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20 Ways to Show Extreme Fear in Your Writing

As I dive into researching signs of fear for my horror WIP, I wanted to share some of the most compelling and visceral reactions I’ve come across. Whether you’re writing a chilling scene or crafting a character’s panic, these 20 signs of fear can help bring tension and realism to your story.

Physical Reactions

Hyperventilating — sucking in air but never feeling like it’s enough

Chest tightens — feels like a weight or hands pressing down

Limbs shaking violently, knees buckling

Complete loss of muscle control — collapsing or unable to stand

Cold sweat soaking through clothes

Heart hammering so hard they feel it in their throat or head

Tunnel vision — the world narrowing down to one terrifying focal point

Ringing in the ears or sudden deafness, like the world drops away

Dizziness / feeling faint / vision blurring

Dry mouth — unable to speak or even scream

Uncontrollable Behavior

Screaming / sobbing / gasping — involuntary vocal outbursts

Panic run — bolting without thinking, tripping over everything

Clawing at their own skin / chest / throat — like trying to escape their body

Begging / pleading out loud even if no one’s there

Repeating words or phrases — “No, no, no” / “This isn’t happening”

Hiding instinctively — diving under tables, closets, or corners

Desperate grabbing — reaching for someone, anything solid

Loss of bladder or bowel control (for extreme terror)

Total mental shutdown — frozen, slack-jawed, staring blankly

Memory blackout — later can’t recall what happened during the worst moment

Got any Fics similar to this?

A Shadowpeach fanfic where Macaque observes Wukong and the pilgrims on their journey. Seeing how happy Wukong is and believing that he's been forgotten, Macaque decides to leave instead of dying.

Or maybe one of the pilgrims notices him and confronts him just before Macaque leaves

I need it pls

Macaque's fur

I’ve got a little headcanon based on what I’ve heard about the 2000s cartoon (haven’t watched it yet, so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong). From what I gather, Macaque has white fur in that version, right?

Now, I’ve seen some LMK fan artists depict him with white fur too, and that gave me an idea—what if we mixed those interpretations?Not like combine the colors or have one side be white and the other black I mean in the way like an artic fox's fur works

So,When Winter is approaching Macaque starts to Shed his shorter,black thin fur to a long white coat.

And since SWK doesn’t do that, the first time it happened, he absolutely panicked, thinking Macaque was terminally ill or something. While SWK’s over here Having a Panic attack, probably speaking in Incoherent sentences and freaking out, Macaque is there, super confused, like, “???”.

Eventually, Macaque figures out what’s going on, sits Wukong down, and explains everything to him. Wukong's like, “Ohhhhhh, so I was panicking over nothing…” Macaque would probably tease him about it later

Is there a graphic novel version of Journey to the West that sticks really closely to the original story?

I want to start reading Journey to the west. But, I can't really handle reading the entire thing. My concentration level is low. Is there a faithful adaptation that I can read?

I am writing a fic where Eggman raises Sonic

Monkey shenanigans

Art request for @goldentigereyemania

Mk is spending too much time with SWK

Thank you!!

Now I'll never run out of Words!

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

Hello Shadowpeach Nation!

This is my first time drawing them!

Am I allowed in?

This is so helpful!!!

Writing Tips

Punctuating Dialogue

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➸ “This is a sentence.”

➸ “This is a sentence with a dialogue tag at the end,” she said.

➸ “This,” he said, “is a sentence split by a dialogue tag.”

➸ “This is a sentence,” she said. “This is a new sentence. New sentences are capitalized.”

➸ “This is a sentence followed by an action.” He stood. “They are separate sentences because he did not speak by standing.”

➸ She said, “Use a comma to introduce dialogue. The quote is capitalized when the dialogue tag is at the beginning.”

➸ “Use a comma when a dialogue tag follows a quote,” he said.

“Unless there is a question mark?” she asked.

“Or an exclamation point!” he answered. “The dialogue tag still remains uncapitalized because it’s not truly the end of the sentence.”

➸ “Periods and commas should be inside closing quotations.”

➸ “Hey!” she shouted, “Sometimes exclamation points are inside quotations.”

However, if it’s not dialogue exclamation points can also be “outside”!

➸ “Does this apply to question marks too?” he asked.

If it’s not dialogue, can question marks be “outside”? (Yes, they can.)

➸ “This applies to dashes too. Inside quotations dashes typically express—“

“Interruption” — but there are situations dashes may be outside.

➸ “You’ll notice that exclamation marks, question marks, and dashes do not have a comma after them. Ellipses don’t have a comma after them either…” she said.

➸ “My teacher said, ‘Use single quotation marks when quoting within dialogue.’”

➸ “Use paragraph breaks to indicate a new speaker,” he said.

“The readers will know it’s someone else speaking.”

➸ “If it’s the same speaker but different paragraph, keep the closing quotation off.

“This shows it’s the same character continuing to speak.”

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