Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-27280438-20160114125758/@comment-4715955-20160125113744

Jay ten wrote: I realize you think you're the only one here that knows anything, and you think that if you write your comments with a certain tone that you'll convince people you know what you're talking about or make it so people are scared to disagree with you

Jay ten wrote: Wouldn't happen to be a situation where you see yourself as a big fish in a little pond scenario, would it?

Jay ten wrote: Mike...loves talking down to people.

I'm not the king of the hill around here, and I don't pretend to be. All I do is call things like I see them, and I always suggest solutions whether or not people like my tone, which always seems to be more important than anything I'm actually saying. You, by contrast, are getting personal, calling me a calculating, egotistical bully who gets off on putting people down, all because I tell people what I think and I'm not always sweet about it. And all because of a generalization that yes, I probably could've been more specific about.

Sure, there are good stories on here. Even I have a huge collection of favorites, and I leave 'em right there on my profile for everyone to see. Creepypasta in general is what I speak of: badly written fiction that deserves the trashy reputation it gets, often by writers who are crazy, immature, and vengeful. The genre is renowned for all of this. If I say "don't use creepypasta as an example of how to write", it's because of all the bad ones that comprise the majority, because even with the noteworthy exceptions of "good" pastas, it still stands that these authors should be reading books -- not internet fiction -- if they want to learn how to write. The Jeff the Killers outnumber the Slimebeasts a billionfold, and they're the ones inspiring the authors most of the time.