Research

My story "Scawy" is based around an unknown, spooky happening in a suburban setting. What ends up causing Steven to disappear is not ultimately revealed so this gave me more freedom in not having to stay within a rigid closed-off attempt at being as realistic as possible. But perhaps my story could be strengthened in the following ways:

- Finding an actual setting. If the reader recognizes the town in the story, or the fictional town in your story feels like it could exist then you do a better job of placing the reader in your story. The town takes a backseat in my story and does not even get a name.

- Reading up on similar cases. Now I'm not sure there will be any real events that happened quite like the events portrayed in Scawy... but there is strange unexplained phenomena all over the planet. I could search for a website of all these stories and find a recurring emotion or feeling these people felt during these strange happenings.

- Add a bit of history. If I looked up some important events in several different locations, I'm sure I could find one that would fit in my story and help add another latyer to the lives of the characters in the story.