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I discovered a quite wonderful term today in Rayne Hall's Writing Dark Stories: How to Write Horror and Other Disturbing Short Stories:

SPLATTERPUNK:This type of horror relies on extreme violence and graphic gore. There may be detailed descriptions of dismemberments, chainsaw massacres and disembowellings. Splatterpunk aims to shock, revolt and terrify. It seeks to create an immediate intense experience, rather than a lasting impression.

Basically, what we call 'Torture Porn' in films such as the Saw franchise.

This sounds exactly like the kind of stories I was writing at the age of ten in school, which had my parents hauled into school by a concerned teacher. An insane farmer running around with chainsaws killing his family and so forth. Maybe that's why I now enjoy watching Wire In The Blood and Dexter. Who knows.

So, I decided to try to return to my childhood roots and write a very nasty story. With a nice cold glass of Moloko Plus to inspire the ultraviolence.*

This is what my brilliant plotting actually says:

An Awesome Splatterpunk Story
1. There's this girl. She's alrite.
2. She wants to join this group, yeah? They won't let her.
3. She proves herself. Turns out the group is baaad.
4. 2,000 words of ultraviolence
5. There's this Obstacle.
6. Then there's this Twist.
7. It ends brilliantly.

* Recipe courtesy of The Geeky Chef Cookbook by Cassandra Reeder. Her outstanding blog can be found at www.geekychef.com