User blog comment:GotPunked/Gathering Information and Opinions on Pasta/@comment-25624120-20141126154545

A good pasta needs palpable tension and characters that you actually care about. It needs to try and drag the reader into the story because in order to create horror it needs an emotional investment. Pastas are generally bad when their pacing and word choices are off. I've seen several stories which start of really promising but then the author suddenly rushes through the final events which tends to, in my opinion, de-value the build up. Of course this only applies to certain stories where characters are in immediate danger.