Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-10319977-20151014231140/@comment-10319977-20151016132902

LOLSKELETONS wrote:

Meanwhile, your story list has yet to improve a single bit. If it continues like this, I'll have no choice but to close this thread. LOLSKELETONS your solution to everything you dislike it to block/close it. Besides, as I've already pointed out, I have been making alterations to this list (took out several weaker stories and asked for feedback on altering a couple).

JohnathanNash I cannot thank you enough for taking the time to give me great, lengthy advice for writing regular stories. With that said, these aren't regular stories. Almost everything you touched on: caring about the characters, having an idea in mind, etc., they're all things I already understand.

However, micropastas are in a completely different league of their own. Frankly I'm surprised they don't have their own category or wiki yet. The length does matter in a micropasta because after so long it cannot be considered as such. On a personal/side note, one of my biggest past motivators was, and continues to be, that I want to create the single shortest creepypasta on this wiki. That's why I'm deadset on getting at least one good micropasta to stay on the site, and was so distrought over my one sentence long story getting deleted. It set me back on my dream as well as discouraged me since, as you've all proven here, any story can be deleted at any moment, even if it seems highly praised. Simply put: one of the biggest things to make me lose motivation is that any story, whether viewed as great or not, can be taken down and cast aside as trash.