Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27838637-20160228064535/@comment-27882718-20160228073311

What you can do is make the story into a diary type story, making it intriuging and if you do it right, scary. Ex: Day 1: I've been assigned on a case about a man that seems to lure his victims in, and then injects rat poison through their arteries. Sounds delightful. For the plot, just make sure to keep your line straight. Take some time to read some of the cliche stories and see what they all have in common, and do the exact opposite. And don't say blood on the floor. That's a HUGE cliche. Your story sounds kinda abstract. But abstract is good. Right now, I'm doing a story about a teenager who was dared to go into an asylum. Eventually the teenager gets lost and starts turning crazy, then starts thinking that there is no escape, and then it turns out that he is not real at all, and the asylum is just his progatory, where he is seen tested on whether or not he is to be sent to heaven, or hell. I would love to see the serial killer be someone average, then finds someone out on the web or something, catfishes them into his "secret lair", and then tortures them by slowly killing them with poison. But other than that, the story sounds GREAT. I would love to read sometime :)