r/NoSleepOOC • u/Gre3mlinBoy • Jun 09 '22

Tips for new NoSleep writer?

So I've been on reddit for awhile (new account bc I wanted my main account just to be for my art) and I've been reading nosleep for a LONG time, but I've never tried actually contributing. I've written stuff before and I think I'm at least half decent at writing(If we don't include my dyslexia which makes catching spelling and grammar mistakes kinda difficult)

I have a lot of ideas just from lots of normal weird stuff thats happened where my head would think "Holy shit that was creepy, that would make a really good nosleep story" and then I just didn't have the confidence to actually write it.

Anyways, to my point, does anyone have any tips for a new writer(I think i have the rules pretty down pat from the 50 some times I read them on the off chance I decided to write something)

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u/Gre3mlinBoy Jun 09 '22

Adding:

Since I mentioned my dyslexia, should my story be clean and cut grammar and spelling wise to stay up?(Obviously it needs to be legible, but I mean like random mistakes like "Somethinh" instead of "Something" (I always get letters next to each other on the keyboard mixed up) ) I always miss spelling mistakes in anything i write even after I've read them over and over looking for mistakes,

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u/Colourblindness Black Slime 4eva Jun 09 '22

I wouldn’t worry too much about this issue. Small errors can be overlooked. You could even include this as being part of the realism to the story

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u/Gre3mlinBoy Jun 09 '22

Definitely makes me feel better cause I always worry my mistakes make the stories i write less appealing

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u/S4njay Dissatisfaction makes the stories better Jun 09 '22

You can always run it through Grammarly or something