Maybe it's because I don't know how to navigate the site well, but I haven't found any rules on two sentence horror stories and would like to know if they're allowed or not.
Maybe it's because I don't know how to navigate the site well, but I haven't found any rules on two sentence horror stories and would like to know if they're allowed or not.
They are allowed, although most get deleted because they don't meet the Quality Standards. You are free to post one, but they might get deleted (like every story).
Do you mean deleted like every one of my stories, because that's true but I don't know maybe I do just suck at writing, or has everyone gotten their stories deleted lately?
DEFSeattle wrote: Do you mean deleted like every one of my stories, because that's true but I don't know maybe I do just suck at writing, or has everyone gotten their stories deleted lately?
Your most recent story was deleted because it fell below our quality standards. This wiki has increased its standards due to the fact that we get a lot more stories submitted than we did a few years ago (around ten and thirty on a daily basis). Rather than let the wiki be flooded with hastily written/poorly written stories as we have in the past, we have taken to deleting the ones that aren't up to snuff as per community input. Onto the issues present in your most recent story:
Run on sentences: “What’s important is that back then the fog was much thicker; it’s hard for me to tell if there really was a thinning as I walked or if I’ve grown used to it; I’ve grown a power of some kind to see past the fog, or maybe there was simply nothing for miles and no matter the thickness I’d never see a difference.”, “The air was the odd kind that’s wet but because of how cold it is and the wind with it, though weaker than a toothpick, seemed to dry and prick at your skin like one, but of course it felt like many more than one toothpick was sticking you. While I could only see about five or ten paces in front of me,(also, should be a period)”.
Run on sentence continued.: “I can’t see myself having a life other than this one, I live and breathe the vision of that child, and what she said to me, and what those figures looked like, what they would have done had I not helped her; what actually happened to her, because I was too late.” A majority of these sentences would be much better broken down into two or more sentences. Try reading them aloud for clarification. They come off as very cumbersome and needlessly dense.
Redundancy issues: avoid re-using phrases/words multiple times in the same sentence. “frail creature, a creature that looked”, “a reason to walk, though it is so cold and damp, the reason”, “moved arguably slower than she had been moving”, etc. Avoid repeating multiple words multiple times as it really breaks the flow of a story.
Wording issues: “Well, however many days, weeks, months, years, minutes, seconds, ago it was” Typically you go in order from shortest to longest rather than randomly in these scenarios.
Punctuation issues: ““Please, help me,(.)” Her voice was oddly calm””, “…paces in front of me,(should be a period)” Apostrophes incorrectly used. Grammar: it’s=it is, its=possession. “It’s walk”, “it’s knees.”, etc. Capitalization issues: ““They’re after me.” she (She) pointed behind her.” Those are two separate lines like this sentence: “ “I’ll always remember you.” She sat up…”
Story issues: there really needs to be more description of the pursuing entities to give this story a creepy feel. Without it, it just comes off as vague. This doesn’t build up a good mystery for who they are or why they’re walking/what those creatures are, it just takes out points that would have made the story more interesting/involving. This story needs quite a bit of re-working as it currently has a lot of issues.
DEFSeattle wrote: Do you mean deleted like every one of my stories, because that's true but I don't know maybe I do just suck at writing, or has everyone gotten their stories deleted lately?
I didn't mean you suck at writing. I meant that (as with every story submitted) if your two-sentence story isn't good, it will get deleted. If it is good, it will stay.
It's impossible to do two word story anyways. There's no development or anything. However, it's possible to make a two image story...
Bliming Redshire wrote: It's impossible to do two word story anyways. There's no development or anything. However, it's possible to make a two image story...
A two word story is impossible, but a two sentence one is possible. It's got its own title, flash fiction. That being said, it isn't in any way easy to do.
I just want to kind of confess something to you all and reply to EmpyrealInvective because I don't know how to reply to stuff (I THINK it's quoting it but I don't know and I don't want to look like any more of an idiot than I already do.)
