"Untitled Gore Project" - Brainstorm 1 - For Writing Chapter 1

Monster:

- Supernatural, Biological, Psychological (Human)?

- Horror stories are usually about Revenge

    - Destruction of environment/environment fights back

    - Human does bad thing/monster gets revenge

- Human monster/human form?

    - worms would be good for gore possibility

    - Human with one monstrous attribute

    - no ghosts - “ghosts suck”

- group of monsters/one?

    - “one is always best”

What kind of gore?:

- Gore of monster killing people

- Gore of monster being killed

    - Zombies - no zombies “I don’t really want to do zombies”

- Let’s go with victims gore:

    - means that we need a few people to load up and kill, a group

- Dolls and puppets would be good for gore possibility

Setting:

-  Isolation is important to horror story

    - “bottle story”

    - keeping people away from help/escape

    - must get rid of cellphones

        - middle of nowhere/period piece?

- woods?

     - people are going to the woods

     - writer’s retreat

     - unplugged retreat

     - people can talk about why they need to get away

     - stressed out retreat

          - business ladies

    - stalkers are on a retreat for therapy

    - business ladies being sent for HR treatment because they have all been “me too”ed.

        - They (the ladies) were taking advantage of their position of power and molesting/harassing their underlings

    - everyone thinks the weird stuff that is happening is their own person they wronged coming after them

    - the ladies will lose their jobs if they don’t stay for the whole retreat(ment)

    - can’t use their cellphones

   - after the first few people disappear, the others will stay because they don’t want to lose their jobs, even though those people “left”.

Beats for the chapter:

- beat 1 (666 words max.)

    - “the world is not what it seems - the reader catches a glimpse of the monster or a hint that the monster exists. This is optional and might occur right away, often as a prologue or after the main characters have been introduced.”

    - “I like it to be before the main characters are introduced”

        - a lady “killing herself”, but actually murdered

        - staff cleaning rocks where she “threw herself off the cliff”

          - or scooping guts out of woods or part of the spa (mudbath?)

    - the monster:

        - not the monster in repose yet

    - digging graves/cleaning gore/staff working

    - feeding the beast?

    - cult of Pirouli?

    - cult to Bast (because ladies retreat)?

        - high priestess of Bast

          - cat face because of mummification

             - sewed giant leopard head to her body

                 - sew giant cat head onto people to be sacrificed?

                 - tiny cat paws sewn onto their hands

                 - sewing on cat parts to a human = possible opening scene?

         -any cat Goddess

        - mummification would be a good opportunity for gore

            - Egyptian mummy brought over to America, etc., etc.

    - attacks with claws, sharp teeth

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- beat 2 (333 words max.)

    - “putting the players in action - you introduce important characters”   

- everyone is talking about someone who is coming to the retreat

    - open on staff getting the place ready for who is coming