Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-5034925-20140409181725/@comment-4832646-20140410193142

Agentskintaker wrote: It becomes pretty obvious that no one here has even studied serial killers. Usually there is no reason for it. The fantasies that he is talking about are very common amongst serial killers. Also they want you to be sickened. In away he is bragging that he got away with said crime, amongst others. It is kind of funny that people are so up in arms about this considering stories like http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Normal_Porn_for_Normal_People or http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Snuff_Film. These two are actually on this site and you can't tell me, they weren't written for shock value.

As for me throwing a fit, I couldn't care less at this point. I tried to be civil and everyone attacked me, then proceeded to take my words out of context to prove your own point. Maybe you're all insecure? I don't know and honestly, don't care. Either way, people here have approached the story in an unprofessional manner on this site. If you didn't like it, just say so and tell me what parts you didn't like or what parts you liked.

>implying that it's easy to write for shock value correctly

If there is no reason for him to be killing, don't put that there is, nor even imply it. Do something else that legitimately contributes to the story. It's that fucking simple.

This isn't even an actual story. It's randomly scattered events thrown together in a letter. A story has a plot, characters, and development. As far as taking your words out of context, we don't roll by your context of the story. We roll by what we read, what we can see. I'm sorry that you've decided to mistake our criticism of your precious little work for just hating on you.

Actually, scratch that, I'm not. You want to say "Here's where it all started:", then say it right. You just went straight over the shit hill of birth to midlife in less than 3 seconds. That's not telling us anything and it rushes the story.

If you're going to aim to make it sick and disgusting, don't disbalance it from the actual story but incorporate it, rather than failing and then complaining when someone tries to help.

But obviously, you've posted this thinking it would meet an immediate acceptance based just on the fact that you had shock value and didn't actually want criticism. As far as I'm concerned, congratulations. You've admitted that you've effectively only written this for shock value and put little to no effort in it at all whatsoever.