a public speaking topic paper kinda

Just read a bit of it. I'd say your direction and formatting are spot on. I only noticed one error, near the end of the second paragraph ("You Never could.") But then again, the capitalization of "never" in the sentence could be intentional, for emphasis.

Either way, definitely keep writing man. You've got something going there.

I believe it was around 700 pages. I was only 21 or 22 when I wrote it; it was a sprawling, directionless, non-linear garbage heap that incorporated the stories of all of my favorite folk ballads and myths. (which included everything from Tam Lin to Inanna's descent into the underworld) So, it was purely indulgent.
It also frequently spiraled into almost entirely unrelated side-plots involving witch cults and murderous countesses and the like.

And lately I've been writing rough drafts for various interconnected short stories (children's' short stories, mainly) all set within the same universe. They're all a bit ridiculous; one is about an orphan girl named Frogmouth who lives in a ramshackle trash castle in a landfill. Her friends include a tiny imaginary luchadore, a raccoon, and a benevolent garbage man (who moonlights as an opera singer) who looks after her.

There's also one titled "Where Spiders Go" about a ghostly, almost grandfatherly sentient spider who lives within the walls of a 1940s boarding house and protects the sleeping children from various terrors both physical and spectral. (It's closely intertwined with another, similar story titled The Eyes in the Pines which follows a family of otherworldly white deer and runaway changeling children. And that one is very loosely connected to the one about dead Russian princesses-turned-demons who live at the bottom of an icy lake.)

Is it scary

I can't really say. Horror doesn't really scare me, so much as it interests me. And I definitely think your writing is interesting, so take that as you will. :thumb:

Those all sound amazing. :D

It's more or less all stream of consciousness

Atmospheric would be a better way to put it, not scary. Is it nice and unsettling

Yes. And yeah, I think atmospheric is a great way to describe it.

It's my fears put to light

First tried horror here but gave it up https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...LmaTaVq2wQ/pub