User blog comment:RisingFusion/Getting tired of this/@comment-26849473-20150903231459/@comment-25941663-20150904191523

Sure, it's great to have both creepiness/atmosphere and character development. But creepiness (in creepypastas) can make a story stand out without needing character development.

Let's say you have a story with the greatest character development in the world, but nothing that happens is remotely creepy. I'm pretty sure the story would be terrible as creepypasta.

So, what I'm saying is, in creepypastas it is better to not focus everything on character development.