Board Thread:Administration/@comment-4832646-20140317230449/@comment-4832646-20140321190633

Ryonne wrote:

Noothgrush wrote:

Again, we have strict quality standards akin to those of a publisher.

Again, we're the premier to place on the web to post, get feedback, and participate in the actual creation of creepypastas.

Boo hoo, your story got deleted. Probably for good reason. Instead of bitching, maybe try to improve. Posts like yours are a huge pet peeve of mine, you're obviously not trying. You obviously don't want to improve. You're not posting on here because we're challenging you to get better when we say your story isn't up to snuff? Haha ok then. There's a lot of woe is me baaaawww in your post, do you know how many people get their stories deleted here? A lot. Do you know how many of those people take that as a challenge to improve? A lot. Do you know how many typically come back with better stories? A lot.

You're just giving up. There's nothing to be respected in that. Hey, don't be so hard on him. We all get upset when our pastas are criticized. Who among us doesn't pour our all into our writing?

I think we need to approach this situation with a bit more humility. I mean, we're just a creepypasta website. We're a popular and frequently-trafficked creepypasta website, but that doesn't make us "akin to a publishing company." I mean, I'm not saying we should lift our quality standards, but the reason we set up the writer's workshop was so that we didn't have to say, "Tough. You obviously suck. Write better." when someone gets their pasta deleted. We're not being constructive by insulting prospective writers. "Who among us doesn't pour our all into our writing?"

You would be surprised how many pastas crop up that are so unwittingly bad, it's obvious the writer didn't take the time to try. Alot of people sit there and think if they write a story in two hours, it's good. Yet, the best writers take days, weeks, months, even years to make sure their stories are up to snuff before they put them in public eye.

The issue is, people don't pour their all into writing - they think it's this easy peasy 1-2-3sy thing that they are already good at. They don't think they have to try. They jot something down and go with it. Then they shoot back when it gets deleted with either how little we know what quality work actually is or how it was their first so it should get slack.

My pet peeves are the fact that negative criticism is a thing in this world, yet it seems no one knows how to take it. They cling on to that bubble of "This is good! Keep it up!" that someone said and immediately get offended when their stories don't pass somewhere else because "Your story had several plotholes, was very vague and bland with no description, and was a journal that didn't read like a journal." or some other example. And then I come to find out that they wrote it in an hour.

It took Leonardo Da Vinci 5 years to paint the Mona Lisa, and fun fact: It's actually still not finished. While he didn't write for thirteen years straight, it took thirteen years from start to finish for Stephen King to write "The Stand". It's going to take longer than a few hours to write a good story here. Good work takes trying, and trying takes time.