Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-43331652-20190730155526/@comment-35711173-20190731182719

Sir fear,

When you check your errors and correct them to the best of your ability, we are far more likely to think that you really care about your writing and have done the best you can with it.

The closer the story is to my feelings and emotions, the greater the fear is. "Character sheet" stories aren't creepypastas. I don't care if you define something that you think can defeat the entire Marvel Comic Universe. I don't play video games, so they don't scare me. Ritual pastas bore me. They almost always are a recipe, without bringing in any emotion. Gore will bore me. Any story that uses scientific or historical details should get those details correct.

That tells you what I don't like. What I do like is for you to get in and suck me in two ways:


 * Emotion
 * Creepiness

I need to be brought into the emotions of the character, so I know them and care about them. Then you need to ratchet up the creepiness until that creepiness pressure finally explodes in some powerful horror.

Good luck!