[ OT ] Hey all ! New guy here , can i get some advice on how to write in a certain genre ?

Be cautions in when/how you give descriptions. 
 
 On one hand, a lot of the time you'll get the advice in writing `` Show, Do n't tell'', and listen to them; do n't say things directly, make the audience work for it a bit, but in horror specifically, though in other genres as well, there's a logical extreme of this: `` Describe, do n't show'' ie, do n't give us hard details, do n't tell us what the thing we're supposed to be afraid of *is*. The rule of thumb I've used to describe this before is to avoid actual nouns: Adjectives are great for making a vague, creepy vision of what this this *might* be, but letting the audience fill in the gaps. 
 
 Because one of the great things and the terrible things about horror is that you can make something scary as shit, yes, but you'll never make something scary as hell to everyone in your audience. Instead, you can allude to something scary as hell, and let each member of your audience jump to terrible conclusions, thus making their *own* terrifying ideas. 
 
 So give scary things vague descriptions, not a real, solid one, so the audience makes it scarier and more personal than you ever could. If you wanted to take *this* to an extreme, do n't even use adjectives: Just verbs. Just talk about whatever the scary thing *does* and leave your readers guessing what the hell it *is*. 
 
 That said, if you're too vague, the audience might feel like the scary thing is too nebulous, or get surprised out of Suspension of Disbelief if you describe it more later on. Your job is to use your words to lay the foundations for fear, to lay out the building blocks they they can scare themselves with, not to just give it a place in the story and assume they will make it appear out of nowhere.
