User blog:Tay-Toh/(NOT A CREEPYPASTA) Tay-Toh's guide to making a good pasta

=Introduction= This is not a creepypasta. This is a guide on how to make better pastas. If you want a creepypasta, read my pasta "A hacker in our midst". It's another blog post of mine. Hello. I make pastas and rate them. The pastas I make are supposed to be examples of 7/10 to 10/10 overall ratings on my rating system. The rating system works like this. The comment starts with the following: This pasta has been eaten (fully read) by me. I will proceed to rate it now.

Cliché counter: x/7

Originality rating: x/10

Creepiness: x/10

Realistic: x/10

Randomness: x/5

Structure: x/10

Length: x/6

Detail amount: x

Detail use: x/5

Overall: x/10

How to improve:

X is what I change out for numbers. So, first, I will give examples to -5/10, -4/10, 0/10, and I will tell you the name of a 10/10 pasta example I made, then tell about higher-than-ten rated pastas.

=Part 1 - Examples=

Negative Five Rating
ok so hcker said hello

This pasta would get -5/10 overall. The rating would appear like this:

This pasta has been eaten (fully read) by me. I will proceed to rate it now.

Cliché counter: 0/7 (Perfect!)

{When I put these here, it's not part of the rating. These are comments. They end with the other curly bracket. Anyway, despite 0/7 cliches this is still not good. Everything else adds up. Think of this and originality as multipliers.}

Originality rating: 10/10 (This is original.)

Originality rating: 0/10 (Happens all the time.)

Creepiness: 0/10 (Happens all the time)

Realistic: - 10/10 (This happens all the time)

{Note the - before 10/10. This means that it's truly -1, but technically it is very realistic, but it hurts the overall score. If the - is on the number, it means it truly is the number's value. Randomness is a negative rating towards overall. So it's really -5 on this pasta. Cliché counter is a negative multiplier towards originality. Everything else that has no prefix to the number or has - before the number without a space in between - and the number shows the actual value.}

Randomness: 1/5 (Weird twist, but it's not fatal to the pasta's quality.)

Structure: 0/10 (No grammar here...)

Length: -1/5 (Less than a sentence)

Detail amount: 0

Detail use: 0/6 (There is no detail!)

Overall: -5/10 (wut)

How to improve: {Ignore this for now. We'll talk about this after the examples.}

Negative four rating
hello so I said hi everyone in game from roblx nd hcker said hello Ik it was hcker bc he had hack in his name but even creepier is how my cat said meow right when he said hello

This pasta would receive a -4/10 rating. It would look like this.

This pasta has been eaten (fully read) by me. I will proceed to rate it now.

Cliché counter: 0/7 (Perfect!)

Creepiness: 0/10 (This happens all the time)

Realistic: - 10/10 (This happens all the time)

Randomness: 5/5 (Pick a plotline)

Structure: 0/10 (Wall of text has awoken!)

Length: 0/5 (A line? Really?)

{This example was made before I added detail things}

Overall: -4/10 (What did I just read?!)

How to improve: {Ignore this for now. We're going to talk about how to craft a better pasta in a bit}.

Zero rating
Hello. I have found a hacker in a game. He used fly exploits and no clip. His username was (username) {im using (username) because this is an example pasta, not an actual creepypasta. Just pretend there's an actual username there.} and I reported him. What happened will shock you.

NOTHING.

This pasta has been eaten (fully read) by me. I will proceed to rate it now.

Cliché counter: 0/7 (Perfect!)

Originality rating: 5/10 (The main idea is similar to other pastas)

Creepiness: 1/10 (Happens all the time, yet still contains something a little creepy)

Realistic: - 10/10 (Happens all the time)

Randomness: 0/5 (Sweet!)

Structure: 6/10 (Not challenging to read)

Length: 1/5 (Enjoyable)

{Again, this was made before I made detail-related things ratings, so none here.}

Overall: 0/10 (Trollpasta)

How to improve: {Again, ignore this. I'm going to go over this later.)

Ten rating
I have created a creepypasta inspired by something that really happened to me! It's called "A hacker in our midst" and it was inspired by the fact that someone was terminated but in a game playing with me (and unfortunately, hacking).

