Contrast with a conventional narrative where you do anything you like. Sort the facts to be revealed into the order of maximum drama and go from there. Describe things in a non-clinical manner. Twist the ending
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In theory I could alter the number from 4987 to something else to give myself more time but I should probably write more anyway, so I'll give it a go. If someone else takes the number with something unrelated, no problem, there's an obvious in-universe explanation built in
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Finally there is SCP-4739 (as seen in http://www.scp-wiki.net/introductory-antimemetics …). This one actually has a decent gimmick where you can't perceive/read the SCP entry until *after* the monster has caught you. The story even contains excerpts from the SCP entry
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This is an SCP idea which I actually originally conceived as an SCP, but then reconsidered because I thought a story, with a protagonist and human reactions and tension and suchlike, was a better way to deliver the idea
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Just building a conventional SCP-4739 entry out of those snippets would be very doable, but it wouldn't add a whole lot to the existing story. Like I say, redundant. And I figure slightly less effective
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However: there's a whole stack of content omitted from the story. The earlier logs, written by numerous different people, all trying independently to save themselves from SCP-4739, all ultimately failing
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These many-fold death logs are things which could in theory, and it's incredibly dangerous for someone as unsociable as me to say this, be crowdsourced
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(In this case the number SCP-4739 is unfortunately non-negotiable. It's the antagonist's surname converted to letters on a phone keypad)
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I would put together the SCP entry shell, leaving a bunch of redacted logs or "broken" links, then stick a contributor briefing in the comments and see what happens (probably chaos)
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So anyway, that's my current position on potential forthcoming 4xxx-series SCP entries. Those are some things which might or might not happen If you take a number I need before I fill it, that's fine, it saves me some work See you in the horrible pages
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Another reason it's difficult to tell a story using an SCP is that an SCP entry captures a single moment in time. It's not unlike trying to tell a story with a single photograph of a scene. It can be done, it's just easier with, you know, several photographs
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Your alternative is to construct a non-story SCP which is just a compelling, "instantaneous" entity/scenario. Which is hard all by itself and increasingly difficult due to competition. That bar is constantly ratcheting upwards. Much admiration to those who manage to clear it
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Constrained writing is good. To read, sometimes, sure. But mainly it's good for you the writer
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