Fifty More Horror Clichés That Should Be Left to Spoil

The Gold Metal of Frustrating Cliché Fodder; Horror

  I thought my job had been finished when the last parts of Fifty Horror Clichés That Need to Burn in a Fire were released to the general public.  Although I had some criticisms with my writing here and there, I thought the general message had been expressed to my slew of readers.  With my mind at ease after publishing fifty dissections to frustratingly popular horror clichés, I put the editorial gently into bed.  After all, the bane of all authors is to create a cash cow series that is continuously milked despite all the potential enjoyment being sucked dry.  Now that my job was complete, I started writing my first story to be published on Watt Pad, Gate Keeper, and devoted myself to crafting a singular universe for the characters that have always been in the back of my head to settle down peacefully in.

  But then, I came to realize that my job was far from over.  With Halloween right down the bend, I started spotting clichés that I forgot to snuff out in the editorial.  Book after book, show after show, and movie after movie were filled to the brim with clichés that I failed to warn the public about.  They came straight for me like a swarm of rabid wolves, consuming my thoughts in the following days after my editorial had been completed.  They clawed at me in agony to be noticed and treated with the same dignity I had given the previous fifty clichés.  These malevolent entities wanted to be put at rest for good, with me as their only chance of achieving true peace.  I had failed to notice these agonized clichés before it was too late for me to include them in my previous novel. Now I was paying the price by being haunted by their presence until I tucked them away forever like those other fifty clichés.

  That was the moment I knew the horror genre had officially just won the gold metal of frustrating cliché fodder. Fifty editorial parts were not going to be nearly enough to snuff out the problem hopefully for good. Another fifty were going to be needed in order to bring the relentlessly feral horror clichés platter to eternal rest. That was when I made a decision that I am both happy and slightly bitter about. I decided to make a follow-up novel to Fifty Horror Clichés That Need to Burn in a Fire, but this time with even juicier clichés to cover than the last in order to not fully submit to sequelitis.

With this the second unexpected part to an already successful editorial, I decided that things needed to function a little differently than last time. For one, I could not take almost two years to write this part of the editorial. The writing schedule would need to be a lot more organized, meaning that enough well written parts have to flow out by the six month mark. If the book took longer than that, I was a true procrastinator and needed some professional help to get me out of the habit. While writing these editorials is far from easy, they are not difficult enough that I cannot release content for weeks at a time. Second, I would need to write this editorial on the side of Gate Keeper, so I could still commit to my novel, yet continue to create more fodder for the horror clichés editorial. It would mean twice the workload for me, but since at the time I basically was doing nothing due to the outbreak that shall not be named, it was a workable idea. Plus, the novel would need periods to be edited throughly anyway, so the editorial could work as a great way to get through the inevitable hiatus chapter by chapter. Both rules would need to be applied throughly in order to work perfectly.

Wish me luck as I slay fifty more of these horror clichés in less than a six month period, hopefully without too many mistakes along the way. Whether or not it kills me, this editorial will be done to perfection!