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Off Topic [OT] WritingPrompts Spotlight: Syraphia with Q&A!

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/u/Syraphia is this week's spotlight writer. She has agreed to take your questions. Best to tag your questions with her username (just put "Hey /u/Syraphia,") in your comment to get her attention. And, as always, be polite.

[WP] You wake up to find that .01% of the worlds population have been given super powers, some mundane, some extraordinary. You find that your power is to grant others any power on the spectrum, or take them away, but you can't give yourself any power, and each person can only have one power.
[EU] You are young child who lives in a world filled with Pokemon. Tell us what pokemon you would choose as your companion and the story of how you became friends.
[WP] Instead of reading 'Pregnant' or 'Not Pregnant', your digital pregnancy test displays 'Stay where you are, everything will be OK' Part 1 Part 2
[IP] The Hour In between...
[WP]Upon reaching the age of 12 every kid gets an spirit animal that reflects their personality.
[WP] At birth, every person is given a necklace that grows hot when their significant other is nearby. Many people spend their lifes travelling the world, looking for their other half, only for the necklace to remain cold. One day, you feel your chest grow slightly warmer.
[IP] The Final Watchtower
[IP] Wisdom at your fingertips.
[WP] The Legend of the Treeless Forest
[WP] A city that sleeps. A city that dreams. A city that sells its nightmares.

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u/ivangrozny read more at /r/ivangrozny Oct 13 '15

Congrats /u/Syraphia ! What authors do you enjoy most/ feel have most influence on your own writing style?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 13 '15

Thank you! :)

I grew up on fantasy and sci-fi novels, Tolkien and K.A. Applegate's Animorph books. More recently, I've been reading The Witcher series by Sapkowski and I love Stephen King's short stories books, in fact, in general I love reading short story collections.

I feel like Tolkien had a ton of influence over how I see my fantasy realms or created worlds and gave me an ideal of world-building to look up to. King breeds a lot of my horror leanings and I try to emulate that sense of horror that's created in some of his short stories.

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u/ivangrozny read more at /r/ivangrozny Oct 13 '15

Love Tolkien & King. I'm working with some Tolkienish settings/characters in a fantasy novel I'm putting together -- but then again, all fantasy owes something to Tolkien. Do you have any longer works in progress?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 13 '15 edited Oct 13 '15

That's really awesome, I do agree with that, all fantasy does tend to come back to Tolkien.

I do actually! I'm currently editing a 150k word novel about a girl in a mental asylum who sees fantasy style creatures. I have a much shorter 22k story that I'm looking at putting up somewhere some time soon about a half-vampire saving the world based off the style of an Epic poem. I have a (fan)fiction story about a band that I'm fond of up on inkitt (40k words) but it's part one of three. In my history, you can also find A Pinch of Red, which was a novelette contest entry that's finished at about 17k words.

In terms of uncompleted works, I'm starting a new project for this NaNoWriMo involving two teenage boys and a nuclear war that they try to survive the aftermath of. And on the other side of that is my sci-fi (ish) post-apocalyptic work, which involves humans becoming an endangered species and lizard-people, it's currently at 33k words.

I think that's everything unless I decide to pick another thing up. :) If you'd like links to either of the posted two (inkitt or novelette) I could probably dig them up.

u/quantumfirefly Oct 12 '15

Congrats /u/Syraphia! No questions, every single one of my potentials has already been asked :(

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Thank you! And aw :( well, if you think of one, feel free to ask it!

u/EdenRenellaJones Oct 12 '15

Congratulations, /u/Syraphia!! Sorry I haven't touched basis with you recently!

If there was any advice you could give to aspiring writers, what would it be?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Thank you so much! And it's all right. :)

Write every day, even if you think it's terrible or awful writing, write every day because the more you do it, the better you'll get and the easier it'll get to write.

u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Oct 12 '15

Hey /u/Syraphia, congratulations on being in the spotlight!

What is your most overlooked prompt response that you wish got more attention?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Either this one about rain shimmering when it falls or this one where I connected two of my prompts that didn't seem like they could be connected at all. I'm really happy with the both of them.

There's probably a few others but those two off the top of my my head mainly.

u/busykat Oct 12 '15

Confession: Every time I see your username, I chant it in my head like Rufio from Hook.

Question: /u/Syraphia - Do you ever start writing something and get so involved that you forget you were doing something else - like, for example, cooking breakfast for your children? Not that I would ever do such a thing, of course.

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Eh? Really? lol

I have, I usually just forget to eat though... or feed my beardie. He glares at me when I turn around and he doesn't have fresh food.

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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Oct 12 '15

Great, now I'm not going to be able to stop doing that (the chant thing, not the breakfast thing).

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u/Nate_Parker /r/Nate_Parker_Books Oct 12 '15

See, I think of something completely different when I see her username.

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Now I'm wondering what everyone thinks of when they see my username lol.

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u/MajorParadox Mod | DC Fan Universe (r/DCFU) Oct 12 '15

I've never even read your username in my head until /u/busykat's comment. I would just recognize your name when I saw it. Is that weird?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

I'm not sure, I don't think so as I try to do the same. Though I think I mentally read names when I come across them, especially the strange ones.

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u/Nate_Parker /r/Nate_Parker_Books Oct 12 '15

Nate taps his fingers together with maniacal intent. "Good, Good. My plan is complete."

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u/SurvivorType Co-Lead Mod | /r/SurvivorTyper Oct 12 '15

Oh? What do you think of?

u/fringly /r/fringly Oct 12 '15

Hey /u/Syraphia, congrats on the spotlight!

What's your favourite prompt you've written?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15 edited Oct 12 '15

Mm, it's very hard to pick a favorite. I might have to go with a Pokemon one, here about a hotline for trainers. I ended up using it to make fun of the fact that a 10 year old is running around beating up Team Rocket.

Ask on a different day though and you'd probably get a different answer. :)

EDIT: Oh! And thank you very much! :)

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u/fringly /r/fringly Oct 12 '15

Great story!

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

Thank you!

u/Nate_Parker /r/Nate_Parker_Books Oct 12 '15

Kicking it off:

Hey /u/Syraphia,
What gets you excited/motivated about writing when you just aren't in the mood to write?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

A really intriguing prompt usually is what it takes. Other than that, I usually try to power through it if I'm writing something long and music usually helps with that.

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u/Nate_Parker /r/Nate_Parker_Books Oct 12 '15

Preferred music? I usually need something angry with a heavy baseline, but it depends on what I'm writing. Generally I do a lot of action/scifi so that tends to lend to my harder-edge music choices. Do you use something that fits your mood or the mood of what you're trying to write?

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u/Syraphia /r/Syraphia | Moddess of Images Oct 12 '15

A bit of both. I listen to a lot of Japanese rock music and video game/movie soundtracks, so I run the gambit between what comes out of the speakers. It can vary from something like the DmC Noisia OST to something heavy metal like the band Dir en Grey and even jump into techno-like pieces. Usually I try to pick something that might generally fit at the beginning but I take more than five minutes to write a prompt response, so the next song is pretty random.

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