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[CrazyArtist]

A Word on Slenderblogs

[Not Logging In]

I agree, yet at the same time acknowledge that the Slender Man is the pull that attracts the reader's attention. If it were just some blog, it would probably be ignored until the Slender Man makes his appearance. A writer wants an audience.

Also, I think calling it the Slender Man as opposed to Slender Man is creepier. The former has an alien, and disturbing feel to it, as if that's as far as we could possibly describe it. The latter sounds like a comic character.

[ifsogirl]

I agree that there is a lot of 'too soon' with the blogs in regards to the Slender Man showing up. However, I think that in some cases, the involvement of the Slender Man from the get-go is more a product of the story itself; it is very possible to begin something scary in the middle of the stalking, haunting, or hunting. Take the ARG favorite, House of Leaves, for example. The story, for all intents and purposes, begins with the main character doing a lot of mumbling about the terrible things going on around him, without a lot of foreplay.

A lot of horror stories start in the middle. Some don't even bother to explain the origin of their horror.

However, this isn't always the beginning of a good story.

[Cougar Draven]

To be honest, I understand this. I've got a story for something like this planned out in my head, and it's meant for filming. If I can't film it? I won't do it.

So yeah, I understand that.

[SolDL]

I think we're at a stage in the genre where people need to start widening the horizons of it. A lot of the 'scare factor' some blogs try to pull off is just derivative, which softens the impact, particularly for those who begin with reading the big three blogs (Seeking Truth, Dreams in Darkness, Just Another Fool) and work their way down. I don't feel there is anything wrong with starting in the middle of the story, or at the beginning. We just need for something that expands the Mythos and continues to shock us, rather than blogs that play within the confines of the structured genre.

[qaqa]

I think TT and EMH have begun stretching the boundaries a bit - EMH in particular is its own animal. I'm not that up on most of the blogs. I do think some of the blog attempts at experimentation recently have come out lame. I don't even want to know what Core Theory is.

I do think endings also have to be challenged. While I expect the big 3 to all end the same basic way, the same old nihilistic "everyone dies" ending is going to get tiresome eventually. If anything, the road to the dark ending can at least be subverted or altered in some way.

If I ever had a viable Slender-idea I wouldn't blog or vlog it. I'm no good at all that. I'd commit it to a script or treatment, and then probably shut it away forever, because I'd feel horribly guilty if I ever got lucky enough to pitch it, as though I were profiting off a bunch of other people. But inevitably someone, somewhere is going to snatch up this nebulous property and make a major killing off it. It won't be long.

[CrazyArtist]