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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.😅

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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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11.08.2025
World building through advertisements, something that is particularly popular in video games. What do you think about it and would you use something like this in your work? (Ex: The Outer Worlds, Cyberpunk 2077, Fallout 4 & 76).

I like to use it to include eastereggs or to emphasize details and differences between societies.
It can even be very inspiring to just make up nonsense and write an ad for it. Even though I detest advertising in everyday life so much that I would prefer to ban all advertising.
In Star Ryde I would probably only use them if I wanted to build a scene around them (see beginning of answer).
In role-playing games, I often use them for ambience or perfidious distraction.
In creative video games, I even build my own billboards.

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12.08.2025
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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.

Arkham looking at Kira: "you bailedout on the last ancient language and let Ash handle that no it's your turn."

Kira:"I told you to do that, not Ash."

Arkham flashed her tongue at the commander:"You are the captain act like it."

Kira:"Fine i am still not the MC.
Annas work Star Ryde ist a almost retro classical military SciFi Story.

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I guess I can't force them too so yeah links... Just go to my profile so far I have no other online platforms other than a YouTube channel which is mostly for private use and very rarely updated with raw & bin edited gaming footage. In case I want to share a build or show an big fix/exploit in a game.

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13.08.2025
Your work has been selected for a special edition with a foreword by another person. Who should write it?

I guess is stick with my German answer here someone from the Fediverse I guess since Terry Pratchett is impossible maybe some one non controversial from his bubble.

14. You wake up in your story. What do you do?

Swear, stand up, check my belongings and where I am, some places might be deadly. So hopefully I'm in Union space and not on Moraka aka Talith Prime because drunk by breathing is an cruel death.

Going to a hospital and telling them that I'm a diabetic type 1 and otherwise my memory seems compromised because the stuff I remember don't make sense.

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16.08.2025
Choose a character and have that character introduce themselves, as if applying for a job.

(The original German prompt didn't ask for a job funny how translation software just adds stuff in, right...)

Let's go to a blind spot

Gordon Laflamè

Hello, my name is Gordon Laflamè, the Lafla is pronounced short & pressed mè normally. I come from the Luna colony Berlyn, you know the "Mining Outpost," I was born & raised on Terra Luna, enlisted in the military at 18. After witnessing our colony being defended by some brave cadets during an attack by some Rillaz.*
I'm just over 37 standard Terra years old so slightly older than 38 in Luna years if I haven't miscalculated. You know 365 vs 354 days, 4 leap years vs 3 leap years etc. Oh my pronouns are he/him
My hair color is platinum blonde & my eye color is brown. I am a Lieutenant aboard the Ghoz'Tarc.

*the 3 Mtr high naked Gorilla likes.

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17.08.2025
Question for writers: What is something you'd like to do but haven't been able to do yet?

Writing with a goal and constantly

18.08.2025
Follow-up question: Do you have a character who can do this?

Yes basically my stand in the Star Ryde Self Insert
Romance Alternate Universe or short SR:SIRAU

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

In my "usual" works not really. I am partly in each of my characters, there is always a part from which I explore & develop a character. This are often character archetypes in which I than implement something from me to brake up this archetype. Sometimes more sometimes less.

The whole thing has become a bit of a thing of its own, in RPGs as in the not so seriously ment Prompt answers of "character meets author_ity.
In the beginning Anna was an Character in Fallout 76, than in Fallout 4, than I changed my YouTube account to it & made a Twitter account for it. Than the one here.

Anna has become my link into my fictional worlds & in that regard a self insert.
Also I occasionally react to the Name Anna in daily situations.😅

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20.08.2025
Have you created a character who is your exact opposite?

No for a ton of reasons. Exact opposite would mean that their is a scale/slider or something that allows binary opposed personality traits, body traits & is generally acceptable. We like to think in binary or that everything is binary. If it isn't sparkling water it's still water. If it isn't male it's female but not only is this unrealistic it also "comfortable lies" to our perception. The opposite of a ball as an example would be a anti ball but most people would instinctively say a cube, which might be okay as an answer but how many corners make a ball? None? No exactly as many until people perceive it as a ball. But still even if we accept a cube as opposite we still have no perception of an anti non shape.
That said everything one calls an opposite is an mental "misstep," a concept to understand the world we live in easier. And thus none applicable without further framing what "I" means.

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21.08.2025
Are there topics you'd like to explore but just don't have the courage to do so?

