User blog:Mystreve/In regard to recent rants about Creepypasta.

I'm afraid I am a bit of a newbie on this site, so maybe I'm typing for the sake of typing to some of you right now.

Short story short though (and some of the best short stories are just that - short) - I just accidentally stumbled onto this wiki (almost a month ago to the day) and saw some well written stories that people from around the world have concocted. (More parentheses to keep the theme of this sentence).

I then decided to start spewing off a few of my stories to see if I would get any feedback. This is a site with some truly talented authors and I feel as if I am good company. However, reading some of the talk-boards I remain confused. ''What is a Creepypasta? What is a short ''story? I know now that a Creepypasta is a well-crafted bit that is intended to shock the reader and leave said reader with an uncomfortable feeling.

Correct me if I am wrong but isn't that a well-written short story? It seems the lines are blurred. I see a lot of people talking about what constitutes a good pasta.

I see a lot of people talking about one of 347568534875634756439 Pokeman or Lost Episode pastas (the kinds I personally abhor, but to each their own). That was what I thought a Creepypasta originally was, but the more I dug, the more supreme and creepily awful short stories I discovered.

I guess what I'm getting at is - ''What is the difference? I'm I making pasta, pizza, salads or short-stories?''