User blog:MiXiPixel/How I write my stories

A lot of people wonder how I came up with such a smooth, original, and straight plot for my stories.

Let me explain.

1 - Avoiding Cliches
Let's think of creating the series of events in a story as an obstacle course.

On the obstacle course is cliches.

A lot of stories crash into the cliches and keep on going, which creates a cliched story with an unoriginal plot.

Other people might crash into the cliche, but then back away and go around it.

What I do is sort of like paving my own clear obstacle course. To avoid as many cliches as possible, I do something that I feel is very original. In the case of "An innovative way to go out..", I noted the fact that there weren't many stories in the first person view of the Antagonist. So, I went with a plot that works well with an Antagonist narrator. I also noted that a lot of stories dive into creepy people or even hackers. I wanted to avoid as many already used things as possible, so I went with an AI, and it used Roblox to train itself.

It's actually pretty simple - Read some stories and think about things that would fit in a creepypasta but you haven't seen. If you string together the correct ones, you can build a smooth and original plot.

2 - Coming up with Ideas
One of the beautiful things Part 1 brings is a easy plotline, which you can easily add ideas to. It honestly writes itself. One thing I like to do is keep the plot consistent. Minimal diversions from the actual plot, to create a very smooth, stable, and straight plot. Think of the plot like a sidewalk - very delicate, and if you put the wrong ideas into it, it will break apart and crack. It can also become distorted and wavy, usually by writers struggling to avoid cliches.

Make sure your idea fits well into the story. Establish a foundation deep within the plot to build the rest of the story on.

Don't be afraid to use real, local ideas too. Don't use major ideas, and try not to use the past and modify it. Instead, do something like I did with "An innovative way to go out..." and make it similar to the event, sort of like an alternate future.

An Innovative Way To Go Out... (I'll just refer to it as AIWTGO) actually partially happened in the game it was inspired by. A few days after creating it, I had made advanced AI bots. I didn't add a neural network in them and they can't interface the game directly though, so don't worry, they won't destroy Roblox... yet.

AIWTGO was actually inspired by my own game, believe it or not!

3 - Practice
Is "An Innovative way to go out..." my first creepypasta? Yes.

Is it my first scary story? Definitely no.

I've told hundreds, if not thousands of scary stories to my friends before. Another thing you can do to practice is analyze nightmares. If you have nightmares, analyze them. Do they actually scare you? Are they realistic? Think of ways you could have improved it.

My first scary story was absolutely awful. A big mistake people make is establishing their first creepypasta as their first scary story, or atleast close to it. An example of someone doing this mistake is in Funky Friday Deleted Beach Brother (might be deleted)

And as for telling scary stories, I don't mean once every like 2 weeks. I mean, really make scary stories, atleast twice per week.

4 - Feedback
It's fine if you practice a lot and are good at making creepypastas, but otherwise please don't blindly make a creepypasta all in one go and publish it without feedback. It could have cliches or Plotholes. Plotholes are another issue - to avoid them, you have to keep the rest of the story in mind while writing.

5 - Avoiding Plotholes
Plotholes are awful and can affect even the best of us.

A basic but effective way to avoid them is to re-read and intepret the story after you're done writing it.

But it's easier to avoid them directly, by keeping the events in mind and the plot structure in mind whilst writing. Plotholes are most commonly made after resuming a paused pasta after a while. Before you start working on an unfinished pasta, try re-reading it first, getting a grip of the current events and what needs to happen.