Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-32555140-20181203011407/@comment-5606398-20181204020742

Oppose.

Some background on the word "creepypasta":

"Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers."

Creepypasta was originally defined as short chillers that could be copy-pasted around the internet, much like their root term "copypasta". While it definitely is not the same now, and creepypasta has grown to encompass online horror stories of any kind, very very very few of these stories tend to be over 3000 words, with those over 10,000 words existing primarily in locations where such lengthy stories are commonplace, such as on Wattpad or Fanfiction.net.

The to-be magnum opus of my writing career, a full-length science-fiction novel titled "Lone", has yet to have reached even 20,000 words and it is about a quarter through the story I have planned. For comparison, Penpal by Reddit user 1000Vultures has about 25,000 words and was adapted into a novel, and The Martian by Andy Weir is a story that spans a single book in about 100,000 words. I can think of very few people who write a Minecraft horror novel solely to be featured on a mid-sized website.

As for originality and grammar, I can agree fully with all the proposed guidelines.