Terry Kerr's Blog: Writing

I've just been redrafting a book, "Stay My Hand" which will go live in 2016 (if everything goes according to plan, that is - there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip, as they say.) It brought to mind a conversation I had with an old mate (no longer with us) who published FIRST DRAFTS of his work! "I hate revising," he said. "I've written it. Why would I want to write it again? It's hard, revising I don't know what to cut."

I told him I found it easy, the most pleasurable part of the process. "Cut what's shit," I said.

He didn't get it. But he bought the next round, so that was OK.

The horror story cannot exist without asking the question, "What happens after we die?" Without that question, you don't have a horror story. The horror genre is the only genre that must ask that question; and that, for me, is why it's the most important genre of all.