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Fantastic Prompts August 2025english translation.

To participate use #FantasticPromptsEnglish
(to not clutter the German tag more than necessary.)

1. Introduction round: There are both "old rabbits" & "new noses" among us. Give us a brief introduction about yourself & what you're currently writing. You can also use this as self-promotion.

2. What were your favorite stories as a child?

3. Do they influence what you write today?

4. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your story?

5. If you could give your former self ome advice, what would it be?

6. What would you advise your main character (MC) regarding the situation in your story?

7. What advice could your main character give you regarding your situation, everyday tips, work area, or something similar?

8. What advice could your former self give you regarding writing?

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9. A banquet is coming up. What is the reason for the visit, and more importantly, what is served & how do your characters react?

10. How do you feel about reworking texts without the author's knowledge to include advertising? (Search query: advertisement for Maggi soup in a Star Trek novel)

11. World-building through advertisements, something particularly popular in video games. What do you think about this & would you use something like this in your work? (Examples: The Outer Worlds, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 4 & 76)

12. Self-promotion II: Have your main character introduce your current work & include a link to where you can find more information, e.g., shop/website/social media.

13. Your work has been selected for a special edition with a foreword by another person. Who should write it?

14. You awaken in your story. What do you do?

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15. Choose one of your main characters, and they awaken in your favorite childhood story.
What happens?

16. Choose a character and have that character introduce themselves, as if applying for a job.

17. Question for writers: What is something you'd like to do but haven't been able to do yet?

18. Follow-up question: Do you have a character who can do this?

19. Is there a self-insert in your work, a character that corresponds to you?

20. Have you created a character who is your exact opposite?

21. Are there topics you'd like to explore but just don't have the courage to do so?

22. Are clichés always bad? What do you think?

24. You and your most recently written character wake up next to each other. What happened or what's happening now?

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25. Opposite Day:Choose something from your work, a scene, a character, a plot line, a location, etc. & try to create the opposite.

26. Choose a scene that has stuck in your mind & rewrite it from memory. (Example: Favorite scene from the last book you read/wrote, movie, etc.)

27. Do you have a favorite trope, or do you tend to avoid common tropes

28. Emotion in writing. How do you deal with it when your emotional state blocks you from writing?

29. From your main character's (MC's) perspective: "What has been your biggest failure as a writer so far?"

30. To plot or not to plot? What's your path?

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31. *Drum roll* The Finals!
Start a story by tooting 1-3 sentences. Dear
prompt answer readers, please check out what answers have already been given and add another 1-3 sentences to the story.

Thanks for the idea and permission to copy the prompt @saposcat, @willelm & @gahlearner , please also visit their prompt game. #ScribesAndMakers.

Thanks also to the participants who contributed questions; you helped me a lot. :)

Dear englisch writing community, this is a one off, in the beginning of
@[email protected], english translations where planned. However as every prompt & general writing person can tell you, writing is a lot of work & translating is also a lot of work, even with helping tools.

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Do to the structure of our community run prompt, not every monthly host has the same time & energy to do this. So please, take this as an glimpse into the universe of other languages writing prompts, maybe you want to set up your own prompts in another language, or start another community driven Prompt game or learn a new language?
I hope you have fun.:)
Sincerely
Anna Saultron

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1/2 I guess as a host I should at least answer them my self too. 😅
Here we go Prompts can be found above.
To participate use #FantasticPromptsEnglish
(to not clutter the German tag more than necessary.)

1. Introduction round: There are both "old rabbits" & "new noses" among us. Give us a brief introduction about yourself & what you're currently writing. You can also use this as self-promotion.

So, my name is Anna. I've been with the prompts since the beginning, and for almost a year now, I've been writing Star Ryde, an original sci-fi story set in my own universe, more sluggishly than fluently.
This month, I have the honor of posting the Fantasy Prompts for the community.
You can actually find most of what I write here on my profile.

