Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26326346-20170322074930/@comment-26326346-20170322133435

I decided that two smilies were too much and removed one of them, especially how close together they were in the story.

Oh, good! I was wanting a mix between odd and normal, actually.

In my opinion, the letter collector would have to be able to appear normal some of the time because if s/he was going around raising red flags, then they'd likely get figured out/caught. I also need to make sure that the person isn't be too normal because not only would that be boring, but I'd like to think that a killer would be a bit unhinged/prone to giving away telltale signs of having something off about them, but one would have to look really closely to catch it. So maybe this killer recognizes that, but is able to find a way to let the outbursts out in enough of a controlled manner that s/he doesn't/can't get caught from it (that level of foresight is rather terrifying). I'm trying to do a balancing act of odd and normal... with maybe a smidgen of intellect, considering how well read and uncaught the killer is!

My main goal with writing this was to do something odd and to try and do a play on the Creepypastas that go "You read this and now are going to die". I've tried twisting that into "You read this and now are going to die if you met this specific criteria that is generic enough that it will apply to a lot of people. Oh, you didn't die? Must not have been that person or it is busy happening to other people."

I used to do stories that were plausible, but really a stretch and I wanted to veer back into that territory with this one.