41 upvotes, 2 direct replies (showing 2)
View submission: Karma for text-posts (AKA self-posts)
You already see a lot of this in /r/nosleep as it is. That sub should be more worried about the "I was going to finish this story in a convincing manner, but I am doing a book, so buy that to finish the story" posts.
Also, it seems (for better and worse) that a lot of multipart text posts in nosleep are because the author uses a lot of words.
Comment by [deleted] at 19/07/2016 at 19:55 UTC
8 upvotes, 1 direct replies
And extra details about the character's life that add absolutely nothing to the story.
You're telling me about a ghost you saw. I don't need to know what you do for a living, or where you used to live or why you moved into the house.
Comment by cr1sis77 at 20/07/2016 at 01:05 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
I used to spend a lot of time in nosleep before it was a default. Those stories that are split into multiple parts are almost never done so because of character limit. The character limit is huge. They're always split either to milk it, or to buy time to write the next piece. Very occaisonally it's also to build suspense and make it more realistic if it's in a "I'm writing this as it happens." format.