User blog comment:Dorkpool/Why Doesn't The Jeff Formula Work (And How To Fix It)/@comment-25987771-20150412153254

My most recent story, Pickens and Crest, was intended to be a sort of "anti-Jeff" story. It has a mentally disturbed kid in it, but he's not the protagonist, it's a middle aged Southern single mom.

I tried writing a character based around real-life signs of crazed children. I had a 'friend' growing up who would constantly do weird shit to me, often with pain on my end. Some of the things done in the story I took from him.

Also, Jeff is nearly a cartoon with the way he speaks. A mentally disturbed child should talk like a child, not an adult doing a parody of a serial killer.