{"id":1065,"date":"2018-10-07T17:28:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/?page_id=1065"},"modified":"2018-10-19T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T19:45:39","slug":"horror-humor-humanity-three-keys-scary-storytelling-jeff-deck","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/horror-humor-humanity-three-keys-scary-storytelling-jeff-deck\/","title":{"rendered":"Horror, Humor, and Humanity: Three Keys to Scary Storytelling, with Jeff Deck"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1069\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1069\" style=\"width: 271px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Jeff-Deck_scary_resized-1-271x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"271\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1069\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Author Jeff Deck<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s a good scare without good stakes? How do you balance dread with moments of relief? In \u201cHorror, Humor, and Humanity: Three Keys to Scary Storytelling,\u201d Jeff Deck will show you how to make your horror fiction more compelling and affecting. Too often writers focus solely on the Horror element and neglect to add Humor and Humanity to their story, resulting in a flat tale that forgets to make you care whether the characters are killed by an axe murderer\/wolfman\/neo-Nazi slugoid. Workshop participants will work on making their characters more relatable and interspersing moments of dark comedy between the frights in order to heighten each instance of tension. This workshop will be include a writing exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>WHERE: The workshop will be held at The Ford House on the campus of SNHU (2500 North River Road, Manchester, NH 03106 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/contact-us\/\">Directions and parking info here<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>WHEN: Saturday October 20 from 10am-1pm<\/p>\n<p>COST: This workshop is $65 for NHWP members or $80 for nonmembers and is limited to 12 students.<\/p>\n<p>Not a member? Want to join a community of writers working to foster an audience for literature in New Hampshire?\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.z2systems.com\/np\/clients\/nhwp\/membershipJoin.jsp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to join or renew your membership to the New Hampshire Writers Project.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff Deck is an indie author who lives in Maine with his wife, Jane, and their silly dog, Burleigh. Deck writes science fiction, fantasy, horror, dark fantasy, and other speculative fiction. Deck is the author of the new urban fantasy \/ mystery novel City of Ports, the supernatural thriller novel The Pseudo-Chronicles of Mark Huntley, and the sci-fi gaming adventure novel Player Choice. He is also the author, with Benjamin D. Herson, of the nonfiction book The Great Typo Hunt: Two Friends Changing the World, One Correction at a Time (Crown\/Random House). Deck is also a fiction ghostwriter and editor who helps other authors tell their stories, and he has contributed content to a couple of video games.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What\u2019s a good scare without good stakes? How do you balance dread with moments of relief? In \u201cHorror, Humor, and Humanity: Three Keys to Scary Storytelling,\u201d Jeff Deck will show you how to make your horror fiction more compelling and affecting. Too often writers focus solely on the Horror element and neglect to add Humor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ppma_author":[351],"class_list":["post-1065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Horror, Humor, and Humanity: Three Keys to Scary Storytelling, with Jeff Deck - New Hampshire Writers\u2019 PROJECT<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nhwritersproject.org\/horror-humor-humanity-three-keys-scary-storytelling-jeff-deck\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Horror, Humor, and Humanity: Three Keys to Scary Storytelling, with Jeff Deck - New Hampshire Writers\u2019 PROJECT\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"What\u2019s a good scare without good stakes? 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