Fourteen rating
I did not create the following pasta, someone else did. I found it while using the random page button. My rating is on there as a comment if you want to read it. Randomness is new so it doesn't have it. But, the pasta that I rated is this pasta. https://robloxcreepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Gooses%27s_Shelter

=Part 2: How to craft a better pasta=

In this guide, I will talk about how to improve each rating. If you use all advice given here, you could end up with a 15/10 pasta! Now, there are certain things I consider cliché. Most of them are on the clichés page on this wiki (get to it on the homepage). But some of those I disagree with. I disagree with the hacker finding you in real life, and hyper-realistic stuff being clichéd. In my opinion this just adds more to detail and the hacker finding you adds more to creepiness but, like most creepy things, takes away realisticness.

Cliché counter
Here are the things on creepypastas that I find a lot and consider cliché:

Lots of gore and/or blood (Missing limbs counts too)

Zalgo text

"This is not creepypasta, this is actually real!"

"GUYS HE MIGHT HACK YOU TOO WATCH OUT!"

Some red thing appearing and you touching it then weird stuff happens

You've accepted a random person's friend request even though you haven't even gotten to chat in game and weird crap happens with them!

AHH YOU TYEPD TEH PASTA FAST SO NOT GOOD GRAMMER

Oh no! My computer bluescreened because I played a roblox game!

AHH ITS 3:00 AM AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHh

oh god the word satan is there

AHHHHHHHHHHH A DEMONIC SYMBOL

ow the game is hurting me in real life

ahhhhhhhhhhhh I cant leave the game aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

So yeah. I only consider 13 things clichéd about roblox creepypastas so far. This list will continue to expand as I rate more pastas, and find out more about what's clichéd and what's not.

Originality Rating
If you're inspired by another pasta, what I'd recommend is not copying the main idea, but the type of creepiness (Hackers, PC viruses, etc) so it's original and nice. Expanding the pasta while adding your own ideas helps too.

Creepiness
First off, I don't consider "yey" creepy. It's just playful. But, I recommend adding your own freaky things that you fear. Just be careful! You need at the very least good grammar.

Like I said in the clichés, the fast-typing excuse is cliched in my opinion. And yes, I meant to say grammer there. If you're typing fast, spelling and grammar are the least of your worries. And adding things to support it can help. And, the more creepy things you need, the less support you need to add for new things to happen.

Realistic
This is a realistic 0 pasta: "GUYS A HACKER HACKED MY ACCOUNT AND THEN GOT CONTROL OF MY COMPUTER THEN STREETLIGHTS THEN THE WHOLE WORLD LOST POWER FOR A SECOND!"

First off, the world hasn't lost power EVERYWHERE AT ONCE in a very long time (Over 100 years!) Add supporting details! And images won't hurt. But you can skip the images by making the story look like you just remembered it from years ago.

Randomness
Randomness is the second most easy thing to solve. (Length is the easiest). Plot twists and stuff (like the hacker just being your friend who you gave your password to pranking you all along) are fine, but just random weird occurances like "so I said hello in real life and I got scared because I heard hello and left" is just weird! And random. Make sure to keep a stable plotline.

You would do it like this: So I met this guy in bloxburg. Let's just call him ant. He hacked and was very creepy." instead of this: "Ant started threatening my account after I logged on roblox today". Reading that would make the reader go "Who the heck is ant???". And random characters (like this: ok so today I went on roblox and u90wemt98wen98yN(#NT@(*FOI@JMERIU@J#NIOFMDIkfwmsoijdnmwioewtktimjweormwejitowmejkr) is the maximum randomness (The rating is literally called "Did you just smash your keyboard with a rubber mallet and call it a day?") and is 6/5 randomness (basically -6 total score).

Structure
Structure is nice if you have like little dividers splitting the days up. If you're trying to make a good pasta, use good grammar! And use paragraphs. All of these rating guides are technically just a few paragraphs.

But don't make it just a big wall. That's not good. Use "quotation marks" to separate thoughts and speech from the rest of the pasta. Unless you want it to look like some guy is thinking about or saying half of the pasta. That's no fun. That can literally bleach the creepiness out of the pasta.

Length
Do I need to talk about this? Just write more of the pasta to increase this.

Overall
Overall, the average isn't used in overall. For example, realistic has more value than creepiness. Some details can be keys to increase/decrease overall score. It's the amount and use that act like multipliers. I actually use my own program to calculate this. One that I coded on my own.

Double Trouble: Detail
There's 2 detail ratings!

Detail amount
This is just the amount of details. There are no quotes for these. It's how they are used that get quoted in our next rating, Detail Use.

