 Hey there foundation staff I get this question about how do you write scp's a lot in the comments? And so I'm starting a series scp writing tips from scp writers my credentials for giving you guys advice first I am the shirm on the scp wiki. I've written five scp articles or tales I also enlist aid from the scp authors who frequent the site 42 discord server So you'll be getting advice from me as well as authors who are probably more accomplished than I am So make sure you're following us to get as many tips as we put out scp writing tips from scp writers objects and narrative on the current scp wiki in 2020 It is not enough to just have an idea for a spooky monster or a spooky object You also have to be telling some kind of story as an example We have scp 3041 the red knife the knife is anti-mimetic And when you kill someone with it they disappear from the collective memory of humanity So their body still exists and is rotting and everyone can smell it But they can't see or interact with it and no one knows it's there That's pretty creepy on its own But the story is a story of the scp foundation Testing this thing again and again because they it seems like nothing's happening And they waste endless resources and human personnel both researchers and d-class Trying to figure out what this thing does before the o5 council cuts off their research object narrative scp writing tips from scp writers current standards I'm not here to get into a debate about whether series one is better than series six or why series four is the objectively best series You can fight me what's important here is that you are writing for the current iteration of the wiki With the current user base and if you want your article to survive You can make the best art you can make but if you make it for an audience that doesn't want it It's not gonna matter So make sure that you read a whole lot of series six maybe get into series five series for the best series Read them all and see what you can do to craft your story in the vein that the current voting populace Will upvote scp writing tips from scp writers part one getting critique So you have a finished scp article You've done all your spell checks and the story checks out now You need some people to look at it every article that gets up on the wiki has an average of three to five people Who read it and said okay? I give this to go ahead number one I would check out the scp drafts forum remember that the critique team gets a lot of articles So they may only check you out once and it may take them a little bit if you want more help quicker I would check out discord servers like the site 42 discord server the scp Declassified server or both good ones where scp authors hang out and you can make friends with them You can give them critique as well And they will trade back with you and the community will flourish and you will get the critique you need See you later scp writing tips from scp writers part two choosing your critiquers So you've got an scp article set you have a couple of people who may or may not critique your article Who do you want to critique it? Well people with good spelling and grammars a good help people who have written scp articles is even better Also consider the flavor of your story versus the critique or you're giving it to if someone hates meta articles bar Ra, they're probably not gonna give you the best advice on your meta article So think about who you're getting critique from make sure you get various viewpoints again The average is three to five sets of go-ahead before it goes on the wiki and you will have an easier time Improving your article Okay, let's just ignore the fact that there's two of me scp writing tips from scp writers So you'll want to be a badass New scp writers give us drafts all the time that have their god of hyper death Who's so badass, but he's a very eloquent speaker who wants to work with the foundation and It's kind of gotten to the point where we scp authors kind of joke about it But that I mean it's not like there's not those on the wiki in the first place We already have oh seven six three four three six eight two the thing is as time has gone on We don't need any more of those we need new ideas like two six six two the story isn't about how bad Ass he is it's about how annoying being a badass like a Cthulhu is because you have all these cultists Interrupting your days with their blood orgies who needs that long story short Don't just make a badass give us an interesting story about the badass scp writing tips from scp writers listening to critique I could make a million different videos about listening to critique in its various forms But today I just want the general sentiment of you ask the person to critique your article Now you have to listen to what they said Sometimes the response to critique is oh no my article is perfect, and I just wanted you to say it's okay, so I can post it No Hopefully this critique or you're talking to is someone you respect the opinion of otherwise you wouldn't ask them And yes, you can go get a second opinion if maybe you think they're wrong But if that person agrees to it looks like your article needs some work, and that's fine Articles go through numerous drafts You got to keep reworking it until all the pieces fit together and all the people understand and enjoy the article So that it survives on the wiki Good luck People have anxiety about writing their first scp because they're worried about it coming out badly So I don't know who needs to hear this, but there is no such thing as a natural talent Only people who started something in such a young age that they got the hours of practice in to make it seem natural I used to be the worst dancer in my show choir Terrible two years of training later, and I am a professional ballroom dance instructor been teaching for 13 years But blah blah blah blah blah blah I learned in theater college regarding auditions Anything you want to be good at you can't be afraid to look silly because you need to fall in love with failure You will not be good at something until you failed at it hundreds of times Learning to dance writing an scp any skill as our Lord and Savior Shia LaBeouf says Just do it SCP writing tips from scp writers. I don't understand x You're getting critique and your critiquer says I don't understand x 75% of the time the new author is gonna respond Oh, well, this is a b c and d and their critiquer 90% of the time is going to reply Why isn't a b c and d inside the story? It's easy when you're writing your story from your perspective in your mind to know all the facts But not get them all down so that the audience can get them and even though on the wiki We're allowed to use other articles to spruce up our stories You still need to make sure that every detail your reader needs to know is inside the story that you wrote Otherwise, they're not gonna understand it and they're probably not gonna upvote First of all, oh, I'm flattered you want to so thanks Second in the scp cannon there is no cannon So technical answer you could do whatever you want and you can write them however you want because that's how it is You could write whatever you want for dr. Sherman now third In my skits dr. Sherman's a little bit of everything because he's whatever OC I need to make the skit funny Sometimes he's a straight man. Sometimes he's the weird guy And so I have a funny head cannon that maybe I'll write into an scp one day if it's not too indulgent But there is a site 42 where everyone in that site is dr. Sherman So there's Sherman agents there's Sherman d-class there's Sherman researchers because if a non Sherman shows up on the site And makes human contact with one of the Shermans They turn into a Sherman and so when I write it the story is about how awkward it is that everyone's the same guy With the same knowledge and stuff like that Happy writing last time you asked me about scp containment classes. I told you about the big three safe Euclid Ketter the main most common versions now today We're talking about a little bit more of a rare one Thaumiole Thaumiole is an scp class where the scp contains other scp's if a safe scp Stays in its box a euclid may or may not get out and a Ketter will definitely get out Thaumiole's are itself the box. They help contain other scp's Beneficial, huh? What is the a poly on object class when it was originally introduced in scp 2 3 1 7 written by dr Clef this was meant to be a surprise and a wake-up call to the reader What is a poly on why is something above Ketter? Why are the o5's hiding something from the rank and file members of the foundation this is crazy Now since then dr. Clef has removed a poly on from that article Because it started being used in ways it weren't exactly what he intended and so while Ketter itself can be a world-ending threat Heck some safes can be world-ending threats a poly on seems to mean on the wiki right now Things that are universally world-ending and also are probably already happening in shaggy dreadlocks 0-0-1 proposal when day breaks all of humanity has been melted and so a poly on in scp 3 9 9 9 We have a reality bender resetting the universe to destroy it again and again a poly on Oh, I can cover it, but I don't think you're gonna get the answer you're looking for scp 6 a 2 can't be killed full stop scp 6 a 2 can't be killed the reason is it's not artistically interesting to kill 6 a 2 The thing that's interesting about 6 a 2 as a writer is being able to come up with all the cockamamie ideas about how it survives We launched it into the Sun. Well it grew solar sails and flew back so deal with it Let's take this from another perspective in one punch man Saitama is not going to get his big fight that makes him challenge because he's one punch man He one punches what's interesting about Saitama is how he deals with the depression of not getting that fight about how he finds Wholeness in his friends in his life without that one thing Saitama won't get that big fight and 6 a 2 won't be killed