Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-31477126-20170823183346/@comment-24101790-20170823191826

Stex85 wrote: No worries! I'll do that in future. So am I best off bailing on this one due to the sleep paralysis thing? Saves me a re write if so! :)

Your choice, you could make it work, but a lot of the issue is that it can reach a point of over saturation where the author needs to put in a lot of time to make it stand out from the rest. For example, at one time we got dozens of Deep Web stories a week that were all nearly identical in premise (download Tor, go on Deep Web, see something disturbing) due to it being a popular YouTube theme.

While sleep paralysis isn't the most popular genre currently, we still have a dozen or so stories floating around on the wiki that tell a similar plot. I'm not going to discourage you from writing it if you feel like you really want to make something of the story, I just want to relay that we tend to hold similar stories up to other ones to prevent a bit of an echo chamber of certain stories (like proxy stories). Best of luck with whatever you decide.