Link to article: Writing Challenges List.
[[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] Looking for inspiration for your next piece? Want to put your writing skills to the test? Bored and up for some writing shenanigans? Join others and take on a challenge! This is a list of writing challenges/prompts generated by site members in the [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/c-2077310 Research and Resources forum]. The list was formerly contained in a [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1043838/challenge-threads forum thread], but has been moved here for visibility and tidiness. **For a challenge thread to be added here, it must have __either one or both of__ the following:** - At least five “I’m interested” or “I’m doing this” comments/posts, from different users. A challenge should be inspirational to authors and encourage discussion! - At least one successful page on the site that resulted from the challenge. A challenge should produce good work and fun! Please read the entirety of the challenge thread if you would like to participate in a challenge as an author! The descriptions listed are just small snippets of greater wholes. Happy writing! ------------- [[collapsible show="2011 Challenges" hide="2011 Challenges"]] 9 August 2011 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-381751 Bright’s Challenges]: Write an SCP in under 24 hours with no outside help, Roll 2 d23. Go to the cliche list, and make an SCP using the results, and more. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2012 Challenges" hide="2012 Challenges"]] 4 April 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-458929 Mann’s Bellerverse Challenge]: Come up with a story of the Bellerverse. The setting is effectively sword-and-sorcery, with SCPs standing in for the sorcery. 28 June 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-513784 Roget’s Challenges]: These challenges are also designed to help you become a better member of the foundation, whether you are here to critique, write, or be an editor. With HARDMODE. 11 November 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-585458/gears-challange Gears Challange]: So, we're going to peel back the clock a bit, and see how the new kids would have faired. 13 November 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-586457 Djoric’s Challenges]: Pre Mass-Edit List, GOIs, and arm-reach item. 16 November 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-589768 Drewbear's Challenges]: Involve physical senses, civilian survivors of SCPs, and Google searching your favorite color. on Page 2: tales about a holiday of a GOI, tales about Anomalous Items ended the world and Keters saving it, ultra-short articles, funny tales, make your own pics/audio/etc. 7 December 2012 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-600206 Eric_H Challenges You]: The next time you see an SCP that is getting deleted, claim that idea, rewrite it, and make it good enough to stay around. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2013 Challenges" hide="2013 Challenges"]] 31 January 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-620784 Wilt's SCP Challenge]: Roll dice, and use the tag guide. 18 February 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-625820 Smapti’s Reimagination Theatre]: take infamously bad SCPs of yore and write tales that take the core concept and present it in a new light. 4 May 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-649802 SoullessSingularity's Challenges]: Roll 2 1d15 for object and effect association, or write a tale that evokes a completely different response from the reader than the SCP object it was based on. 7 May 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-650566 Azzleflux's Challenges]: A few different prompts, plus an emotional pit to reference. 12 June 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-661290 Voct’s Challenge]: Take the basic ideas of two deleted SCPs, and combine them into something new and — ideally — wonderful. 17 September 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-696993 Bright’s A New Challenge Appears]: Write a tale about one or more author avatars! Funny, serious, just plain odd, any sort of tale whatsoever. 5 October 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-704995 Dmatix' Five Word Extravaganza]: The challenge is simple: pick five words completely at random (using a random generator) and use all five words as major components in your SCP, and only those five. Also easy mode. 7 November 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-721436 Drewbear's New Challenge]: The Home Game: Write a SCP that doesn't have a backstory or narrative attached. It's just something that's weird and mysterious and breaks the laws of reality. 27 December 2013 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-754855 Voct's Challenge 2]: Take two random pre-existing SCPs… and devise a connection between them. A tale, a crosstest, a backstory, whatever. Be creative. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2014 Challenges" hide="2014 Challenges"]] 19 January 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-764876 Gaffney's Challenge Thread]: Historical or religious SCPs? Winners will receive a banana sticker. 6 Feb 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-773041 Scantron's Official Only-Back-For-This-One-Post Challenge Extravaganza]: Eight challenges, with easy mode, cookies and brownies for completers. 7 April 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-841576/random-character-generator-challenge Djoric’s Random Character Generator Challenge]: Roll d100 for character faction, sex, age, and personality. Includes Easy, Hard, and Nightmare modes. 