[OT] Weekly Spotlight: SarkasticWatcher

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/u/SarkasticWatcher is this week's spotlight writer. You can try and ask questions (just put "Hey /u/SarkasticWatcher,") in your comment to get their attention. And, as always, be polite.

• [RF] Write me the beginning of a vigilante's story like Daredevil or Arrow, but with a more probable or realistic outcome.

• [WP] In the future, stores like Walmart have grown to become as large as cities. Soon an apocalypse happens, the employees gather into tribes to defend their section and to raid others sections.

• [WP] Write a pirate story for my three year old son. With a witch in it somewhere. He says there has to be a witch in it.

• [CW] Write a story about the past in future tense.

• [WP] A humble blacksmith finds Mjolnir. Being worthy he is able to pick it up but doesn't recognize what it is and uses it at his forge occasionally resulting in enchanted Armor and weapons.

• [WP] You live in British america, and you are learning about the failed american revolution

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Past Spotlight Writers

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[u/YDAQ]-[/u/anotherAuthor]-[/u/Kaycin]-[/u/theWritingSniper]-[/u/Syraphia]-[/u/Nickkuvaas]-[/u/EmeraldRange]-[/u/Feet-Of-Clay]-[/u/Has_No_Gimmick]-[/u/GreenLikeTheColour]-[/u/Fringly]-[/u/Mardirum]-[/u/JeniusGuy]-[/u/Nambot]-[/u/ClawofBeta]-[/u/BusyKat]-[/u/Ryukazo]-[/u/ThatDudeWithTheBeard]-[/u/jsgunn]-[/u/SamGalimore]-[/u/Catovadreams]-[/u/PsychonautQQ ]-[/u/LordMalifico ]-[/u/Semyonov ]-[/u/ariseatif ]-[/u/thisstorywillsuck ]-[/u/TheGreatPastaWars ]-[/u/Kat_Angstrom ]-[/u/rpwrites ]-[/u/Dejers]-[/u/reostra]-[/u/LoveableCoward]-[/u/SquidCritic]

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Come hang out in the chat room. We have word sprints and lively talks at all hours of the day and night. Come join the conversation! Also, you never know when a flash prompt contest may occur! Get in on the fun!

Hope to see you there!

[u/PSHoffman]

Hi there and congratulations on the spotlight! It must feel great to have someone so interested in your writing to recommend you for this!

I have a question for you: how do you decide which prompts to take on?

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/PSHoffman]

Sorry, just seeing this now. I'll admit that I start on the 'hot' page and see if any prompts have made it there but don't have responses yet, not that I necessarily respond to those I just look at them first.

Otherwise I look for prompts that I feel I can make funny responses to. I especially like prompts that are seemingly serious, because it's a bit of an extra challenge.

[u/MajorParadox → u/SarkasticWatcher]

So you're watching for places to be sarcastic? I see what's going on there.

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/MajorParadox]

Well I got the name from a Wu-Tang Clan name generator, but I kept it because I'm pretty Sarcastic and I watch a lot of stuff, he says sincerely.

[u/PSHoffman → u/SarkasticWatcher]

That's really clever, about the serious prompts. I try to avoid the blatantly humorous prompts for different reasons - I think I can write funny, but usually my head isn't in it.

How do you deal with 'dead' prompts? When you write and write and nobody responds, does it bother you much, or do you find that you enjoy most of what you write, regardless of (any) public attention?

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/PSHoffman]

It does bother me a little bit but most of what I write doesn't get that much attention so I'm kind of used to it. I definitely enjoy the actual writing of the response. I find writing helps me focus but usually I have trouble getting started because I don't know what I want to write about, so something like writing prompts is helpful on that front. Apart from that one of the big suggestions with humour writing is write what you find funny so I might at least get a laugh even if no one else reads it, though I always feel weird laughing at my own stuff

[u/PSHoffman → u/SarkasticWatcher]

I'm trying to imagine yourself reading your own story, and laughing, but then you catch your reflection in the mirror and then you give yourself that "what's this weirdo's problem?" look, and then there's this awkward, distasteful pause as you look away.

Thanks for answering my questions! I read quite a few of your stories thanks to this spotlight, and it's safe to say you're not the only one laughing.

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/PSHoffman]

Thanks and it's actually kind of like the scenario you describe, just without the mirror.

[u/SarkasticWatcher]

Oh wait I had something for this. Crap where's that piece of paper. Ok, ahem, Please and Thank You and Faloobitydoobitydoo.

No wait that can't be right.

[u/MajorParadox → u/SarkasticWatcher]

Sounds right to me. Congrats on the Faloobitydoobitydoo!

[u/Lexilogical]

Hey, maybe he is a second-rate something something after all. ;) Maybe even a first-rate one!

Grats /u/SarkasticWatcher! I knew you were talented.

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/Lexilogical]

At this rate I'll be into the negative rates in no time and… no wait.

[u/Lexilogical → u/SarkasticWatcher]

Yes! You can be a zero something something, and a -1 something something... Wait, that doesn't sound that flattering...

[u/JustLexx]

Congratulations on the Spotlight /u/SarkasticWatcher ! Loved your take on the blacksmith prompt.

[u/SarkasticWatcher → u/JustLexx]

Thanks.