User blog comment:Creeper50/Can a bad idea be done greatly?/@comment-4849011-20161023004452

About a year and a half ago I created a thread asking how often bad pastas were the result of content, how often they were the result of style, and how often they were the result of both. I noted, "On one hand, some subjects don’t make for effective Creepypastas. I’m not saying that it’s impossible to write an effective horror story about a cell phone that suddenly makes animal noises, soggy food, gastrointestinal distress, or glasses (eyeglasses, sunglasses, drinking glasses, etc.) which stay smudged no matter how much you try to clean them; I’m just saying it would take a genius on the level of Edgar Allan Poe or Shirley Jackson to do it." I believe that a bad idea can be done well, but the worse the idea, the greater a job the people involved need to do to make it work.