Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10319977-20141226134502/@comment-5784644-20150111143535

Cyanwrites wrote: I guess I just don't get what a micropasta is, or what differentiates it from a five word story, because I still can't understand what so great about the one in the OP. I have to put a lot of imagination into it to get anything out. I may as well start from scratch and just think up a story by myself.

Stories in general, no matter the genre, give the reader enough information to form imagination around in a way or ways that the author intended them to.

Maybe that's why people didn't like my micropasta. The only two real possibile scenarios are that it's instantly creepy due to the disturbing implications that the Marionette's a real corpse, or it's stupid because it could all just be mundane and pointless instead. There's no broad spectrum of possible outcomes like the OP one had.

With this in mind, here's another attempt;

"They're coming. Help us all." I'm not sure about that one... Don't get me wrong, you're on the right track! It's just that the implications aren't as strong in this one and to be honest, it seems pretty cliché.