Announcing the fourth annual September Kinky Scribble challenge, which launches on Tuesday, September 1st, 2026!
The strategy of a Kinky Scribble is to produce creative content in a short amount of time, give it minimal edits and some content tags, then release it into the wild for others to enjoy.
Think of a Kinky Scribble as the writing equivalent of a quick pencil sketch. You could turn it into an oil painting with a lot of time and effort, or you can have fun sketching it, sharing it, and then move onto your next project.
Back in 2023 I decided to run an informal size kink writing challenge for myself and anyone in the community interested in participating. It was a blast, so I decided to keep it going as an annual event.
Last year’s turnout was incredible, and I’m pleased to report that collectively since the challenge began, we have put in roughly 100.5 hours of writing time and a cumulative 112,176 words!
Parameters
The goal of the challenge is to write one or more stories within the month of September, using the Kinky Scribble format:
- must be at least 500 words long, no max limit
- cannot be written with the use of “generative AI”
- can be flash fiction, a vignette, or prose poetry
- can be NSFW or SFW
- write it quickly
- give it minimal edits
- add content tags, esp. the most important Top 17 Tags
- share it publicly within 24 hours:
- include #SeptKinkyScribble
- mention wordcount & how long it took you (optional)
- Submit your story with this Google Form to ensure your stories are featured in my Oct 1 blog post* (optional)
You can focus on writing one, two, ten, or try for as many stories as you can make before September 30! (One author last year, Butcher @bitchcassidys, had the absolutely brilliant idea to use the challenge structure to write a 17K-word story in 14 separate scribbles over 14 days.) There’s no story limit and no upper wordcount limit.
Share your story wherever you usually post your work, and include the hashtag #SeptKinkyScribble. On October 1st I will take all the story submissions in the google form and feature them on my blog!
Common places size kink writers publish are: their own blogs/websites, DeviantArt, Tumblr, Cohost, Giantess World, Giantess City, Outsized (the successor to Coiled Fist), Daddy’s Dollhouse, Archive of Our Own (AO3), Literotica, FanFiction.net, Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing, Smashwords, in a long BlueSky thread, or, as a last resort, a Google Doc with open viewing permissions and a link shared to social media. Remember that private forums like Giantess City and Daddy’s Dollhouse aren’t fully public. Be careful to check a platform’s terms of service about X-rated content and how they might legally or illegally take user’s work to train generative AI software.
At the end of the challenge, my plan is to make a blog post and a list of links to stories for people who participated. Again, comment below or email me the link to your story if you want to be included.
Let’s see how much we can create in the next month!
*Important: this is not a contest and I have some hard limits due to past trauma, so I will not be reading all the stories. In my blog post celebrating our work at the end of the month, I will only include links to public stories, and stories that offer content tags. For accessibility and consent, if your stories include themes from the Top 17 Content Tags and you do not tag them, I will not share those until you add tags at the start of the story. I reserve the right to not feature a story for any reason.
Deadline & Countdown Timer
I’m setting the deadline to the very last minute of September in my time zone: 11:59pm Central Time (UTC−06:00) on Wednesday, September 30th, 2026.
How many stories can we scribble together until the deadline?
Share the challenge with your followers
You can share my announcement post on BlueSky here! Every bit of boosting helps.
Here’s some text to copy/paste into your own social media post, if it feels good to announce your participation. (It’s also totally okay to announce it after you’ve participated—whatever works best for you and your motivation.)
I’m taking the #SeptKinkyScribble Challenge! Share sizey stories of 500+ words w/ the #KinkyScribble format: write it quickly, give it minimal edits, add tags, and share it with the world within 24 hrs. In Oct @ellelargesse.bsky.social will feature participants on her blog. Wish me luck!
Where to submit info when you’re done
Please complete this Google Form to be featured on Elle Largesse’s October 1st, 2026 blog post celebrating participants.
