User blog comment:LyraAlluse/I've Been Published/@comment-28938497-20150513174005/@comment-28938497-20150513180559

I was never one of those people. I'm far more comfortable with my own original characters (especially after all the roleplaying). That's why I started writing fanfiction, at the time it was more challenging, and I wanted to push myself.

That's also why I turned to horror. I was getting bored of ordinary short stories, and to make someone feel genuinely scared from reading a bunch of words was too exciting a challenge not to attempt.

The first pastas I wrote (don't look for them. They're not on here. I think the Performer is my earliest pasta on this site), cliched as they were, sure creeped out my family. That was a good start.