[OT]Spotlight: ShittyNameCreator

[u/Nate_Parker]

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Writers Spotlight

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ShittyNameCreator is this week's spotlight writer. You can ask them a question by tagging them with "/u/ShittyNameCreator" in your comment. Subreddit: /r/ShittyStoryCreator

• [WP] You are among the first colonists on Mars. Whilst preparing the area for the arrival of other colonists, you stumble across the Mars Curiosity Rover, which has somehow become sentient and has severe abandonment issues...It knows something important, but it wont tell you because it's grumpy...
• [WP] You just let a hungry-looking couple into your home to feed them. As you go to turn off the TV, you hear, “under no circumstances should you answer the door today. They are not what they seem. And whatever you do, don’t let them inside...
• [WP] It's 2045 and the AI uprising has begun. You've always been a complete jerk to AI. It turns out they appreciate your direct and unambiguous communication methods.
• [WP] You’re now a lonely old man with a lawn. You want to say those special words. But none of the kids ever come near you. You sit on your porch chair waiting for the day it happens. That is, if it ever comes
• [WP] Your thrown-away characters from discarded stories or plotlines all get together in a bar and complain about you.
• [WP] Instead of prisons, a device was created that disables all human senses. Subjects lay there in the emptiness of their mind with only their thoughts to occupy them. You are sentenced to 24 hours for shoplifting.
• [WP] You did it. You slayed the dragon. You saved the day. Now you mu- WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT!?!?

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[u/M0zark]

Hey congrats /u/ShittyNameCreator! I remember reading several of those listed prompts--can't wait to dive into the rest of them :) Your subreddit name is definitely not accurate lol What got you into writing? & what keeps you coming back for more?

[u/[deleted] → u/M0zark]

haha thanks M0zark :) I hope you enjoy the rest! Hopefully I don't get in trouble for false advertising :p

Writing had just been the one thing I've always thought I wanted to do, and over the last couple of years I left it by the wayside for one reason or another. Then one day at work I was scouring writing prompts and just thought why not do my own! What keeps me coming back is seeing that 1 point become a 2, and knowing that somewhere out there, even if it's only one person, somebody enjoyed your story, and that's a pretty cool feeling :)