Check out Colleen Chesebro’s Writer’s Quote Wednesday this week at Silver Threading!
I wanted to follow Colleen’s choice of a quote on darkness by Dean Koontz and found a great one by our beloved Sir Terry Pratchett. Sir Terry was loved by millions and the dying of his light leaves a very dark hole.
I thought about those dark times in books where the enemy always seems to lurk just where our heroes invariably seem to end up. Sometimes, they set out to find the darkness and sometimes the darkness falls suddenly, and our heroes are forced to fight back, no matter how unprepared they are.
Without such conflict, there is really no story. As writers, we send the darkness ahead and the reader hopes the hero wins.
But WE write the end of the story…
Wendy Anne Darling - YA Fantasy Author 
I love this quote, Wendy. We need the darkness in order to create tension. Besides, it is delicious to be frightened… 😁💗
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Yes! That delicious tightening in our tummies; the tightness of breath, the clenching of our fingers as we will our hero through it! 😀
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Exactly! And then I dream! LOL. I am a wuss!
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Hehehe… I’ve quit reading or watching scary things late at night! I might restart that if I decide to write horror stories, though.
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