Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10319977-20151014231140/@comment-26007602-20151016175902

ColorlessAngelz wrote:

However, micropastas are in a completely different league of their own. Frankly I'm surprised they don't have their own category or wiki yet. The length does matter in a micropasta because after so long it cannot be considered as such. On a personal/side note, one of my biggest past motivators was, and continues to be, that I want to create the single shortest creepypasta on this wiki. That's why I'm deadset on getting at least one good micropasta to stay on the site, and was so distrought over my one sentence long story getting deleted. It set me back on my dream as well as discouraged me since, as you've all proven here, any story can be deleted at any moment, even if it seems highly praised. Simply put: one of the biggest things to make me lose motivation is that any story, whether viewed as great or not, can be taken down and cast aside as trash if enough time passes. Can't help but weigh in (I'm a sucker for this kind of thing).

Here's what I don't understand: you seemed perfectly content with scrapping your larger story with actual potential and much more effort out into it, but you're dead set on the idea that these must make it through. You had a pretty good start with "The Perfect Dream", why focus so much time on these? There is literally only so much you can change in such short stories that they're almost impossible to improve without complete rewrites, something you appear against.

"I Slit My Own Throat Once" is a great concept for a normal sized story, but will never work as a stand alone sentence. If your personal dream is to write the shortest story on this wiki, then I dare say you need to aim a little higher. There's not a whole lot of "prestige" that comes with the title of "shortest story writer", because you just wrote a sentence. Even if it is creepy, it will not compare with any of the other works on this wiki because it is just a sentence. You're limiting yourself unnecessarily and you refuse to see that it is hurting your writing.