Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26488452-20150612025810/@comment-26487831-20150612085338

If its based on personal experience, there's probably an enormous wellspring of creative and emotional potential there waiting to be released. The key is to harness it in a genuine manner that emphasizes what made the actual events emotionally affecting in the first place, and to channel that in a way that heightens it to the point of making great and enjoyable literature.

Now, as Whitix has mentioned, the idea isn't exactly Creepypasta material. However, if written well enough, I think you could definitely transform it into something that deserves a well earned place on this wiki. Horror isn't just monsters that live in the computer, haunted houses, and supernatural creatures that watch you as you sleep - horror in its essence is a prying open of the mysterious gashes in our reality, in our society. Honestly, as much as the scientific community and popular culture would like us to believe, much of our world is still a mystery, and rife with an infinity of possibilities. The scientific method is just a candle in a huge cavern of darkness, and science tests only what we investigate, which is contingent to the worldview of the researchers, and the ideologies of universities and government institutions that make the research possible. And don't forget the hoards of scientific studies that are carried out, filed away, and forgotten by the academic community at large. Science is still a very human process, and its supposedly comforting explanatory power is limited by the threshold of the human mind.

This extends into the realm of human psychology. Why do human beings do what they do? Why can't really fucked up situations be allowed to arise? Lacanian psychoanalysis can't fully explain this, neuroscience can't fully explain this, behavioralist psychology can't fully explain this, Heideggarian metaphysics can't explain this, certainly no religious faith can explain this - we can try, but it's like beating a brick wall with our fists. We're always JUST on the verge of explaining things, but apart from mathematics and logic, we can never fully explain the objective world. There's always going to be a chasm of subjectivity, of unknown possibility.

So take this reality and milk it for all it's worth in your story. Why did this happen? Why was this person like this? Is this moral? Is there such thing as morality? Junk any explanatory seeds in your mind when writing this story. Thrive in the unknown. Don't give us answers, give us questions. Then you will have an effective Creepypasta.

That's my advice for you. Take your idea, and go for it. A novel might be a bit ambitious at first. I'd recommend writing a few short stories first (and try submitting them here!), and work your way up to the confidence necessary to write a full length novel.

Good luck!