old Universal horror monster matchups, I would lobve to see the updates on some of those type of stories.
Werewolf V. Vampire

That sort of thing.
I love the idea of two nearly indesructible creatures duking it out to the death.

[Sleeplesslumber]

Call:
I've always been a sucker for "last man on earth" type of stories. Apocolypse writing I guess you can call it. The idea of the inevitable end of the world and the last people left is an intriguing and scary topic.

Also, Stephen King's old stand-by of a little town with something wrong with it is a simple sounding concept that,if done right, can be entertaining as hell.
Call I am accualy writing a story that fits both of those descriptions.

[Matt Carroll]

If you can pull that off in one story, you shall rock.

[Charlie Brigden]

I'm working on a Werewolf story.

[Rath/Brendan]

I'm working on an Indiana Jones story, "Indiana Jones and the Ghost of Fine Hall".

[Johnny Butane]

We alreayd did werewolves many moons ago, but this is a whole new beast to be sure. I would LOVE to see more werewolf stories by some of the current writers on here.

[Richard Dickson]

I think I neat idea would be to have a fictional town -- call it Chuddiston if you will -- and have everyone write stories set in this town. You could reference events, characters, and places mentioned in other stories. You could have horror, comedy, mystery, drama, anything, but always tie it in to this town. A shared world, our very own version of Castle Rock, with anything posted that takes place in it regarded as canon and needing to be adhered to in future installments. I think it could be a lot of fun reading other people's stuff, finding something interesting in it, and expanding on it.

[Blofeld]

That would be fun, Poxy. I think that kind of effort would require extensive editorial commitment though...

[Richard Dickson]

Yeah, you probably would need a "Mayor of Chuddiston" who would have to make sure nothing got submitted that destroyed anything someone else had done.

[Blofeld]

Have you read Charles L. Grant's Greystone Bay books (there are 4), or the Horror Writer's Association shared-world anthology books? Neat stuff.

[Richard Dickson]

No, not familiar with those, but I have read the first three volumes of Wild Cards, which is sort of what gave me the idea.

[Dan Whitehead]

Poxy Von Sinister:
I think I neat idea would be to have a fictional town -- call it Chuddiston if you will -- and have everyone write stories set in this town. You could reference events, characters, and places mentioned in other stories. You could have horror, comedy, mystery, drama, anything, but always tie it in to this town. A shared world, our very own version of Castle Rock, with anything posted that takes place in it regarded as canon and needing to be adhered to in future installments. I think it could be a lot of fun reading other people's stuff, finding something interesting in it, and expanding on it.I nominate Chud Valley as the town name. Chuddiston sounds like some sort of anal ointment. Not that I'd know. Er...

[Matt Carroll]

That sounds so difficult as to make my head spin, but if it could pulled off the coolness would be legion.

Now, how can someone with absolutely no writing skills whatsoever be involved in such a project?

[Coyote]

How are you at art?
(I am, of course, asking that with no knowledge of Nick's art requirements.)

I vote "Chud" not be used in any way in the name of said town. Have it be something more normal, like Bakersville, or somesuch.
Or Roanoke. I like Roanoke.

(If you fail to see the signigigance of the name, try <a href="http://usparks.about.com/library/weekly/aa081699.htm" target="_blank">http://usparks.about.com/library/weekly/aa081699.htm</a> )

[Matt Carroll]

Old Man Coyote:
How are you at art?
Um...even worse than writing.
My skills are of the more practical, not creative, nature.

If the town has television news, then I could fictionally direct the hell out of it.

[Hastur]

I would take the project on. If I couldn't handle it, I'd recruit a few others *grin*.

I'm going to start a new thread about this place, if you don't mind, Nick?

[Rath/Brendan]

Johnny Butane:
We alreayd did werewolves many moons ago, but this is a whole new beast to be sure. I would LOVE to see more werewolf stories by some of the current writers on here.I'm actually writing a werewolf novel. It's basically James Michner done horror style. It follows a clan of werewolves, a brood of vampires, and a secret religious brotherhood as they battle through the centuries. All sorts of cool historical personas slip in and out of it. Sort of like "Braveheart" meets "Interview With The Vampire" meets "Godfather."