This form is optional and not needed to participate September Kinky Scribbles, but it is needed to be featured on the blog. As more people participate each year over a variety of platforms, I want to make sure I don’t miss recognizing any participants! You may submit again if you write additional Kinky Scribbles.
What can I write about?
Stories can be SFW or NSFW. It can have lots of sex or no sex, comfy cuddles or dark themes, or something you find erotic or adorable or both or neither. You can write a simple vignette—a brief scene without a full plot—but if you have a plot arc in mind, then by all means go ahead!
I recommend finding an idea that excites you mentally, emotionally, or physically. It’s easier to launch into a scribble that makes you curious. What’s your personal favorite theme in size kink erotica? What’s a moment you love in a movie that you wish had size difference? What’s the fantasy you wish you saw more often? Can you feature that fantasy in two different ways in two different scribbles?
Sometimes I start with a small speck of a concept (a first kiss with a tiny, or how cold weather would affect size interactions) and it stays simple. Sometimes a more complex story reveals itself as I write (whoops, it’s an orgy now!) and I end up in a mad frenzy trying to keep the story to a reasonable length (if she’s so tiny, why is her story 4100 words).
You won’t have time or space to tackle complex topics in-depth, so it can help to focus on a single powerful moment.
For example, instead of trying to write an entire wedding, you can try writing the scene where the vows are interrupted by someone outgrowing the building. Instead of offering the full worldbuilding download of how your growth serum / shrinking potion works and all its limitations, you could just show us that it works and that it has a limitation, and your readers will fill in the rest.
What is the most intense and impactful moment of the larger story? Zoom in on that.
Important: this is flash fiction, so you want to avoid topics that need careful consideration, time, research, and sensitivity reads. I learned that the hard way in 2025. Thanks to the kind, quick feedback of a sensitivity reader I bartered with, I decided that the world didn’t need my slapdash effort on something that could cause harm when handled without care.
It can feel thrilling to try and write something quickly, especially when you give yourself permission to let it be messy and imperfect. That’s one reason I like to share the length of time I spent writing and editing, because nobody reasonable would expect a masterpiece when it’s written in fifteen minutes or two hours. (And if they do, then they are not my audience.) You do not need to explain how long it took you, unless that is a positive strategy for you, too.
My Goals for This Year
My own personal goals: Once again, this year is handing me a very stressful September. I will be moving! Therefore, my personal goal for the 2026 challenge is to write and publish at least one kinky scribble, and be kind to myself if I’m not able to make that happen.
My Tips for Kinky Scribbles
These are the tips I will personally offer for this particular challenge. Since we’re doing these quickly and aiming for a messy scribble, there are strategies that can help us do that.
Much of this comes from other peoples’ wisdom I’ve absorbed over the years, though I can’t recall sources. A lot of this comes from my own self-talk while writing!
- focus on a single powerful moment
- try ideas that excite you, not what you think you “should” write
- avoid topics that need care, time, research, & sensitivity reads
- don’t explain worldbuilding, just show it happening
- less plot, more vignette
- zoom in on sensory details
- ask your inner editor to cut you some slack, just for now
- lean into curiosity
- playfulness, instead of perfection
- let it be messy, like an artist’s sketch
- all it needs to do is exist
- afraid it won’t be good enough? “stay afraid but do it anyway”
- remember you’ll be in good (& imperfect) company!
A Flowchart to Calibrate Expectations
Here’s a handy flow-chart for anyone who’s worried you might “fail” at writing a Kinky Scribble. Spoiler: I’m proud of you no matter the outcome!
Other Tips
Strictly speaking, I am defining a Kinky Scribble as a specific kind of low-stakes, quickly-written flash fiction, vignette, or prose poem. It can be whatever you want or need it to be.
A couple years ago I wrote a section of my announcement post to offer more tips on this: Other Tips on Flash Fiction, Vignettes, and More.
Why take this challenge?
My goal with this challenge is to help bring more sizey writing into the world, and to help myself build confidence and earn a little dopamine to remind me how much fun writing can be.
