Your Friday Fun Writing Challenge: Write a Fake Wikipedia Entry
Flex your creativity and your dry humour. Invent a totally fake concept and write a dead-serious Wikipedia entry for it. Citations optional; hilarity guaranteed.
Fun Fridays in the Writers’ Den are all about reminding ourselves that writing can be weird, joyful, and totally unserious. These little creative detours aren’t just amusing but keep your brain flexible and your voice sharp.
Today’s challenge is simple: lie like a professional—but make it sound official.
Your mission: pick a completely ridiculous, made-up concept—an imaginary creature, invention, tradition, or conspiracy theory—and write a Wikipedia-style entry for it.
It should read like a real article: dry tone, serious formatting, and all the false authority you can muster.
Your entry should include:
A straight-faced intro
Some "historical" context
A weirdly specific detail or two
Optional citations to imaginary sources
🔥 Need inspiration? Try one of these:
The Sock Goblin: A household creature first documented in 1872. It thrives in dryers and subsists entirely on left socks and spite.
Emotional Support Cactus: Popularized in the early 2010s, believed to absorb negative energy through passive-aggressive spikes.
The Great Pudding Tax Revolt: A little-known 18th-century rebellion in Northern England sparked by overregulation of custard-based desserts.
The Time-Traveling Pigeon Theory: A fringe belief that pigeons are government-issued time messengers sent to correct historical errors.
Set a timer for 15 minutes and go all in. Keep the tone straight, the details ridiculous, and have as much fun as possible.
Bonus points if your entry has [citation needed] in just the right spot.
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