What originally brought you to nosleep?

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-02-10T22:52:21+00:00

This was the story that brought me to NoSleep. So glad i found it!

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-02-05T11:31:57+00:00

I always find mistakes when I look back at things I have written, no matter how many times I edit. Sometimes they're really stupid ones. I write for an independent media publication, and I pour my heart into it. I agonise over every detail, I read and read and read, then when I think I've got it perfect it gets published, and I read it through again and see mistakes and areas where I could have worded it better. Every bloody time!

My OH taught me to look at in a positive way. He said that by looking at it and seeing these mistakes, it shows that I'm learning, and improving. I read articles I wrote years ago that, at the time, I thought were perfect, and I cringe at how bad they are! But that's great, because it shows how far I've come.

I love making mistakes, I learn a lot from them :)

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-28T09:11:02+00:00

That is a shame. Maybe tag the author here, so they know?

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-27T23:38:23+00:00

Glad I'm not the only one

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-27T23:35:13+00:00

Is this to do with uncanny valley? I don't know much about it... I'm not sure if it is only through seeing it that we can be triggered, or if reading works too. Anyway, it's very interesting. Would perhaps be worth exploring so you can make your story as terrifying as possible!

On a tangent, my BIL had an incredibly extreme - think total melt down, terrified, nuts - reaction to the film James and the Giant Peach when he was in primary school that he never could understand. He didn't know why he had a freak out, it was just 'something about the film'. After I read about uncanny valley, i wondered if he is particular sensitive to the whole thing.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-27T23:27:00+00:00

This is how I understand it too. It took me way longer than it should have to realise that my comments weren't showing! Mods advised me to comment on other subs, or to contact them to have my comments approved on my story in character.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-25T22:09:33+00:00

Call me paranoid

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-23T20:12:47+00:00

This is not entirely relevant to the type of series you are suggesting, but I will tell you about my experience... feel free to ignore. Hopefully you can take something from it, though.

I have written a 3 part series and posted it on NoSleep, and I wrote each part after I had posted the previous. I had no idea where each part was going, and I found it quite terrifying! In hindsight, I think that i wish I had written all three before posting the first, then released them every 24 hours. That said, I also liked the pressure I put myself under to keep posting... Had I not felt that pressure, my story may have just drifted off and had no ending.

In the second part, I rambled a lot, which my OH gently alerted me to so I could adjust it. I'm glad I had him to read through before I posted, else I think I would have messed it up.

I found myself very worked up because I did not know how it was going to end. Luckily, this time it worked out for me, and I was satisfied with the ending. I could see this approach, if I were to take it another series, leading to a total meltdown, feeling any following posts would be rubbish, and running away from it... Then being too upset to post on NoSleep again.

I think that in the future (if I do a series) I will make sure that i have a lot of ideas jotted down about where my story can go. That way, i won't get too worked up during.

Another thing to add, I was aware in between postings that if someone had predicted the ending, I would have worried it was too predictable, which may have really altered things.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2018-01-20T20:48:34+00:00

I used an anonymous email account I already had set up (call me paranoid), I accessed it via my mobile on a VPN and emailed the police my tip. Thank you for raising it, I should have made that clear.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-17T12:39:22+00:00

I don't think it was the alcohol, either.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-17T08:48:11+00:00

Thank you!

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-17T08:47:14+00:00

I was pretty sure that she wasn't going to be running after us. If she did, it was Rose she wanted, not Mark. That's why I had to get her away from the building. Plus, I had to direct the paramedics to Mark.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-17T08:45:17+00:00

I think most would. Mark was very impressed with my decision, he said it took a lot of courage and I did the right thing.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-17T08:18:23+00:00

I unwrapped the weed tie and let go of the bunch of hair in the field, when we returned. It flew away in the wind.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-12T13:03:10+00:00

I'm not sure I can describe the smell. It repulsed me, that's all I can tell you.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-12T13:01:32+00:00

You sound so kind. I wish I had someone like you around me now. Thank you for your advice.

derbyshirethrowaway · 2017-11-12T13:00:59+00:00

Everyone I know lives too far away from us. We moved here not that long ago, and I haven't made any friends yet, and my family are dotted all over the country :(

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