- Joined
- Jun 17, 2018
Lmao, out of the ~6 I skimmed, 3 were set in the Amazon rain forest. None of them NEEDED to be set in the Amazon rain forest, because the fact that it’s in the rainforest is never relevant to the plot at all.
Just a quick tip for any aspiring writers - the first thing you come up with has a pretty good chance of also being the first thing a million other people come up with, because you’re not that fucking special. That’s why you brainstorm a lot of concepts and then do a review to toss all the cliche’d ones and pick out the best.
Anyway, I’ll throw in a few comments about Kaktus’ proposal - I’ll give him that it was interesting enough for me to read the whole thing through til the end (unlike Shaggy’s behemoth of a bore-fest that I skimmed and clicked out of once it hit the choose-your-own-adventure tales), but why is this wannabe Tolkien bullshit an SCP? As its own thing this conflict between fairies and prehistoric demi-gods could potentially be interesting, but it feels so out of theme for the SCP Foundation. The attempt to incorporate a bunch of older SCP’s that have nothing to do with each other also just comes off as very fanfictiony.
Also, I gotta say, “Bigfoot are an intelligent precursor race that humans overthrew” is a MUCH more interesting concept than “Bigfoot are actually a fairy superweapon that turned on their makers and are actually pretty much just literal bogeymen”. What makes SCP-1000 interesting is that it DOES leave a lot to the imagination. Retconning it to fit into your grand mythos just makes it lame.
Just a quick tip for any aspiring writers - the first thing you come up with has a pretty good chance of also being the first thing a million other people come up with, because you’re not that fucking special. That’s why you brainstorm a lot of concepts and then do a review to toss all the cliche’d ones and pick out the best.
Anyway, I’ll throw in a few comments about Kaktus’ proposal - I’ll give him that it was interesting enough for me to read the whole thing through til the end (unlike Shaggy’s behemoth of a bore-fest that I skimmed and clicked out of once it hit the choose-your-own-adventure tales), but why is this wannabe Tolkien bullshit an SCP? As its own thing this conflict between fairies and prehistoric demi-gods could potentially be interesting, but it feels so out of theme for the SCP Foundation. The attempt to incorporate a bunch of older SCP’s that have nothing to do with each other also just comes off as very fanfictiony.
Also, I gotta say, “Bigfoot are an intelligent precursor race that humans overthrew” is a MUCH more interesting concept than “Bigfoot are actually a fairy superweapon that turned on their makers and are actually pretty much just literal bogeymen”. What makes SCP-1000 interesting is that it DOES leave a lot to the imagination. Retconning it to fit into your grand mythos just makes it lame.