Anyway, I've been having a lot of issues with my personal life, I lost someone close to me because of something stupid I did/said and it's been killing me. Now I go to school, do stuff there, go home right afterwards, and sleep until dinner where I eat then go back to sleep. I didn't think about it until my dad brought it up because my parents actually do care about me, he said that I was showing other signs of being depressed.
I am medicated for depression, and, yes, my sleeping patterns have made it difficult to say the least to take my daily meds, which is probably contributing to my deeper depression.
Before that I was thinking about killing myself and other things of the sort, luckily I've found a special meaning to life that will keep me from ever offing myself, but nonetheless, I still just want to go through life without doing anything until I reach the point in my life where I can do what I feel I was "destined" to do, if that makes any sense without sounding campy/cheesy/stupid. Along with that, it takes me a long time to write because I'm very much a perfectionist and can take hours to just write one paragraph, which is also why I'm not doing well in school which is also a reason for my depression. So, with that story especially, I just decided to write without being so harsh on myself, thinking that "it's the Creepypasta wikia, if something about it is wrong then someone will just come in and edit it and tell me what I did wrong and help me with it and blah, blah, blah," which is clearly not the case it seems. That's what I liked most about the creepypasta wikia, one, it's not as much of a pain in the ass to upload to like Deviant Art, and people can leave comments and suggestions, unlike Tumblr, which is what really got me into this place.
You can see from my "Innocent Souls" story that I'm not against changing anything in my story, hell, I completely deleted and made a new paragraph because someone said that a part of it was bad/didn't make any sense (I don't want to say that they said it was bad because I feel like that'll make the person look mean or dickish, which they really weren't, take a look at their comment if you want an idea of what I mean) but it makes me frustrated when my story gets deleted before anyone else can try to critique it and help me out with getting better, because if I wanted what I'm getting, I'd just go to my English teacher and have him read over some of my stuff (though he is busy and probably wouldn't have time to do that) I'm also not past having editors either, it's just that no one will really take it up (and I prefer someone that I feel won't just look at the bad/ has the same taste that I do so that it's still my story and not theirs, because plenty of people probably hate everything that I write, whether it be seen as good or bad by others, so I wouldn't necessarily want to trust them and I hope you understand why.) If you'd like to be a personal editor I'd be all up for it (If you're too busy for that I am completely understanding to that, it just never hurts to ask, you know?) I did have one for a while but he kind of just dropped me I guess.
So, long story short, Sorry about the twelve page essay I've written here, I just feel like you guys should know about why my stories have been few, far between, and kind of shitty lately, and by all means it's no excuse, I should try to look over them better (but I do have an issue with reading that may or may not be dyslexia, I'm not sure, my testings have come out inconclusive and for personal reasons I can't get re-tested, so even if I do proofread them it's very likely that it won't matter because I'll miss a lot of stuff anyway.) Basically I've had no stride (I hope that use of it doesn't sound bad, I've heard it used this way before but I could be wrong) to do anything and when I do it comes out like.... that mess.... I hope you guys can understand, I didn't even have enough energy to read the critique all the way through, so I wanted to communicate with you that it's not that I'm blaming anyone else for my bad writing or getting pissy at anyone for my mess ups, but my personal life has been playing a really big part in my online life as well. Again, if anyone else is interested in editing my stuff before I upload it, I'm happy with taking in more than one for the job, as long as you don't mind not being paid in money, I'll happily give you props somehow or allowing you to use it as an example of your editing ability as long as instead of changing the story straight up and just emailing it back to me, highlight the part of the story you want changed and how to change it, I'll change it if I find that multiple sources agree with you on it. Thank you for getting this far, and please, don't try to correct my grammar in this and diverge the point from what I want it to be, I tried the best I could to get my point across without a video because that's something else I haven't had any will to do lately.
Thanks for reading and, I hope understanding my position, you're all great people and I've just been bitter lately and it's not your fault, and I want you to know that.
There was a figure coming from the closet. It was snoop dog
It was snoop dog
Made me fucking shit myself, man. Nice job.
DEFSeattle wrote:
It was snoop dog
Made me fucking shit myself, man. Nice job.
To much skar