Board Thread:Site Questions/@comment-39239022-20190425152109/@comment-35711173-20190425233705

Noodleoftheatom wrote: I'm thinking of making my own creepypasta, but I keep going through the ideas in my head to find out that they are all too similar to the stories already on the wiki. I'm not gonna take the ideas as they come forward, just use them to think up something orignal. Anyone got some ideas? Sites I can visit?

Personally, I don't look at Creepypastas to find the horror. I look at the world. The news has about the most horrible things going on now. I say that seriously. My best story came from the news and several others are related to real world events or possible real world events.

What I consider my next best story came from my own confrontation with addiction mixed with my religious beliefs.

My own nightmares gave me one.

I actually saw three of the stories happen, eyes on. Well, parts of them. Details and in one case the POV was changed to spice things up. As utterly horrible as a couple of the experiences were to me personally, I think I bored the Wiki with them.

Have you considered using outside research materials? For example, look for stories involving Slavic legends. If there are few, read a book on such legends. See if you find something that's never been used and that appeals to you. I did this with one story.

I've never done research by historical time period, but I can think of some pretty horrible place/times that I've never seen a story on. Things like the genocide of the Armenians by the Turks, the genocide of the Afrikaaners by the British, Civil War prison camps like Andersonville and Utica and Japanese biological warfare experiments by the Japanese on living test subjects. Educated people have been doing vivisection on other people for thousands of years in the name of science.