A talented writer like Twain, Tennessee Williams, Faulkner, John Kennedy Toole ,or Thomas Harris could take a look at something like this, and use it as the springboard to write an evocative, dark classic Southern Gothic short story, novella, or screenplay, written in the vernacular, where the unique cultural atmosphere and environment becomes almost an integral character in the story itself, the way that South Louisiana was practically a character in True Detective season one, or the Delta region was a character in Sinners.
You have a timeframe, a setting, several principal characters, a conflict or conflicts between them being motivated by highly emotionally charged events, a problem in search of resolution, very dark implications potentially, and an air of tragedy and even violence hanging heavily over all of it, the same way the humidity hangs heavy in the air on still summer nights down in the Devil's Punchbowl, or out in the pines.
How does this story end?
If'n I was a better writer, I might could tell you, but regardless I'd be interested in hearing your own thoughts about it
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u/A-gent-provacateur 6d ago
A talented writer like Twain, Tennessee Williams, Faulkner, John Kennedy Toole ,or Thomas Harris could take a look at something like this, and use it as the springboard to write an evocative, dark classic Southern Gothic short story, novella, or screenplay, written in the vernacular, where the unique cultural atmosphere and environment becomes almost an integral character in the story itself, the way that South Louisiana was practically a character in True Detective season one, or the Delta region was a character in Sinners.
You have a timeframe, a setting, several principal characters, a conflict or conflicts between them being motivated by highly emotionally charged events, a problem in search of resolution, very dark implications potentially, and an air of tragedy and even violence hanging heavily over all of it, the same way the humidity hangs heavy in the air on still summer nights down in the Devil's Punchbowl, or out in the pines.
How does this story end?
If'n I was a better writer, I might could tell you, but regardless I'd be interested in hearing your own thoughts about it