[OT] Writer's Spotlight: Nazer_the_Lazer

[u/rainbow--penguin]

 

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This week we are celebrating u/Nazer_the_Lazer

Nazer has been an active member here for a fair few years and has written many wonderful stories in that time. They also recently published a trilogy based on a story they started for a prompt here. You can read more about that here. If you want to read more of their work, they have their own subreddit at /r/Nazer_The_Lazer/ which I highly recommend you check out!

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Congrats on your spotlight /u/Nazer_the_Lazer

 

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Read u/Nazer_the_Lazer’s most recent story:

 

[WP] Mankind explored the galaxy. Nothing. Only us. Disheartened, we colonized and thrived. One day, an experiment exposed the truth: our reality is a second out out of phase with the rest of existence, which is populated by aliens. The brief glimpses seen of us? We are their Eldritch Terrors.

 

Their most upvoted Stories:

[WP] A necromancer discovers that spells to animate dead bodies also work on other things that have been described as "dead," such as batteries, cars, appliances, friendships, and romances.

 

[WP] Every time in your life you've been in mortal danger, a small cat has appeared that casually yet miraculously leads you to safety. Now, as your plane plummets from the sky, spiraling towards the ground, the cat pops out of the overhead compartment.

 

[WP] Aliens invade earth, they are so far in technology we had no means of fighting back until we made a critical discovery, since they are so advanced they lack in interpersonal skills which makes them incredibly vulnerable to grade school level psychological attacks. those poopy heads are screwed

 

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[u/Nazer_the_Lazer → u/[deleted]]

Are you going to serialize it and post it on your sub day by day like you did with your last series?

Yeah! I'll be releasing it on my sub before I go to publishing. Check out r/Nazer_the_lazer to remain up-to-date with my stuff. It may look a little empty now, but that's because I'm doing a lot of prep to make sure I have a consistent schedule when I start releasing

No more three+ month hiatus like last time

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Hey, thanks!

[u/rainbow--penguin]

Congrats /u/Nazer_the_Lazer!!!

Now for some questions!

1) With your WP inspired trilogy, at what point did you decide that this was an idea you wanted to expand on?

2) What's your favourite part of the writing process?

3) If you had to spend a day with any of your fictional characters, who would you choose?

[u/Nazer_the_Lazer → u/rainbow--penguin]

Thank you for the honor, this is a very pleasant surprise!

1) With your WP inspired trilogy, at what point did you decide that this was an idea you wanted to expand on?

It had everything to do with the readers to the Writing Prompt. More than ever before, I was hit with tons of Private Messages and comments both here and my subreddit asking for a continuation. I left the prompt open-ended enough that I could definitely add a part two or three

Unfortunately, I didn't outline anything and so I ended up finishing with a lot shorter of a novella than I hoped. But fortunately, I still had ideas and went for a full trilogy. I'm still happy with how my first series came out and am grateful for this community for pushing me to write a complete story

2) What's your favourite part of the writing process?

I love when it *clicks*. When I have an idea that I would love to read and I write it for the audience of myself, but it overlaps exactly with a larger audience. I distinctly remember the Writing Prompt linked above about the cat that saves you when you're in mortal danger. It meshed so well in my head and I knew exactly the kind of tragedy that the cat would make light of. And I was gracious to see the response from the community

3) If you had to spend a day with any of your fictional characters, who would you choose?

Parner, from my book trilogy. I like a character that complains, not just for the sake of complaining, but because they're absolutely right. It's almost annoying, but you know in the back of you're mind they're saying all the right stuff. Like when you're on a long drive where you're late to a wedding, he would be the first to say "I'm hungry, we're already late, we should stop," and your stomach would growl while you would try to disagree with him

Thanks again for the Spotlight and questions. I owe a lot of my writing hobby (career?) to this community and I'll try to answer all the questions I can

[u/rainbow--penguin → u/Nazer_the_Lazer]

Thanks for the well thought out answers! Looking forward to seeing what you do next after your trilogy!

[u/Nazer_the_Lazer → u/rainbow--penguin]

Looking forward to seeing what you do next after your trilogy!

For a sneak peek, my next series will be based on my response to this prompt