4 September 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1014402 Bright’s OFF THE WALL CHALLENGE]: post with your never thought it could be done SCP idea, sit back, wait a while, claim someone else’s, and try to make it work. 11 October 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1038502 Ihpkmn's Challenge Thread]: Make an Author Avatar, Write an SCP or Tale that’s entirely unplanned, and The Crosslink Challenge! 29 October 2014 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1046254 Fun Time with Dr. Bright!]: This is the "Random Groups of People to Make An SCP' CHALLENGE! In which three different randomly-grouped people write containment procedures, description, and then addenda, in that order, building off the previous sections. Read more to join the groups. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2015 Challenges" hide="2015 Challenges"]] 2 January 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1073383/ Hysteria's Challenge]: Aka, give the person above you a picture. 27 January 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1089474/ DreamwalkerFae's TvTropes Challenge]: Write an SCP based off of one of two random tropes generated by the TvTropes site. Hard mode: Use both tropes. 10 February 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1107457 Decibelle's Challenges]: A series of five challenges involving things you don't like, short containment procedures for non-Safe class SCPs, and random number generators. 5 March 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1140769/ Randomini's Flash Tale Challenge]: Three characters you didn't write, 1000 words or less, no peer review. Includes optional and impossible mode. 13 March 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1147092/ Zyn's Kawaii Insect Melodies]: Pick a cute bug or two, pick lyrics from a SID song or two. Hard mode: write a love story. 7 July 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1271813 "Tag-Free" SCP Challenge]: Go and look at the Tag Guide, and then try and write something that doesn't fall into any previously defined categories. 25 September 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1378332/ MrWrong's Fill Up the SCP Map Challenge]: Your challenge, should you choose to accept, is to make an SCP found/manifested in a country/dependency/state/province/sub-national division that has no SCPs. 5 December 2015 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1468460/ DEXANOTE'S CHALLENGE]: The challenge is this: A Tale about two SCPs in conflict. Dull, right? I thought so too. But the catch is, you must write it from the perspective of a civilian. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2016 Challenges" hide="2016 Challenges"]] 8 May 2016 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1703757 LordStonefish's Pick N' Mix Challenge]: Pick three terms from the list provided and create a concept out of them. Then write it up. Make them as strange and random as you want. 29 August 2016 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-1815424 SCP Ideas That Would Never Ever Work]: An open forum prompt generator thread! I'd like to hear your ideas… or rather your TERRIBLE ideas. Be sure to at least make them plausible in some context. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2017 Challenges" hide="2017 Challenges"]] 10 February 2017 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-2116184 Log of Anomalous Tales]: Pick an item from the log-of-anomalous-items, and make an interesting tale about it. 10 August 2017 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-3244956 Randomized Horror Story Challenge]: Using a horror story plot generator, write a scary SCP article. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2018 Challenges" hide="2018 Challenges"]] 9 January 2018 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-4819645 Underloved Series I]: Choose a Series I skip without any tales (under [[[scp-series-1-tales-edition|this list]]]) and write a tale about it. 2 April 2018 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-5666847 Become What You Hate]: Go to the [http://scpper.com/search scpper database], find the list of tags pertaining to articles you've upvoted. Take the three lowest and write an SCP with those. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2019 Challenges" hide="2019 Challenges"]] 2 January 2019 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-9813270/writing-challenge:tag-golf Tag Golf]: Come up with a combination of two attribute tags that haven't been used together before, then write something that uses them. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2020 Challenges" hide="2020 Challenges"]] 22 April 2020 - [http://www.scp-wiki.net/forum/t-13262147/writing-challenge-impostor-syndrome Imposter Syndrome]: Write an SCP in the style, tone, formatting, and subject matter of a different author, without getting critique or advice from said author. [[/collapsible]] ------------- [[collapsible show="2021 Challenges" hide="2021 Challenges"]] 18 April 2021 - [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14065563/writing-challenge-how-far-we-ve-come How Far We've Come]: Rewrite something you've written a year or more ago (or your first thing if it's been around 6 months or more) and compare versions. [[/collapsible]] ------------- Note: If you’ve made a new challenge thread and it could use more attention, you may make a post in this page discussion proclaiming the glory and awesomeness of your new challenge thread. One post per challenge thread; duplicates or bump posts will be deleted. Keep it fair to all new challenge-makers!