User blog:HardyGal/Writing advice, please

First blog post! Good on me! Anyhoo, could someone give me advice on how to write a story from the first person perspective. I have this problem where I tend to go into things with as much detail as I think is necessary, and it comes off as unnecessary. I'm not sure how else to explain it. That, and I'm also having trouble thinking up of a good beginning and build up. Is a pasta good if the uncanny, something-ain't-right feeling comes in after only five or four paragraphs?

I give thanks to whoever might take their time to give me advice. I'm new here, and many of my 'creepy' stories are mainly story oriented, rather than freaky-creepy oriented.