Best written-diary SCPs/stories for inspiration
Best written-diary SCPs/stories for inspiration?
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Interested in writing a heavily diary-based article and looking for good advice
If you're interested history then perhaps Anne Franks diary or perhaps you could think outside the box, and milk this current Ukraine and Russia thing.
Perhaps a researcher who accidentally made an anomalous bio-weapon and documented it?
Perhaps a diary found on Mars in the year 2100?! Made by extra terrestrial life claiming to have witness the demise of all other life forms?
Idk, I don't do diaries
perhaps you could think outside the box, and milk this current Ukraine and Russia thing.
This comes off as extremely tactless. OP, it's highly recommended not to do this; previous attempts to use world events (most notably the COVID pandemic) in a similar matter have been very poorly received by the voting audience.
Idk, I don't do diaries
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Keep a journal and write an entry every day. I've been doing that for quite a while now (three years), and just writing down some interesting things that have happened during the day. Not a particularly great writer or anything, but keeping an IRL journal really helps later on with writing fictional ones. https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-14904482/journal-entries-input-help I was asking some questions about the technical parts. :)
what other diary themed SCP's, and stories in general would anyone recommend?
It depends on what kind of examples you're looking for. Diary entries can serve different purposes in a narrative, and not all diary entries are used for the same story beats. Are you looking for pieces with a strong speaker/writer voice, meant to provide characterization more than plot points? Or are you looking for something that provides story and worldbuilding? A mix?
I relied on diaries when writing SCP-5930 and I would like to think they are what’s best about the article. I write a diary and have read plenty as a part of my History major.
I used journal entries in SCP-039. I’m not sure how “good” they’d be next to 3008 or 5000, but I at least feel like I accomplished what I set out to do. There are several places in 039 where Cole’s knowledge conflicts with what the Foundation has verified, or when he misses something the reader gets, thus creating dramatic irony. I also adopted the less is more stance with the entries, trying to limit extraneous details to maintain focus on the plot relevant bits, while leaving small but tantalizing hints towards the mysterious parts. One of the big advantages of journals and such is freedom from being scientific, both in your tone and the characters’ behavior. Cole leaves out things that the Foundation would’ve documented, and he doesn’t detail the context of a lot of what he says because the document was never intended to be read by anyone else.
Alright so I may not have a successful SCP but I’ve actually wrote one mildly successful fiction story that was a first-person record type story, you don’t have to read it and I’m not linking it (because I wrote it on paper) but as a recommendation, I’d recommend certain books written by psychologists as they document things in journal-type books, all their stories are true, and they all evoke emotion as well as deal with mental health which is a common underlying topic on many SCPs and something necessary to have as a writerI believe there’s one called something like,”The Man who thought his Wife was a Hat”. If you find this helpful feel free to tell me, if you didn’t, also feel free to tell me. I’m just trying to help.
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