I had decided that my main character would be one of the restless dead and although I still wanted the creeps and all that came with it, I spend many hours trying to imagine how being a ghost would really feel. It wasn’t until I started writing a ghost story of my own that I experienced a shift in perspective. It’s about off-key, off-kilter moments that jar, sudden unexpected movements or sounds, what we see out of the corner of our eyes, or perhaps even more potent, what we don’t see. It’s an exercise in holding back information and relying on suggestion and our primal fear of the unknown. They are some of the first stories we tell each other and often the ones we most remember. Writing a ghost story is a good lesson in the mechanics of storytelling.
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