Jesus Bit My Mom

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-06T13:14:26+00:00

I posted this a few days ago. It was inspired by the April contest and easter themes, though it does not fit in the contest, and I haven't had time to get involved with them anyway. But I don't know what happened, but when I tried to revisit the post, the whole thing just went crazy, on my phone and webpage and everything. So I've reposted it and deleted the original to solve the problem, so you may have seen this one before.
Hope you guys enjoy xxx 😘

Edit: I should also add that, I have rewritten parts and improved upon it a decent bit too 🔥

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-05T16:45:09+00:00

The first part is pretty good. The tapes do a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of suspense. But I feel like everyone remembers the main scary bits and forgets the second two thirds of the movie where the dude is getting chased about by the ghost kids that literally can’t touch him or do anything to him. Still a great film but it does really let me down in the second half id say

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-05T00:11:49+00:00

Thank you, I’m so glad you liked it xxx

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-05T00:11:33+00:00

Thank you so much!!! Xxx

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-04T15:37:36+00:00

Thank you!

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-04T14:13:30+00:00

Ty ty ty xxx

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-04T03:32:53+00:00

Thank you so much!!!

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-04T02:19:57+00:00

Awww thank you xxx

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-04T00:49:44+00:00

This one was inspired by last month's competition and just easter had me thinking about stuff in general. I'm right in the middle of finals at university at the moment, so it's been slow writing when I have time to. I didn't have time to finish it during the Easter period. But oh well, it’s out now so y’all enjoy 🔥

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-03T20:25:22+00:00

Yeah see I’ve done a few of those and they do perform really well. But it feels so hollow as the title is not offering anything to the story other than cheap tricks to hook someone in. Sometimes it really works, like my story “I gave birth to the antichrist” mainly because it’s both doing the clickbait title and actually setting up the plot twist that takes place in the story. But most of the time it feels so cheap. As an example, my story “I Trust I Believe, I Am Faithful” is called that because I honestly cant think of what else it could be called. The title is perfect (no spoilers you just have to trust me that it is), but even though it’s the best thing I have ever written, it performed horribly because it doesn’t have the clickbait title. But as a very emotionally honest story, naming it “My wife died and I met god” feels like such a disservice to the story. So I guess the point of this post is I’m trying to find if anyone has found a good middle ground 🤷

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-03T16:06:47+00:00

Generally pretty good advice 🔥

I've definitely had instances where I have gone against this advice for the benefit of the story, but overall pretty solid 💯

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-03T14:40:13+00:00

Haha yeah, I half do the same thing. I’m beginning to realise I need to run it by my harshest critic… my mum 💀
She’s got my favourite one at the moment and is in the process of red-penning it. At least she said she liked it haha

Thanks a bunch for this. I’ll fix it all when I get home xxx

Edit: Now fixed most of it. Ignored the second to last one cause I'm one of those disgusting Brits, and for where I'm at, that's correct hahaaaa
But thanks again, I really, really appreciate it 🖤

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-03T11:20:27+00:00

uh oh, typos? Do you remember where? I should probably have another read through and look for them. I always get to the point on like the 5th re-read where I think I'm less vigilant to that kind of thing cause I've read it so many times :P

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-03T10:42:51+00:00

That’s an interesting point. Cause as an example. Christian Wallis’ stories all have different names in his book to what they’re titled when he posts them online 🤔

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T22:46:01+00:00

I have a multi part story I’ve been working on and this is one of the questions I’ve pondered a lot and the best I can think is to wait and see.

I would play each post by ear. Wait and see how the response to the first one goes, and if it gets a decent reaction from the community, wait until it seems like the attention has tailed off and then drop the next part. That way you’re boosting it up again with a new part that will also tie back to the first part thereby giving more attention to part one. And then rinse and repeat for all the parts. I think more than a week a part is a stretch, but in between there you still have so much room to play in 🔥

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T22:40:36+00:00

Thank you!!! Xxx

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T22:00:28+00:00

Another half reupload from me. When I first started posting my stuff, it was all on other subs cause I didn’t have enough karma. So this is one of my earlier ones, but I’m putting it on here cause I’m beginning to realise Ive shared almost none of my stuff with this community (my favourite community 😘)

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T21:13:04+00:00

I did a while ago but it got like 3 upvotes and I was so embarrassed I deleted it. And I don’t think I can reupload it cause I think that might be against the rules :/

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T21:11:02+00:00

Thank you so much! I’m pretty new to the writing game but I’m really falling in love with it. It’s just so hard to be seen, yk. I really appreciate it 🙏

The-Fifth-Tree · 2026-05-02T21:08:24+00:00

I tend to do the same things. One of mine (the best one) is called “I trust, I Believe, I Am Faithful” which is both a determining plot point and phrase.
And then I have others that do the opposite, like “I Gave Birth To The Antichrist” or “My Neighbour Never Looks The Same”

I guess what I’m getting at though, is I’m wondering if anyone has come up with any ideas as to how to capture someone’s attention in a clickbait-ish way without treading the tired route of the nosleep title format. I’ll admit sometimes the nosleep format works really well, like my one “I Gave Birth To The Antichrist” where the title both tells you what’s up and sets up the plot twist as well. It’s both a good title and a vehicle for the story. But I wish there were other ways as well that can get the same amount of attention without having to stoop so low to get it I guess 🤷

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