Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-34541920-20180204184046/@comment-25458443-20180204222539

To be honest, and if I'm just plainly incorrect, I apologize, but this seems to me to be the kind of story where you said, "Yup, I'm going to write a spooky tale" and then proceeded to write out some vaguely scary things. In my experience, (just mine), horror writing is best done when you're already scared of a certain kind of idea and then you kinda condense that fear into word form.

Like I'm not afraid of clowns so I probably wouldn't write a killer clown story. Most of my pasta that are actually supposed to scare the reader, (since a lot of them are just kinda irony stories tbh), are about things like apathy or even more specifically, eyes peering at you through darkness.

You gotta get into a scary mood, you know? Have the lights off, think of some unsettling things, conjure up the demons that scare you and then through them onto the page. THAT'S horror, but..."Mr Funnymuffins?"

If Mr. Funnymuffins was the inner demon that most scared you, then...I don't really know what to say.