Basically, everything I haven't experienced myself and can't find a way to relate to.
I also refuse to write down my political thoughts on current world events.
There's a reason I'm not in politics, despite the fact that I've had more than one opportunity.
We don't need more fire accelerants...
And pure dystopias... Many will just understand it as a guide.

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22.08.2025
Are clichés always bad?

Simple answer No
It depends what I do with them but for me they are the bread for my sandwich.
While writing I can make it a great sandwich or a bad one but at least they help me to produce something that I know. A sandwich.

(I promise my German answer is way better but I don't feel like translating it myself of let an AI butcher it ...)

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23.08.2025
Describe your story from the perspective of a character of your choice
who isn't the main character.

Skip

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24.08.2025
You and your most recently written character wake up next to each   other. What happened or what's happening now?

If I had only read my own questions prior and understood it, my most recent character is "me" in in the SRSIRAU. So yeah imagine a "are you a Mirror image" scene and a complete freak out.

What happened? I probably broke mentally and shattered as a person that now hallucinating or dreaming of meeting herself. Way more interesting would be the alternative I guess a spiritual ritual in which I discover aspects of myself which I'm not aware of.

My otherwise last written character would be AJ my Antagonist from Star Ryde in which case it also probably would find place in the SRSIRAU. So 'I' dimension shifted into the Star Ryde Universe and it would be probably lead to some sort of run in.
For Star Ryde I have no clue because I shouldn't be there.

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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.

Ground Dig
The opposite space story.

Around the bubbles we live in, under our feet and above is ground, earth, it reaches from one bubble to the next. Space diggers call these bubbles stenalp they are the natural space we inhabit. Due to the pressure that exists in this infinite ground, we have to dig our way from one stenalp to the next with drilling caterpillars. In which other beings live that look exactly like us, they also have our habits and eat and drink the same as us.
The dangers for space burrowers are manifold. Giant tentaclenoses that can tear apart any caterpillar with their claws. They look for wyrms to eat, these wyrms eat everything in their path, including us & our caterpillars.

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26. Choose a scene that has stuck in your mind & rewrite it from memory.

The Khan scene from Star Trek into darkness...

In an apple store somewhere in the galaxy a white dude stands in so much lens flair that his nose is almost gone, behind a don't touch screen and says "I am Khan Noonian Singh." With a gravity that should pull everyone down...
And it doesn't work because no one of the new fans of start Trek can know who Khan Noonian Singh in the main Star Trek Universe is nor did the movie much to establish who he is. It's like telling an alien your name is James Bond in an Indiana Jones Movie. An Easter egg nothing more.

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

Not really as with my answer from the 22. and the question about cliches I say they are a useful orientation point but need to be broken up by something.

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28.08.2025 Ketchup
Emotion in writing. How do you deal with it when your emotional state blocks you from writing?

I try to not force anything, instead I go inside myself and feel for what it is, that's blocking me from writing.
In the current situation it's fear of a lot of things. After finding out I distract myself. Favorable Videogames with a real good story or with creative elements, if it gets really bad simple shooting does the trick. While doing so, I make mental notes what I could implement or how I could have a solution for something like this in my story or if the thing I'm doing could be an interesting element in my story.

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29.08.2025 From your main character's (MC's) perspective: "What has been your biggest failure as a writer so far?"

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Time for the StarRydeSelfInsertRomanceAlternateUniverse.

Kira felt something was wrong, it felt like she was forcefully, moved at the same time as if she where pulled from something sticky, she looked around in the room, quite, bathed in sunlight and littered with pieces of paper, towering, being bound by strings, made into packages, folders over and over.
She touched different pieces one, through her gloves she felt a sizzling in her finger tips, one piece catched her views. It was a hand written side on which whole sentences seem to be... Cut out? Burned out? No more like carefully ripped from the paper.
Something moved.
She jumped behind the desk grabbing for her sidearm. As she closed her hand around the grip it didn't react, no visual or soft sound indicator that it was activating➡️

