- Great Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
Write out the story - rapidly, fluently, and not too critically - following the second or narrative-order synopsis. Change incidents and plot whenever the developing process seems to suggest such change, never being bound by any previous design.
- Legend
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are, I think, four distinct types of weird story: one expressing a mood or feeling, another expressing a pictorial conception, a third expressing a general situation, condition, legend or intellectual conception, and a fourth explaining a definite tableau or specific dramatic situation or climax.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
In writing a weird story, I always try very carefully to achieve the right mood and atmosphere and place the emphasis where it belongs.
- Fantasy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when the characters are supposed to be accustomed to the wonder, I try to weave an air of awe and impressiveness corresponding to what the reader should feel. A casual style ruins any serious fantasy.
- Mood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
- Escape
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'punch' of a truly weird tale is simply some violation or transcending of fixed cosmic law - an imaginative escape from palling reality - hence, phenomena rather than persons are the logical 'heroes.'
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
- Minds
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.
- Emotions
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- Nov 07, 2020
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
- Science
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- Nov 07, 2020
Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
- Genuine
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.
- Encourages
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, there is much in pure humanitarian culture, as opposed to rigid scientific training, which encourages absorption in the affairs of mankind, and more or less indifference to the unfathomed abysses of star-strown space that yawn interminably about this terrestrial grain of dust.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020