Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25685373-20141219155000/@comment-25428589-20141221233334

Shane Eyeless wrote: "Normal people turned serial killer via trauma" is a common template; I wouldn't be quick to call it a Jeff spin-off. However, it is a template that JtK uses. While you may not have necessarily taken inspiration from JtK, similarities between stories following this basic premise make the plot in all of them feel very alike. In fact, I would definitely call it a cliché. It gets extremely boring to read what is basically the same thing being rehashed, time and time again. This is why (I assume) stories that follow the same template as JtK are banned, even if the author doesn't want to be associated with that particular pasta.