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Hey, it's been like, really long, since I said I would get back and I just now saw where I said that and let it not be known that I am not a person of my word. Even if it comes way later then it was supposed to.

As to how I felt, it was always a rather freeing but confusing experience but let me go back.

Back when I made this post I was struggling with, like I said, a darker part of my writing that I didn't understand. This confusion came from, I know realize, the fact that as I grew up (writing because even as a child I liked it) dark themes took to running through almost everything I wrote and my parents didn't really know how to react. Being the loving caring parents they are, they thought it was some kind of cry for help, (no mom, just because I'm writing about a serial killer does not mean I was to murder people) and due to these reactions and being sent to therapy for it once I started to see writing dark things as something bad, a sign that you were not okay or dark, and being a very cheerful person who can't even kill a spider, that didn't sit well with me so, I was ignoring it, but it still came out in my writing especially when I sat down and just wrote with no clear goal in mind.

Thus the post.

After making that post I did start exploring more with it, letting it come as it wanted and one day, near Halloween, as a bit of a joke I wrote a short horror snippet.

And I found I loved it.

Horror was my thing. I'd never really read it or considered due to my parents reaction to horror, but once I started I just fell in love. There's poetry and beauty in a truly chilling piece and I find it pours out of me. I simply adore it.

Now I mostly write horror, though I'm only working on one serious horror piece, and most of my "forced gaiety" pieces as you eloquently called them have come to a more or less halt. However, my inspiration and excitement in my horror piece has given my boosters every now and then to write my other pieces, and they too, come out better because of it.

Also, I love your long words, I just wish I could like, also do that.

Anyway, I know this is hella late, but I just wanted to fulfill my promise and assure that I did find my answer and solution to my problem.