User blog comment:ImGonnaBeThatGuy/Why Your OC Got Your Story Deleted/@comment-14310129-20141021204033

Extremely well said. If I may add a point: Having a discrete and high profile CPC kills the suspense of disbelief, because then the reader is going to ask themslef a ton of followup questions: "Where are the police/Army?", "Why are the victims just standing around like idiots?", "Why dosen't someone just shoot it?" basicly all  the question people ask them self while watching bad and direvitive slasher flicks.

The best Creepypastas IMO are the ones that leave the reader with the sense that it may have happend or could happen, or that leave no obvious invesitgative trail (like a pile of bodies). Objective Monsters are just an option, but the subjective ones are more effective. And when making a monster its usually not good to charactrize it as 100% brainlessly evil, while malice may be a part of of it's character some more understandable motivations usually make it resonate better with audiences. Maybe the "monster" needs to eat so that's why people go disapearing, or it's been protecting its land for many many years and new housing developments burn down, or maybe it gets some kind of twisted joy from watching human suffering.

Millions of good idea's out there, no need to pick bad ones.