A few months ago, I did something that felt surprisingly difficult. I deleted every social media app from my phone. Facebook. Instagram. Threads. TikTok. Everything.

There’s a special kind of nightmare reserved for indie authors—worse than bad reviews, worse than radio silence on release day. It’s the moment you realize you’ve unleashed an unedited chaos draft into the world… and it’s been there for a year.

If you want to write horror—whether psychological, supernatural, or slasher—you need to understand what makes the genre work.