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29.08.2025
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⬅️ It simply seemed non functional. "It won't work here."
That was Anna's voice but she seemed not hostile more like beaten exhausted, tired, but somehow peaceful. Kira swallowed her anger and tried to sound like a normal person. "How do you know? Any forcefields that dampens tech?"
"No it can't work here. Try to connect to Ash, it won't work, your armors electric systems won't work either." She took a breath, it almost sounded reliefed. Kira checked her gear AMD than a shock rolled over her.
"My implants? Swex my Implants im going to die here?" Kira startet to cough uncomfortable as her lungs started cramping.
"Stay calm, you will not die, promise to not punch, kick or headbutt me and I come out."
Kira swallowed. "I promise."
A tower of paper moved to the side Anna's face was behind it at ground level only a meter away from Kira.
Kiras eyes widened, that was Anna but her face was different➡️

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⬅️not as weathered as it used to be. Kira tried her best to stay calm but her lungs didn't wanted too. At least it didn't felt as hostile as minutes before, right before this worry transport.
Anika slid out of her hiding spot, kneeling next to Kira who still tried to breath normal. Annas Hand grabbed an object from out of Kira's field of vision. She pressed something against Kira's lips inserting it into her mouth. "Open teeth." Kira followed, Anna used the object which made an hissing noise a weird taste followed. "Breath in," Kira hesitated. Anna said calmly, "I pump and you breath in the moment I pump, if I wanted to harm you I wouldn't have fled. This will help. On 3. 1... 2... 3..." Anna activated the device and Kira Tool a breath. It felt cold as the medicine went into her lungs. For a brief second she panicked even more before she felt her lungs relaxing. "Good girl." Anna smirked, Kira looked ➡️

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⬅️ as if she would punch Anna in an instant. Anna ignored it gently smiling before she stood up and holding out a hand to Kira, Kira grabbed it reluctantly but Anna didn't seem to have bad intentions and somehow all the anger Kira felt minutes ago was gone. She secured her stand against the desk, looked around again, looked at Anna and registered that she didn't have a single visible implant, she cleared her throat and spoke: "Where are we and why do you look so different."
"This is a long story... And yeah as I tried to explained it to you, you got very angry, remember 20 Minutes ago..." "Well... I guess I was calm enough in facing the reason for all the pain in my life being a weirdo I catched of a ship in a cell with writing on the walls." Anna smiled; "I guess you were. To be fair I don't know why I even told you about it... It was stupid." "Let's pretend I believe you, why? Why did you do all of➡️

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⬅️ this. Why creating a fictional story, and than implement yourself in it? Why falling in love with me? And Swex what did you do to me what I don't remember?" Anger came up again.
"I never forced you to anything... Well... I guess I can't say that... Not without further explanation."
"Try I'm listening."
"See you are in my head but I am not in control of you ... For the most part I don't know what you do until the story demands something. I come up with a frame work so your universe makes any sort of sense but I don't have a big plan."
"So the old cynical saying is true God is a cruel child with a magnifying glass ..." "No it's not like that and I'm not a god... I write, I create I think stuff." "That might be true from your personal perspective but if you think something it becomes my reality... Have you ever thought about that? All the stuff you do to make it an entertaining story have you ever➡️

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6/6 ⬅️ considered that you fucked over billions of creatures? Or are we only blimps in you though bubbles."

"What do you think why i created the universe you live in like it is... I gave you the Union and the alliance to strive for something I gave you Arkham and Ash... Yes I took Anika and your parents... But I did my best to keep your life life worthy... I can't tell an easy cozy story, I need it to be more than just two people cuddling, I need something to get lost in a reality I can control. Because in this..." Anna pointed out a window. "I'm this world I'm a nobody crushed by things your people got over with. For fucks sake I barely function on my own, depending on SOLD medicine..." "So your biggest failure is to deal with your reality? So you create a new one to escape? Maybe you shouldn't have told me about all of this and kept me in the unknown."
Anna dropped to the ground as she went pale.
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30.08.2025 Ketchup
To plot or not? What is your way?

I am mostly writing unplanned but absolutely without an at least rough outline it's not working.
So at some point I need to plot at least the toughest outlines as part of my writing progress

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31.08.2025
*drum roll* Finale!
Start a story by typing 1-3 sentences. Dear
prompt answer readers, please check what answers have already been given & complete the story with another 1-3 sentences.

Sarah turned up the bass, although the vacuum around the ship would not carry anything further, she intended to fully test the structural integrity of the small ship.

She wasn't interested in anything rebellious, just the pure enjoyment of loud metal sound in the blackness of space.

She took off her spacesuit, secured it to the wall, switched off the gravity, pressed play and pushed off from the wall, ready to be carried through space by the sound waves of the music.

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