Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35711173-20180804233042/@comment-35711173-20180807180712

Actually, a big enough error in the beginning really does ruin my suspension of disbelief. The sooner it is, the more ruined it is. I think that is because I only have the little bit I have seen. I remember there was a rifle built up to being some ultra computer controlled wonder weapon in the first minute of the pilot of a TV series called "Earth, Final Conflict." I have one. They are an obsolete battle rifle, accurate enough for minutes of enemy at 100 meters but no target rifle. Like a first impression with meeting a person, my first impression of the series that I will always remember is that cheap, little rifle. If they had made exactly the same mistake in the middle of the fifth episode it wouldn't be memorable.

As most creepypasta is relatively short, you don't have much time to get it right and everything is too close to the beginning to get it wrong.