Talk:The Smiling Man/@comment-29249491-20160724060425/@comment-29249491-20160728133201

"Besides, it got a little less scary," -- this is exactly my point in wanting the writing to be better. A story is only as scary as its writing allows it to be -- poor word choice can create a comical or frustrating effect and ruin the whole thing. Not to mention outright terrible writing that doesn't even make sense*glares at Happy Appy*

Meh, it's just that creepypasta is very lax writing group is all -- people don't post here (or any of the creepypasta wikis) to get revision notes, and most of them don't do revisions at all, or even get readers, before they post. I was reading many at a time and this one got to me particularly because it has such promise. I was most impressed by how simple the idea was, focused on two peculiar images, a big-ass grin on a silent guy who's staring up (staring up is, itself just odd as hell, people don't behave that way, which is the point) and then the cartoon tip-toe thing is the thing that really seals the deal.

This pasta should be damn good. I really hope it gets revised somewhere along the line. And, seeing as I figure this one will stick in people's minds for a long time, I do expect to see it sometime in my lifetime in another form. Stolen, yeah, but copywrite shouldn't last more than 5 years for exactly this reason -- sometimes, someone '''has to steal an idea from the original author, because it deserves to be done right. Also, things are just usually better as they get re-worked over time. I'd kill to see an original copy of the story that became Sir. . .Galahad? (nope, Gawain) and the Green Knight. I imagine it was very different than what we have today.'''

Anyway, this took 30 minutes or something, thus all the typos and such.