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It can overwhelm the reader if introduced to early, but Segel and Miller studied their craft books because they mastered this skill. To be plausible, the alternate world should be as detailed as the contemporary one with structure, organization, and policies. With this quick brief character description, Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller make the dark come alive.Īs a writer, I find world building as terrifying as a nightmare. I bet kids and adults (me again) are not afraid of a person lurking in the shadows, but that the darkness itself will reach out and smother you. Think about what happens when the lights go out. Its long, tendril-like fingers stroked the air.” It was sleek and black, without eyes, mouth, or features. Okay, did you get a retired military man? Oh I hope so! Let me give you a better QBCD. His cropped hair, shirt buttoned to the neck, and spit-shined shoes told me insisting would be insulting. I rushed to open the door, but the elderly man took it from me. And I was amazed!Įarly in my writing career, I learned about QBCD (Quick Brief Character Description.) Unless it’s a main character, a QBCD is all you need to give the character purpose and backstory. When I read NIGHTMARES I tried to read like a kid, but found myself analyzing the characters and world building. We apply everything we learned from conferences, critique partners, and craft books. Our brains dissect characters, dialogue, sentence structures, and plots. Writers read differently, even when reading for entertainment. NIGHTMARES, written by talented authors, has an original and relatable plot, and a character full of fear, loneliness, anger, jealousy. I love creepy stories now, but as a kid, I knew a monster lived under my bed. And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. well, that’s something only Charlie can face. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect.He had to move into her purple mansion-the creepiest place in Cypress Creek.His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.It’s legend – wait for it – dary!) But this book has much more than his name on the cover.

(If you haven’t seen the show, check it out. He played Marshal Eriksen on my favorite television show, How I Met Your Mother. A Book Review From a Writer’s Perspective.Ĭonfession – I bought this book because of Jason Segel.