Talk:The Stone Man/@comment-25021327-20160116235532/@comment-5025667-20160118052411

Thanks for that, I appreciate it a lot more than you would probably think. I'm trying to get back into the habit and otherwise being around the wiki a lot more than I had been for the past year, so wanted to prove that by contributing and writing a new pasta for it.

As a matter of fact, those weren't intentional. One of those was meant to be a title drop that I forgot to change because it sounded too forced in. Other than that, I'll watch out for the others and adjust accordingly. As far as the flavorful use of words... always been a problem with me. I come from a poetry background, where each and every individual word you write down matters. And sometimes I go way too overboard with that, or leave sentence fragments as a result. xD

And yeah, Johnny Got His Gun was the main influence on it. I was actually listening to Metallica's "One" while writing most of it. The S&M version of it to be specific. Powerful writing, though either The Things They Carried or All Quiet on the Western Front are my favorite war novels. Other than that, also was influenced by I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream a little, as well as several stories that use being petrified as a trope. And play that as straight as I possibly could.

Anyway, glad I messaged you all in all. This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for!