Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-31498791-20181130120708/@comment-36877863-20181130171733

I have never once read a good story - creepypasta or otherwise - in the form of a diary. Just make it first-person!

The reason diaries make bad stories is this: when someone writes a diary, they are writing to themselves. A diary entry makes no effort to set the scene, because the only person who will read it already knows what's going on. For creepypastas specifically, the problem is made far worse by the tendency of creepypasta characters to die. It's difficult to write a diary when you're dead, and it's ridiculous to think that someone would write in real-time a description of themselves dying. For almost anything a story requires to be good- plot, setting, characterization- there's a very good reason that a diary shouldn't have it.