Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-28431168-20161127175846/@comment-5101683-20161129051941

ArinieKat wrote:

A creepy-pasta is supposed to be unnerving and therefore often touch sensitive subjects.

Like Sally Williams Creepy-pasta involve rape and murder. Eyeless Jack's involves cannibalism. BEN's involves suicide. Ticci Toby's involves the loss of a loved one and physical abuse along with alcohol abuse.

Bullying is a rather small and basic idea, there are plenty you can use, even other not extremely sensitive topics, but the thing with writing a Creepypasta is you have to be able to work with 'sensitive' and 'dark' subjects. That's what makes it 'creepy'.

You don't necessarily need to. You can just write a story about some ancient mythological beast. I don't think that non-Satanic pagan rituals have been used very often. In addition, there are a bunch of myths that no one cares about any more.

You don't need to make it "sensitive" at all. In fact, I would personally recommend not using "dark" subject matter at this point in your writing, because if it's executed poorly, then the end result feels stupid.

But you don't need to listen to me. I have written just one story with zero comments that will probably get deleted at some point in the near future. But - just a silly request - could you write something about, say, vehicles or music?