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So, I was asked to write something to help people become better writers of creepypasta, and I am willing to help out a little. let me first tell you a little about myself, I've been writing since I was twelve and had been published on other websites with stricter standards. Currently, I am writing a story for a contest, which would be great if I could place in another contest. I am not the best writer on Wikia, and hopefully many of you will become a better writer than I am.

So, you want to write something that is worthy of being on this site? Let's ask ourselves some questions first, have you ever written anything before? If the answer is no, that is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, there are some wonderful authors who had come out swinging. But, those cases are few and far between, so the first bit of advise I can offer you is to have really thick skin.

If your story is deleted, take it in strides. Sure you will get rejections, every writer does, if you can't take rejection well, maybe writing isn't suited to you. Stephen King had written so many stories and been rejected so many times, the spike he had nailed to the wall was ripped down from the weight of rejection slips. That is a crazy amount of rejections. But he didn't stop, and he learned from his mistakes. That is what you need to do if you want to become a writer, learn from your mistakes.

Writing, as a job or a hobby, isn't like grammar school where everyone gets a medal for trying. If you are good enough, you will shine through. It will take a long time to get there, and once you do make it to being published you still have to learn more. Strive to be the best you can be while you are writing. Write what interests you, not what you think people will want to read. Because in the end people write because they enjoy it, not for money. There really isn't that much to be made writing short stories anyway. If you are good enough you can get into Clearksworld or Nightmare and get paid rather well for your stories. But those are top of the line magazines. And I believe they pay up to ten cents a word.

If you submit a story here you may get it published, if you do kudos. But, if you don't it's not the end of the world, try again. However, if you are just going to cry about not being published, go somewhere else. There is no need to get upset because your story was rejected. There are other places that will be really rude, I've seen one rejection marked with red pen like it was a school report, and you will just have to brush it off. Keep working towards your goal of being published and you will make it farther than you realized.

So that is my tidbit for this week, have thick skin. Work hard and keep in mind that if your story was rejected it doesn't mean that the next one will be. Just keep writing and try to get an idea of what it is that got your story rejected. Here you have the ability to ask, use that as a tool to help you grow. Asking questions is the best way to get better at something.

Cheers,

JohnathanNash (talk) 02:43, March 5, 2016 (UTC)

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