Thousands of ideas flutter around in my head at the same time.

Most of my horror story ideas come from my own fears – things that frighten me, places that creep me out, nightmares that keep me awake at night. Where do you get your ideas & inspiration?

From then on, when the other kids had to read the dull pieces for their homework, she often assigned me to write stories, and I soon learnt to do it without my sister’s help. Of course, she didn’t know I’d had the help of my older sister. When I handed it in, she was startled that a six year-old could write so well. She took me up on it – bless her! – and gave me this assignment: a story about a letter’s adventures from writing to delivery. When I was six, I told the teacher the stories were stupid and I could write better ones. The stories we had to read in primary school were yawnishly dull, so I made up my own. Writing Fight Scenes, Writing Scary Scenes, Writing about Magic and Magicians, The Word Loss Diet and more.įor more information about Rayne Hall go to her website Īlright, on to the questions: When did you know you wanted to tell stories? Her short online classes for writers intense with plenty of personal feedback.

Currently, she edits the Ten Tales series of multi-author short story anthologies: Bites: Ten Tales of Vampires, Haunted: Ten Tales of Ghosts, Scared: Ten Tales of Horror, Cutlass: Ten Tales of Pirates, Beltane: Ten Tales of Witchcraft and more. She holds a college degree in publishing management and a masters degree in creative writing. Recent books include Storm Dancer (dark epic fantasy novel), Six Historical Tales Vol 1, Six Scary Tales Vol 1, 2 and 3 (mild horror stories), Six Historical Tales (short stories), Six Quirky Tales (humorous fantasy stories), Writing Fight Scenes and Writing Scary Scenes (instructions for authors). Rayne Hall has published more than thirty books under different pen names with different publishers in different genres, mostly fantasy, horror and non-fiction.

Cutlass by Rayne Hall