Talk:The Only One They Ever Feared/@comment-25625305-20170725031051

Eeeeeeh... I mean, don't get me wrong, there were some concepts I liked here, like the concept of stupid false stories solidifying into real entities if enough people believe in them, or how missing no. is actually a protector of sorts, but the rest...

Well, it was little too reliant on pre existing pastas. Which, I guess it's "okay" for a theory pasta, but the theory itself was pretty silly sounding.

One of the top priorities when it comes to writing creepypasta (or ANY fictional story for that matter) is to make the lead up to the bizarre sounding truth-drop as believable as possible. The reader needs to have an opportunity to suspend their disbelief long enough to enjoy the crazy fictional stuff going on in the story. I can see that the whole "Solidification" thing was supposed to be that opportunity, but it alone was far too weak to hold up "creepypasta is real". When the story was like "BURIEDALIVE is real and has an army" there was no way I was going to buy that. It sounded incredibly dumb. And I'm not sure the idea of a pixilated corpse having an army would ever not be dumb.

My best advice is to try and draw inspiration from creepypasta you like rather than using it as a prop, and really look into the art of suspending a readers disbelief.