User blog comment:Dorkpool/Creepypasta Riffs: Bad Dream Debbie/@comment-4715955-20150311220059

Not a terribly interesting or funny riff, to be honest. I've been doing fanfic riffs since the 90's (back when it was briefly a hip thing to do) and learned a lot of do's and don'ts. It's important to keep the riffs concise, and to not use one for every single line of the story you're riffing: too many riffs chops the narrative into too many pieces, making it impossible to digest. Formatting is important, too, to make it easier to separate the riffs from the narrative. It's also more effective if you have a cast of characters who perform the riffs for one reason or another, like Mystery Science Theater 3000: a riff for its own sake is a drag to read, because I don't know or care about the riffer(s). Adding character and continuity to the riffs makes them more enjoyable.

I do a fanfic/pasta riff series on my site called Fan-Friction if you want to see examples. Just don't link them to the original authors, 'cos they tend to get butthurt and I don't need help getting hate mail.