User blog comment:Dorkpool/What Makes A Creepypasta A Crappypasta/@comment-25220801-20150209095404

Sometimes you can do all the basics right: spelling, grammar, punctuation, etc., and still your story will be viewed as a crappypasta. I've had a few accepted onto creepypasta.com, but also had one rejected and placed on crappypasta.com (which I found pretty cool in all truth ;) ).

Sometimes you just don't know how other people will take your stories, or whether you'll be able to transfer an idea that seems fantastic in your head onto the page and do it justice.

That's where I think the majority of crappypasta's come from - a translation issue between the imagination and language; how many truly terrifying ideas have been lost to the world because the writer couldn't find the words?

Then again...maybe that's a fortunate thing. Who would want a world where we could so easily draw each other into our nightmares? ;)