Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27280438-20160114125758/@comment-4715955-20160124105632

Unholy Lord wrote: Wait, you are suggesting they make a good pasta by not reading pastas?

... Isn't that the opposite of what they should do...? No. Creepypasta is still fiction. The difference between creepypasta authors and professional authors is that the former are hobbyists at best in most cases, and at worst kids trying their hand at writing without having ever read anything but the works of other kids and amateurs. If you wanted to learn how to fix your car, who would you ask for advice: a seasoned auto shop worker, or the kid two houses down the street who races in soap box derbies?

You don't learn how to write by reading and emulating the works of people who also don't know how to write. All fiction has to follow the same rules: plots that make sense, characters that are consistent and believable, a logical sequence of events, building a sense of tension or emotion. You're not going to learn how to do that by reading Jeff the Fucking Killer.