What else is there? I'm affected by poverty, due to early retirement, have type 1 diabetes, suffer from depression, love gaming on consoles, don't really like computers (PCs), enjoy pen & paper role-playing ->
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<- games, have a half-dormant YouTube channel (see profile), have way too many hobbies for my lifetime, am part of the LGBTQIA+ community, a goth, mostly active at night, and build with building blocks Lego & alike.

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02.08. What were your favorite stories as a child?

- The list can be found here
Link:
https://nerdculture.de/@AnnaSaultron/114957002393717330

03.08. Do they influence what you write today?

- Yes absolutely. TLDR, to not simply translate my German answer:
I grew up with adventures and exploration, excursions into humans and their behavior. I hope I can bring something like what i felt, as kid, teen, adult into my work in a more broad and inclusive way.

04.08. What's the first thing that comes to mind when you think about your story?

- Kira, for some reason she is my face of Star Ryde despite not having a full facial structure in mind or a skin tone. Than it's Ashlei and that I really should get back into writing on it. But I clearly was a bit over ambitious with the English prompts in addition to the German ones.😅

#FantasticPromptsEnglish Ketchup 04.08.2025 (on my own prompts🤦🏾) #writing #SciFi #Original #WIP

05.08.2025
If you could give your former self ome advice, what would it be?

My German answer today includes a inner self dialogue analyzing myself, why I am so bad in following my own advice I spare you that part.

"The advice is simple sit down on your 2-9 letters (or 16 + a space German has many words for your butt) and simply write, it hasn't to be good. It can be made good later, but if you try to make every scene a masterpiece right away you will not progress in any way."

After which I got philosophical...

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06.08.2025
What would you advise your main character (MC) regarding the situation in your story?

For Kira, trusy your gut feeling

For Arkham, breath, think breath again, act.

For Ashlei, Bird, three, zero, beta, apple, apple, house, pocalypse, syntax, hause, automatic, seven, three, one nine.

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07.08.2025
What advice could your main character give you regarding your situation, everyday tips, field of work, or something similar?

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08.08.2025
What advice could your former self give you in regards of writing?

Setup a fix date, a day if the week, an hour or a word count daily so you have a clear goal in mind while writing.

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09.08.2025
A banquet is coming up, what is the reason for the visit and, more importantly, what's on the menu and how do your characters react?

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Not really good, rather stressed.
It should take place before the departure of the Ghoz'Tarc. Anika would probably rotate in the newly expanded kitchen with a few volunteers. Preparing ingredients. It would probably be "Bronze" the Admiralty, including Admiral Ron Hackett Anderson and some Union representatives. Of the crew, only Captain Anika Johanson, XO Kira Knox, Flight Commander Abbishek "Arkham" Pakthi, Dr. Kaiden, Chief Technician Trawella, XO Jenkins, XO Troika, Dr. Waberi, Security Chief Crosby, J., Rose & Talisa would be allowed to attend & the latter 3 only because they are part of Kira's ground team.
At the end there would be a small wrap up in the Captain's cabin discussing the details of the mission with even less crew.

For the menu➡️

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there would probably be Anika and Kira's families sweet and spicy chili with real Terran onions.
J.'s special blue fried noodles from her home colony and the Draken mysterious, greenish glowing, flame inferno pudding that is actually served flaming. Together with Lorgat stripes flamed on the pudding.
As drinks, whatever the Admiralty would bring.
Probably a few bottles of Romulan Ale,* if bottles of this licensed product could still be found, otherwise from Admiral RHA's private collection of fictional SciFi licensed drinks.

*Because Terrans love their Ancient SciFi, at least most of them, there are all kinds of food and drink from various franchises, in fact, they are the only licenses that still actively exist from those franchises.

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10.08.2025
How do you feel about reworking texts without the author's knowledge to include advertising? (Search query: advertisement for Maggi soup in a Star Trek novel)

Explanation in case the English search query doesn't provide and results.
This one is a curious case of the early 2000 when the German Heyne Verlag (Printhouse) Implemented such stuff in some German translated books.
Terry Pratchett could intervene and stop that from happening this to his work.

- Short answer I hate it longer answer will be provided in the German answer, probably.

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