I had never entered Twisted50 before and didn’t even like horror, but some writing friends advised me it was a great opportunity, so I thought I’d try it.These are the happy, unexpected benefits of my Twisted50 journey.
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When you read nearly 150 short horror stories in a row, you start to see the pulse of collective fear, the heartbeat of our shared nightmares. The entries in this competition were no different. As I sifted through the manuscripts, certain themes and motifs rose to the surface, revealing not just trends in horror fiction but also the anxieties gnawing at the bones of society. Here’s what I noticed, and what I believe it says about where horror – and maybe we ourselves – are headed.
With Chris Jones’s blessing and approval, I would welcome an opportunity to use one of the Twisted50 stories so I could use AI voice generation to create an audio presentation of that story. Think of this as an Audio Drama experiment with AI tools.
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It was a blast being part of “Twisted” for the first time. Wish I’d stumbled upon this community sooner. It’s an amazing zone for writers who are not afraid to push the boundaries and I experienced a sense of freedom of expression knowing I’d not be judged or advised to censor myself.
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The experience has been fab! My first drafts always feel like a total mess, and this was no different. I was writing in an unfamiliar genre, knowing it was going to be read by a bunch of writers who, in my mind, were massive horror buffs, and I was terrified my work would be torn to pieces.
“Chef turned killer. Either way, he’s sharpening his knives. The menu? His critics… You’ll never leave a Trustpilot review again.”
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We are busy reading, reviewing, tweaking and getting the stories ready for judging. We do have to move some dates though. The team all coming down with Covid AND the staggering venue costs in October / November / December means that I have decided to move the launch dates and process.
If you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, I’m here to fill you in! NaNoWriMo stands for: National Novel Writing Month. In other words, within the month of November, you have one overarching goal: write 50,000 words. Break those numbers down and you have 1,667 words a day. Enough words to classify as a novel. Enough words to regret ever signing up for it. It’s perfect.
Hearing my words come to life with a voice for the very first time was cool / weird. Knowing that that voice was artificially generated was cooler / weirder. Had I not been told that that was a fake voice – I would not have guessed it. She was impressively real. The small inflections on certain words, the way dialogue was spoken differently and the pacing of the storytelling, was really spot on
How could the AI text-speech help me with my writing? I created a text-speech project for my story, ‘Anatomy of Crime’, which included sound effects and background music to set the mood.