For myself, I want to pick my momentum back up and start sharing things again. I feel like the happy brain chemicals of this can help fuel me in my longer projects where I want to give the work more polish, but often run out of steam.
The first year I launched this challenge, I had been thinking about this tweet from sex writer Kate Sloan, author of 101 Kinky Things Even You Can Do:
A lesson I learn over and over again, in every type of writing I’ve ever done, is:
Posting/sharing the thing quickly is good for dopamine & building confidence
Editing/honing the thing for days/weeks before posting it is good for making art you are deeply, enduringly proud of
— Kate Sloan (she/her) (@Girly_Juice) June 23, 2023
Most of my long work that I am deeply, enduringly proud of began as kinky scribbles. When the time comes to share, I sometimes realize that the potential I saw in the story feels too delicious to pass by for a little dopamine.
When that happens I can feel frustrated with myself, but I try and let go of my narrative that “I’m failing at Kinky Scribbles” and focus on the fact I discovered a project that really speaks to me. I don’t regret transforming those into longer pieces and devoting more time to them. It’s okay to change your goals for a project once you can see the shape of it more clearly!
I’m also proud of the stories I kept as kinky scribbles, proud of creating them and releasing them, and especially proud of being playful and leaning into my love of writing.
In short, I’m trying to lean into the Andy Warhol philosophy:
“Don’t think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
Compassion & calibrating expectations
In 2023, this event was harder than I thought it would be, because reasons, and after 23 days feeling completely frozen, I seriously considered bowing out of my own community writing challenge. Controversial opinion here—it would have been okay if I had.
Sometimes these things move in cycles. Sometimes creativity stays out of reach for a long time, and that’s especially true for writing erotica with that added dimension of sexuality. If you’ve never heard of the Dual Control Model of sexuality (I have a short thread on it here) I’d also suggest there’s a similar model for creativity.
Sometimes no matter how much we want to be creative, there’s a lot of stuff weighing down our minds and bodies, and we have to take care of those things—and ourselves—before we’re able to explore and go the speed we’d prefer.
My partner pseudoclever and I have talked at length about our different writing styles, and last year she pointed out that the increased time pressure of a Kinky Scribble can actually raise stakes that won’t work for everyone.
For me, the deadline helps me overcome my desire for perfection because the ridiculous time frame forces me to give up my desire to make it The Best Story I Can Write™. I put up with high stakes in timing so that I can benefit from the low stakes of quality.
On the other hand, a lot of people might need a completely different structure. Writing something with a long (or nonexistent) deadline allows for flexibility that’s super important to some folks with mental or physical health issues, people caring for kids or older family members, or those with demanding jobs or other responsibilities.
Flexibility like this, low stakes in timing, is something that was vital for pseudo as they wrote and edited their phenomenal erotic novel, Eve’s Boutique and its sequel Sisterhood of Six, now available for sale in multiple eBook formats and being released a chapter at a time on AO3!
I’ve needed that kind of flexibility and grace for a lot of projects, too, like my lesbian love story Dare You Not to Grow, which started out as a kinky scribble, but I could feel that it wanted more space to, well… grow. Over eleven months, the story eventually came to 14,000 words in six chapters. I’m really proud of how it turned out, and glad I listened to that impulse.
In situations where you care a lot about the outcome, it’s okay to go slow. Low stakes in timing made it possible for pseudo and I to put high stakes into quality.
Sometimes you want to take your time with art to makes something you are deeply, enduringly proud of. Sometimes you want a fun mad dash to some dopamine. Different creative projects require different tools. Use whatever feels best for you and your story!
If you can join us for this challenge, I am thrilled to have you. If you give it a try then realize you need to re-calibrate because this challenge isn’t for you right now, that’s okay too. Trust me, I’ve been there.
I’m proud of us all for trying, and for everything we create!
To quote the outro of the Writing Excuses podcast: okay, you’re out of excuses, now go write!
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