Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-33077235-20180922002654/@comment-7064562-20180925054136

NedWolfkin wrote: Resdraon wrote: As I've said, go to barns and noble. Pick up some hunger games, harry potter, maze runner, or pretty much any popular novel, and study the first chapter. He doesn't even have to do that, this site has good stories that can give a good example. He doesn't have to do anything. However, I find popular and published novels a better teaching tool for people clearly new at everything. Maybe something by S. King (Though personally, I hate his works) if you want to stay on horror, though that might be a tad advanced.

See, I've found a lot of popular Pastas are horribly paced, have questionable grammar, or just pretty bad. Such as the "classics", like Sonic.exe or Jeff the killer. Throw in the fact that while a tad strict, posting a story on here is rather simple, and as we are on a creepypasta site and his story is pretty much a wall-mart version of several other livestream/game stories, it's clear he's been taking influence from other's works already. A good look at YA, Classic, or other types of popular novels outside the community could only help him.

But of course, the same logic of studying stories can be implied to many of the pasta's here. I suggest looking at the monthly winners like DrBobber said.