Necronic
Staff member
I've started working on a pretty ambitious writing project recently that involves writing about madness. Not just "oh snap he's crazy and he poops himself", but more about a place where reality itself has grown thin and corrupted.
A lot of my inspiration for this is coming from a series called Viriconium, and a little bit from the The Steel Remains/Cold Commands descriptions of "The Gray Places".
So, I have a couple of examples, but I can't really place my finger on what it is with the writing that makes it work. If you guys have any other examples of writing about madness, or about places where reality has weakened (I don't even know how to describe it other than that) I would appreciate it. Or just any advice about how you describe something that can't be described, such as the thinning of reality, but in such a way that it can't be appreciated by the characters in the context.
A lot of my inspiration for this is coming from a series called Viriconium, and a little bit from the The Steel Remains/Cold Commands descriptions of "The Gray Places".
So, I have a couple of examples, but I can't really place my finger on what it is with the writing that makes it work. If you guys have any other examples of writing about madness, or about places where reality has weakened (I don't even know how to describe it other than that) I would appreciate it. Or just any advice about how you describe something that can't be described, such as the thinning of reality, but in such a way that it can't be appreciated by the characters in the context.