Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24431514-20140117023328/@comment-24077689-20140328171154

Mikemacdee wrote: I used to just make fun of it for often being badly written, with a handful of exceptions. Now...I do exactly that, but I'm also an author.

I tried for years to get published professionally, but nobody wanted my horror fiction. So one day Creepypastadotcom had an open submission period, and I said "hell with it" and dumped most of my workload onto the webmaster. He published all of them, and almost all of them were very well-received over there. Meanwhile I'd discovered that my years-earlier attempt to submit Whispers as a creepypasta over at Creepypasta Index actually got accepted, even though nobody notified me: it'd not only already gone viral on a few other creepypasta blogs, but MrCreepyPasta was nice enough to dramatize it.

So now I'm...basically into it I guess.

Reading Slimebeast's work helped hook me, too. Yo, the modern publishing scene is fucking tough. Like, it's tougher than it used to be.