Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Welcome to Horrordailies!

It's October, and Zenzalei reminded me that means it's time for Horrordailies, in which I post something sort of spooky every day. Last month, I made it 11 days before giving up. (I thought I'd made it through the entire month, but Blogger tells me otherwise.)

Confession: I'm not really into horror or spooky things. I'm not even a pumpkin spice girlie.

(Tangent: Okay, I can't even say girlie with a straight face. I'm 56. It just sounds like Steve Buscemi saying "How do you do, fellow kids?")

(Tangent to the tangent: I'm going to be sad when the internet goes away because I was able to search for "Joe Pesci Hello fellow kids" and it gave me the actual reference.)

ANYHOW... Maybe if I use this as an excuse to do tutorials to learn new things, I will get beyond 11 days this year. No promises.

After much screwing around, I followed parts of this tutorial.

Welcome to Horrordailies.



Details:

The font is Rubik Glitch. If I did it again, I might use something else because some of the letters are hard to read.

GIMP modifications: I used Filter->Render->Noise->Solid Noise instead of Cloud Noise and the mode was "Dodge" instead of "Color Dodge".

2 comments:

MissMeliss said...

Welcome to HorrorDailies. I love your spin on it. I DON'T know your books. Where should I begin? -- MissMeliss

Theresa B (of Nebulopathy) said...

Ooh, it depends a bit on what you like to read:

Cozy mysteries? Death Walks a Dog (Tess Baytree)
Space westerns? The Chaos Job (T.M. Baumgartner)
Contemporary science fantasy? All Gremlins Great & Small (T.M. Baumgartner)
Urban fantasy (with a twist)? Theoretical Magic (T.M. Baumgartner)
Adventure fantasy? Dragon Freehold (T.M. Baumgartner)
Space Opera? Independent Flight (T.M. Baumgartner)

The first couple listed are free, so that's a no-commitment way to see if my writing is for you. A lot of my fans read across genres, so if you like one, there's a good chance you'll like them all!