Um, hi long time lurker first time writer. And as stupid as it is for a rookie I thought I would pitch something for the 5kcon. Any how my idea is that an Agent's daughter just vanishes as she got off a train to meet up with him at the pier in their home town, with no explanation to how or why. Like here she is stepping off the train but she never came onto the platform. Now here where the crazy stuff happens, the Agent starts getting messages and photos from his daughter implying that she is in some sort of warped dimension, but soon stop after 48 hours. Now I'm in a bit of a bend, cause I have no clue how to describe that in foundation speak.
I mean, you already have it related to Silent Hill and it sounds like it's kinda bordering on plagiarism. Plus, what's the actual anomaly here? The train? The girl? The dimension? This sounds more like a Tale than an SCP, and not a particularly interesting one at that. You seem to have the inverse of a common problem because here you have a planned story but no real anomaly defined.
Things What Do a Thing: An Essay On Anomalies That Are Things That Do A Thing
Essay Regarding SCPs, Narratives, and How They Can Share a Page
There are other guides there that can be very helpful, but these are some of the most often recommended for first-time contributors.
I recommend reading a significant amount of the top-rated SCPs from the last several months, and focus on reading more recent SCPs rather than older series. Many early series SCPs would not last a day under current SCP standards, and a few are only still around because of their history with the wiki itself. (This does not apply to all early series SCPs, but many of these were written before the wiki's style had really been cemented.)
I am not saying this to discourage you, I just want you to understand the amount of effort that goes into creating a successful SCP.
Personally I would step back from this because it's just way too similar to an established property.
An addendum to Doctor Fullham's post, and to reply to some stuff you've said. I would like to forewarn that I may be a little sharpish in my reply, we don't do this because we're trying to be mean and make people cry, but to ensure that the presenter of ideas understands what is flawed within their proposal and makes adjustments that can allow the idea to become something much more improved and up to the high standard that SCP authors are expected to have in this day and age. Whether you take on suggestions or critcisms is in your hands, you're not oblieged to listen to what we say, but if you want your piece to reach the point where it's officially designated, then you'd do well to heed.
I understand that you are new, at least in terms of the writing side, but in my honest opinion, you would have to write something astonishingly unique and well crafted to have a chance at the 5000 slot. I unfortunately don't believe this concept would reach that without vast edits to what you've presented. Create a more realistic goal to start with, then build up, you can't run before you've walked.
The anomaly is a must in these things, and in your initial post you did not make it entirely clear what the anomaly was. You mentioned a story with multiple things that could be an anomaly, but not said what one is the actual anomaly. A missing person's case with anomalous factors isn't an anomaly in and of itself. The closest thing I could associate it to is an SCP I can't recall the designation of, but it's a subway train that occasionally enters our reality, then when it leaves the station it leaves our reality.
I've never played Silent Hill myself (I know, I'll get around to it) so I'm taking Fullham's word for this. Don't ever copy or have articles heavily related to a specific game/book/movie unless the anomaly is somehow based around it. From what I can see, this is more a tale than an SCP in its own right.
Yeah it's not exactly silent hill, I just was using that as a lazy description. But yeah I guess the daughter just vanishing doesn't exactly count for scp on its own… but i was think that the foundation might monitor other similar missing person cases for other instances.
I understand that you are new
I mean, so are you. I wouldn't recommend putting down another aspiring author when you haven't got anything on the wiki yourself either. Even after you have something successful, you still shouldn't put people down for being new.
I would like to forewarn that I may be a little sharpish in my reply, we don't do this because we're trying to be mean and make people cry, but to ensure that the presenter of ideas understands what is flawed within their proposal and makes adjustments that can allow the idea to become something much more improved
Who exactly is "we" here in this conversation? I feel like this is unwarranted for OP who just gave their own ideas.
I understand that you are new, at least in terms of the writing side, but in my honest opinion, you would have to write something astonishingly unique and well crafted to have a chance at the 5000 slot. I unfortunately don't believe this concept would reach that without vast edits to what you've presented. Create a more realistic goal to start with, then build up, you can't run before you've walked.
What do you mean by this? It doesn't matter what idea you have, ANYONE can write for the slot. There's no guarantee that they'll get the slot, but they never even said that they wanted the slot from what I can gather from their post. Not to mention that this feels like talking down on someone giving out their own ideas.










