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Welcome to the Essay Hub! This page contains a number of helpful articles on various topics relating to writing SCPs. If you're looking for specialized advice on a variety of topics, this is the place to be. Please visit the Guide Hub for more general guides to participating in the community.
Essays
Helpful essays on a wide variety of topics. Should be considered as opinion pieces rather than authoritative, but nonetheless are very useful for new and veteran members alike.
Specifics of the SCP-verse
Essays dealing with writing in the SCP universe.
- A Few Examples Of Things Not To Do In An SCP And What To Do Instead: Mistakes common to new writers on the site, and how to fix them.
- Common SCP Pitfalls: An outline on common recurring problems seen in bad SCP articles.
- Documentation Tips: Helpful tips on how to approach writing a story in a clinical SCP style and what to consider when planning your article out.
- Containment Protocols: Guidelines for how to write up plausible and concise containment procedures.
- Ideation: A Guide to Making Good Ideas Out of Nothing: An essay on coming up with SCP ideas.
- Let’s Talk About Character For A Minute: An essay explaining the key issues with supernatural Agents and Doctors in the SCP universe, a brief discussion of wish fulfillment characters overall, and how to avoid common pitfalls in your own writing.
- Metacritique 2: Anomalous Art: An essay on writing about anomalous art, and on writing in general.
- So You Want To Write A Humanoid SCP Object: An essay that aims to give advice on the approach one should take when writing a humanoid SCP object.
- The Foundation and Evil: The Foundation is not cruel, but cold.
- Understanding Memetics: An essay explaining what the hell memetics are in the context of the SCP Foundation Universe.
Style and Prose
Essays dealing with Style, prose, and general writing tips.
- An Exercise in Narrative Based SCPs: An essay on how to write a cohesive narrative in the SCP format.
- Cliches and You: An Essay on how to properly write about or avoid cliched topics.
- Rules of Thumb: A collection of rules of thumb, compiled and collected from experienced members of the site.
- Conservation of WTF or, ‘Why does the rabbit need two brains?’: An essay outlining the mindset one should take when approaching anomalies while writing. How weird is too weird?
- Essays on Style: a great compilation of insights from various authors into their writing process, tips and tricks. Well worth the read.
- How to be Scary Without Saying Anything: Exactly what it says on the tin. Elision and the Five Deadly Phrases.
- Roget's SCP Walkthrough: An essay on how to write an SCP for the first or tenth time written in understandable language for ease of access.
- The test log you have dialed cannot be reached at this time...: An essay on how to write Joke articles.
Coding and Technical
Essays dealing with Coding in the wikidot format and related topics.
- Advanced Formatting and You: An essay detailing how to code several advanced formatting effects into an article.
- Photoshopping Your SCP: An essay/tutorial for easily creating illustrations for your articles with Photoshop.
- Wiki Syntax: A handy reference for common wikidot coding syntax.
Knowing Your Stuff SCIENCE!
Essays dealing with clinical tone, technical writing, and tips on using technobabble.
- Classified and You: A brief rundown of what classified means, and how access to classified material works.
- Clinical Tone: Declassified: tips for getting that ever-elusive clinical tone in your articles.
- Random But Useful: A brief page of random but useful odds and ends.
- Technical Writing: Writing about technical matters for the non-technical. Most of us are authors, not scientists. This might be useful if you want to get that technical twist in your writing that you're having problems with.
Supplemental Information
Collections of useful information to writers.
- A Semi-comprehensive List of Mobile Task Forces: A full list of every MTF used in articles on the site, including descriptions, appearances, logos, etc.
- Glossary of Terms: A thorough glossary of wiki jargon you will encounter here.
- The Big List of Overdone SCP Cliches: A list of common cliches that writers may wish to avoid or subvert.
Community Engagement
Essays dealing with participation in the community.
- Extra-Community SCP Sites Guide: A guide to making an extra-community SCP community, and being recognized by the main Foundation site.
- How to create a branch of the SCP-Foundation: Instructions on how to create a translation branch of the SCP Foundation.
- Hornby’s Audio Guide: A rather thorough guide on how to construct an audio drama.
Critique and Feedback
Essays dealing with how to give and take critique on writing.
- How to Become a Better Critic: Things to keep in mind when leaving reviewer comments and feedback.
- How To Get Good Feedback: An essay on what to do in order to receive quality critique for your draft.
- Metacritique 1: The Critic's Duty: Some guiding principles for critique, and discussion about the place critique has in the SCP wiki and its community.
- Standard Form For Downvotes: A humorous answer as to why people may downvote an article.
Roget’s History of the SCP Universe
Roget has taken it upon himself to write essays detailing the history of the SCP wiki.
- History of the Universe Part One
- History of the Universe Part Two
- History of the Universe Part Three
- History of the Universe Part Four
- History of the Universe Part Five
- A Brief History of the Russian Branch
- A Brief History of the Korean Branch
- A Brief History Of Foundation RP
- Supplementary Material for Roget’s History Series.