Detail Use
Detail use has 5 bonus points, too. In my program, this is multiplied by the amount of detail divided by a number (so this is a multiplier) to get added to the current number which then THAT different number gets averaged, not the average of all absolute values of these ratings. So, here's a 0/6 detail use example (With the detail use being they are all in the same place) There was a odd, huge, white player who was also very tall. There was also a rectangular prism next to them 6/6 detail use example: There was a strange white player that was weirdly large in front of me. Next to him was an elongated block that wasn't perfectly smooth. 11/6 detail use example: There was a weird white player who was large and had 3 shadows. And there was a red brick with many strange dots on it. There was even a huge dot on it. And it was near the center.

=Part 3: Getting the better rating=

Handpicked Overall
I use a very carefully programmed robot to calculate the overall. It rates pastas like I do, except it's completely non-biased. However, if the robot is being unfair (like rating a good-quality pasta badly or a bad-quality pasta well) then I will handpick the overall. It used to do this all the time In the early days of it's existance (so I still handpicked), but I fixed the robot, and I think it's being quite fair.

Keep it related
Keep it related to roblox! The more related to roblox it is, the higher quality of pasta! This is actually coming soon as a rating. Straying away from roblox is sometimes fine, just make sure to return. Or. if it comes from roblox and bugs you outside roblox, this rating isn't affected.

And, don't be worried if it like starts from youtube or something. If it's roblox themed, it can be fine, but staying away from it too long (around 20% or more of the pasta, unless it's chat) can damage the Related rating.

The related rating will be from 0 to 10, with a bonus of 11 available. The formula on how it works in the bot goes like this: (current pasta rating) * ((related / 10) + 0.1) = overall rating.

So yeah. 10 means it keeps 100% of the value of the pasta, 11 means it keeps 110% (so a 10% boost), and 0% means it's an instant 0/10 pasta. Related will be disabled if the pasta is lower than 0/10 before getting the related rating.

Express your ideas
Express all of your ideas for the pasta vibrantly. This will not only help the pasta if handpicked, but it will increase the detail use rating too. Don't be afraid to have a long pasta! It's better the longer it is!

Work-In-Progress Pastas
If your pasta is WIP, it will delay the rating until ready. However, it's best to tell everyone it's WIP. WIP pastas tend to be more random and with cliffhangers due to it suddenly ending.

It's okay to take a long break on your pasta. It won't damage the rating. I can understand myself - I'm also a professional programmer and I used to program games all the time and now I'm taking a break from doing it due to me wanting to get new concepts for games and think of different strategies on how to code certain things. And, on the topic of games, this brings us to our next topic.

Interactive Pastas
I'm going to release an interactive pasta example shortly, but anyway, these are rated the same as normal pastas, except the realistic rating is -/10 (It's a game, no rating). The realistic is equivelant to 10 by default, and adding pictures seriously benefits the pasta. Adding videos doesn't help, infact, it kind of hurts the rating because the video prevents you from being in control. Sounds help about as much as images.

I handpick the overall rating for all interactive pastas. I also think you should add headlines to each choice so that it's accessible by the top menu and doesn't provide spoilers.

=Part 4: The Simplified Ratings=

Reading a lot of pastas
When my activity status is 1 (look on my profile for more info), I use the following rating system instead of my usual:

I feel like reading a lot of creepypastas right now, so my ratings are simplified to just an overall. This pasta's overall rating: x/10. For more info, reply to this comment if you want me to give a full rating.

So yeah. Like usual, X will be replaced by another number.

Interactive pasta ratings
I have a different rating format for interactive pastas. It goes like this.

Hello. I've played this interactive pasta game, now to rate it!

Visuals: x/5

Choices: x/5

Creepiness: x/5

Originality: x/5

Cliches: x/7

Overall: x/5

Like I said, I handpick the ratings for these.

Simplified interactive pasta ratings
So sometimes I will have 1 status and try to read a lot of pastas. When I rate an interactive pasta during this, it appears like this:

I feel like reading a lot of creepypastas right now, so my ratings are simplified to just an overall. This pasta's overall rating: x/5. For more info, reply to this comment if you want me to give a full rating.

So it's the same as normal, except with 5 overall.

=End of blog post= You've reached the end! Feel free to comment your advice in the comments - i'll add it here. And feel free to suggest new ratings. And feel free to comment your pasta for me to rate it!