Creepypasta Wiki:Writing Advice

This is a collection of writing advice blogs from various users, telling you what not to do in your stories, and giving advice on how to keep them from being deleted. Due to the assistance they provide and the validity of their content, they have been moved to this project page for safe-keeping. It is highly recommended you at least skim through these before you post a story to the wiki.

ChristianWallis

• Tenses, Aspects, Mood and Voice
• A Look at Ambiguity
• A Look at Style and Structure

EmpyrealInvective

• So We Deleted Your Story: An Overview
• So You Want to Make a Spinoff
• So You Want to Write a Journal Entry?
• So You Want to Write a Long Pasta
• So You Want to Write an NSFW Pasta

ImGonnaBeThatGuy

• How to Keep Your Story From Being Deleted
• Unsolicited Writing Advice!
• Maybe Don't Do These Things
• More Things to Avoid
• What is Poetry? (Or, Probably Why Your Poem Was Deleted)
• Why Your OC Got Your Story Deleted

Mikemacdee

• Tips for Writing Epistolary Fiction
• Proofread!
• Writing In Perspective

MrDupin

• Pasta Submission Basics
• For Non-Native English Speakers
• Guide to Monster-pastas

Noothgrush

• Huge Master List of Writing Resources
• Exercise — You Don't Have to Post Everything

RuckusQuantum

• Plot Twists and Tips

Senjumaru Shutara/Misoka the Witch

• Getting Back to Basics: Storytelling
• How to Write a Micropasta (Or, a Possible Reason Your Micro was Deleted)
• On the Subject of Character Development
• Original Elements (Possibly Why Your Elements Got Your Story Deleted)
• Making Titles
• Mary Stus and How to Avoid Them
• Second Person Perspectives - Why They're Hard to Write
• The Mystery Approach
• When and When Not to Explain Things
• What are Ellipses?

SoPretentious

• What Makes a Great Creepypasta?
• Selected List of Overused Words
• Quality Quotations
• Useful Tools for New Users

WaveDivisionMultiplexer

• Poetry: Types and Forms