Talk:New Writer Guidelines/@comment-28872629-20160703014827

This is an incredible list, especially for someone like me who 1. is writing a haunted gaming CP, 2. is already an accomplished writer and 3. sees the most common cliches within other fandoms.

As Shadow th Absol mentions, it's shamful that a thirteen year old has been grammar than a twenty-four year old. That's not a diss on the thirteen year old, but assuming the twenty-four year is/has been to college, they should know how to spell, formulate a story structure, knows how to format paragraphs, etc. By the time you reach college, you should know how to write the standard essay, with proper sentence structure and grammar.

I do have a few questions - cause I always like to ask when I get into something new because I actually do the research -

1. For the horror/creepy story line, what games are you focusing on? Are you saying something along the lines of Resident Evil, Dead Space? Like, actual horror games or would something that has creepy bits be okay?

2. Is it okay to use a theory pasta within a creepy pasta?

I ask as, hopefully not giving anything away, I have this idea for a Luigi's Mansion CP. Originally, it started as a story around a particular gaming theory and then I ended up adding another theory to it. Yes, before you ask, I do have an explanation for both, that I think/hope they make sense and would make a reader go "okay, I can see that"

Obviously LM isn't scary, per se, but it's aimed for kids where as this idea would take the game and aim it at adults. Now before you say anything, the idea would be more along Hitchcock territory or along the lines of The Haunting (the 60s version, not the sh*tty 90/00s version) and not Nightmare on Elm Street. My fear, obviously, I'm hitting on cliches when I want to avoid that.

My other issue is that...I have never, in my life, written anything short. Even my short stories are long. Now, with that said, there's a lot of stuff in them, but I'm a little hesitant as I don't want someone to see this Tolkein-esque story and turn away from it.

I guess I'm looking for maybe a little further guidance on making my first CP a good CP; of course, I want it to be the most excellent CP ever, but I would be okay if my first pass was decent. I really don't want to land on the sh*t pasta list.