Tried writing a horror prompt from the monster's point of view

I threw together a quick story where the ghost was actually terrified of the living family. Posted it in a prompt swap thread here last Tuesday. Got 47 replies in 24 hours, mostly people saying it broke their usual block. Guess the lesson is flip the script completely, even if it feels stupid at first. Anyone else found a weird angle that just clicked?

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quinnm771d ago

people went nuts for it" yeah @abby_cooper that's the exact feeling i got with my ghost story... 47 replies felt like a lot for a tuesday night. i think it works because we all get stuck in the same horror tropes over and over. flipping the haunted house to protect the family is a good one, i might swipe that idea honestly.

fiona_kim971d ago

Turning the monster into something with OCD worked for me once. Like it had to count every floorboard before midnight or it would just stand there paralyzed instead of chasing anyone. Weirdest prompt I ever wrote and people still message me about it.

abby_cooper1d ago

Yeah that totally works. Last month I did a prompt where the haunted house was actually trying to protect the family from a much worse evil outside, and people went nuts for it in the thread. Sometimes the dumbest flips end up being the most fun to write, right?