Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24933431-20140907171806/@comment-25394259-20140908225629

Don't start with a question. I read on one of the wiki's many help articles that the post goes on even if the answer is no. Assume that the reader has indeed heard those noises and play with that idea. Try to tell the reader, "Seriously, this whole time, there's been a thing outside your window. No, seriously, and if you'd gone to look you'd be god knows where. You're lucky to be alive." Don't end it on "no one ever sees them again" (capitalize the N in no) because that's not scary. I took a dump one time and flushed it down the toilet, and nobody ever saw that again either. Say something like "All that was left behind was X" or "the last anybody heard was X noise". Sure, it's still pretty cliche but it's more interesting.