Work in Progress

I am here as a writer, but mostly to read the work of others because I love to read and I love to edit. It started by going to another website. I looked for short scary stories and without really reading who wrote it, printed it out to type it as I read it. I came up with it one day and it helps a lot. Its not fraud unless I'm trying to claim it's mine. I just like the warm up of typing and by reading something totally new and have no inkling as to what is to come of it, that's what kick-starts my day to the discipline of my own writing, stories, reviews, journaling. Writers thrive on people like vampires. We need your life, your stories.
The first story that I tested this method on was exhilarating. It was a terrible story. The idea was bad, it was a stuttering mess of words that didn't create a sense of atmosphere or character development. In a short story, that's a tricky one, but this was basically "my friends at school like my stories, and I wrote this for my 8th grade teacher, she seemed to like it" kind of situation. One would hope. But it didn't just get me roaring to life to write, but also to edit this story myself and I even had ideas to make it work and scared me even thinking about it.
Writing is objective and subjective. When it comes to grammar, format, structure, basic English guidelines(that most writers break habitually) down to simple punctuation, you're an excellent technical writer. The "art" is the passion, ideas, drive, willingness to let go, to take risks and accept people might not like your work at all, and then somewhere in Asia you're a God. I don't like Shakespeare, and I am nuts to even admit it, because he changed the art of literature. I didn't need footnotes to know its black comedy and he pretty much put it on the market. But I just don't think he's amazing.
I have a lot to learn myself and we learn best from our community, so I'm your editor and ghostwriter if you want, either way I'll read your story. I was getting a little sluggish halfway through Stephen King's "Desperation". He's highly successful, but there are books I can't get through. Some just lag. Some are dead in the water.