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Do I harbor a lot of fears and that's why I write horror?

@signa_remajica Asks:

I've been told that fear is something we ourselves create. If so to make people who read your stories get goosebumps have you experienced harboring fear in yourself? After all a story won't be real to others unless you make it real to yourself right?

Not as an adult. But when I was a kid, I was very fearful and shy. I was afraid of the dark, afraid someone was hiding in our garage, afraid of a lot of things. I think that's why I stayed in my room writing for hours. Later on, when I started to write scary books, I could remember that childhood feeling of fear, and I used it in my books.