Write Creepypasta
Have you recently read creepy pasta online? Was it scary? Bone chilling? Makes you want to wet yourself? Think you can do better? Well, it's worth a shot.
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Steps
- Have vision and creativity. This is the first step to creating any piece of art, especially stories. A good indicator of vision is when the phrase "what if" is used. Some good examples are: What if someone hides outside your room every night waiting for the perfect chance to kill you? What if there's a demon that is possessing your loved ones and killing them off? The possibilities for your stories are limitless.
- Know the elements of horror. Think of what scares you, and why it scares you. Being alone, darkness, imminent danger, and things that seem normal but are somewhat off tend to be scary things. But why do these things scare you? It tends to be that it's our natural response to things that could be dangerous (in relation to surviving in the wilderness). We are never completely sure if something is hiding in the darkness. Being alone means that you don't have the power of being in numbers to fight predators. Knowing there's imminent danger is a more obvious example, and when you know something is off, you simply can't trust it to be safe. Knowing what scares you and why it does will allow you to write great creepypasta.
- Decide what your creepy pasta will be about. An abandoned building? A meme, like Slender Man or Zalgo? A failed experiment? A ghostly serial killer? A crazy person? There are many great topics for creepy pasta, and the possibilities are endless.
- Develop your characters and your setting. Remember that this is not a novel, so you don't have to be too in-depth.
- Start writing the plot. For creepy pasta, a first-person narrative is usually the most effective. How will it begin? A dark, tall man lurking in the woods? A series of entries from a failed government project? A person going and purchasing a demonic doll that happens to like mutilating children? Usually, a more morbid beginning is better, but remember, there may be kids out there reading your pasta.
- Edit, edit, edit! Most first drafts aren't perfect. If you want your pasta to be successful, then editing is a must. Edit them once a day, re-read them and repeat the following day. Remember to look out for nasty grammar and spelling errors!
- Publish it, whether on your website, another website or even a creepypasta wiki.
Tips
- Be careful not to use too many cliches. For example, cramming the word "blood" into your story for shock value over and over again. Too many cliches can turn your creepy pasta into a laugh fest!
- Make sure what you write isn't immature and make sure it makes sense.
- Make sure you handle serious subjects like rape, murder, and violence against minors and/or animals with maturity and respect; otherwise the reader will notice very quickly that you are merely trying to shock the audience, you could also offend a large majority of readers with this insensitivity. Remember it's not about censoring yourself, it's about having respect for other people's views.
- Make your story subtle, don't overdo the plot. Also, try not to create a Mary Sue character, if female.
- Be open to criticism. If you do not take suggestions, your pasta may not be as popular as it could've been. Remember that it's not what you want, it's what they want.
- Don't overuse plots, like a Lost Pokémon Game.
- Don't go in too much depth into small details, such as saying "hyper-realistic blood"
Warnings
- Remember that if you post it on a wiki, other people may make improvements to it. Not all of these 'improvements' will be good, so you may want to check on it occasionally to see if there has been vandalism, spam or simply just bad editing.
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