Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26135722-20150222155352/@comment-25148755-20150223001510

Not necessarily. One of the best ways to get better at writing is to write. However, reading other writers can give you ideas and allow you to start to get a feel for what "good" writing sounds like in your head. If you want to write short horror stories, I'd suggest checking out the masters: Edgar Allen Poe, HP Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Clive Barker to start (there's obviously many others but those four are some of the most prolific and mainstream)