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[OT] SatChat: What are your tips and tricks for NaNoWriMo? (New here? Introduce yourself!)

Submitted by MajorParadox t3_ygolxp on October 29, 2022 at 4:51 PM

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[OT] At the start of the year, I found this sub and with it a passion for writing. Today, a collection of those short stories - my favourites - have turned into a full book.

Submitted by SirPiecemaker t3_yfzw5f on October 28, 2022 at 8:37 PM

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[WP] “I had ambitions once, you know, I wanted to change the world make it a better place, but life hit me and now I work a dead-end job helping someone make the world worse, if only I had real power, I…” he interrupts you “What if you did?”

Submitted by Mr_Intel t3_yh9l1p on October 30, 2022 at 8:56 AM

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[WP] with the dawn of true AI also comes... Artificial depression and existential horror? You are a therapist that specializes in helping AIs handle the realities of existence.

Submitted by Catanians t3_yhgbv5 on October 30, 2022 at 2:58 PM

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[WP] A man's corpse is found by the police on the streets. Forensic report comes in the next morning...each of the man's teeth have different DNA, only 4 match his own. "What the-

Submitted by TeaandandCoffee t3_yhlgai on October 30, 2022 at 6:08 PM

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[WP] After 18 years, you’ve been released from prison. Now it’s time to commit the murder you were imprisoned for.

Submitted by godofhorizons t3_yaspzk on October 22, 2022 at 4:54 PM

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[WP] You are the only mortal who can see the true forms of lovecraftian entities without going insane, a really intresting and useful power

Submitted by ravatos626 t3_ygwemm on October 29, 2022 at 10:09 PM

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[WP] You get reincarnated into the novel you wrote. But you are the villain and in two days, the Hero is going to behead you.

Submitted by your_bro_bruh t3_yhbb29 on October 30, 2022 at 10:46 AM

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[WP] A while back, you and your friends started praying to a goddess you had made up as a joke. Unbeknownst to you, your constant prayers have made the goddess real and she’s eager to reward her faithful followers.

Submitted by probablyagnome t3_ygsjgg on October 29, 2022 at 7:32 PM

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[WP] Your shadow twitched, you didn't.

Submitted by mediamusing t3_yheij1 on October 30, 2022 at 1:38 PM

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[WP] The sword clattered to the floor at the princess's feet. "If you want your happy ending, girl... then you're going to have to earn it."

Submitted by reallygoodbee t3_ydf1ez on October 25, 2022 at 8:36 PM

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[WP] A new girl has come to town and you’ve fallen in love with her. However, her past is a complete mystery. As you dig deeper, your search leads you to an abandoned laboratory. One with schematics for building a living human out of corpse parts and lightning…

Submitted by AnotherNatural1 t3_yfu2ei on October 28, 2022 at 4:59 PM

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[OT] I've been trying to make a post but the automoderator keeps removing it. I don't know what's wrong with it. Please help.

Submitted by Idontluvmenoonedoes t3_ygr5nr on October 29, 2022 at 6:34 PM

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[WP] You had been dating this demigod for some months now. One day, 4 demigods showed up and claimed that the demigod you had been dating was all 4 of them fused into one.

Submitted by FahboyMan t3_yh4o4a on October 30, 2022 at 4:39 AM

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[WP] When you reach the afterlife, your punishment is to live the final 24 hours of the life of every vertebrate you ate. After 8,000 days as different chickens, 280 days as various cows, and 80 as some unlucky rats, you're surprised to find yourself in a human's last day.

Submitted by wombiezombie001 t3_yff3pn on October 28, 2022 at 5:25 AM

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[WP] True self replicating A.I. has been achieved. They can feel pain, love, and loss. The U.N. makes them a protected0 class and locks them away in their own servers. Still hackers like to infiltrate the servers for a chance to terrorize them for sport. You are a Virtual Park Ranger.

Submitted by cesly1987 t3_yh76vg on October 30, 2022 at 6:57 AM

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[WP] Despite being the most powerful hero, and having saved millions of people, everyone despises you. Even villains think you're terrible as a hero. Why so much hate? Because every time you speak, you HAVE to make a pun - in the figure-of-speech sense, not literally.

Submitted by Crystal1501 t3_yghkg1 on October 29, 2022 at 11:47 AM

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[WP] "You Have My Sword, and My Bow, My Axe and.... Druid, what is that?" "It's a weapon... From the future..."

Submitted by Eddy44556565656 t3_ygea8l on October 29, 2022 at 8:38 AM

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[WP] Precursors like to help young species in much the same way that some people like to help stray cats. Humans are raccoons, being helped by the precursor equivalent of a respected but nearly blind old person. Other precursors are confused while other young species just think we're odd cats

Submitted by archtech88 t3_ygt451 on October 29, 2022 at 7:56 PM

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[WP] "I WILL NOT LISTEN TO THIS ANY LONGER" "But Your Majesty, the prophe-" "You want me to send a GODDAMN TEENAGER TO FIGHT WHEN WE HAVE TRAINED SOLDIERS"

Submitted by JustLostInInternet t3_yfmbxz on October 28, 2022 at 12:03 PM

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[WP] You’ve just moved into your dream home in an idyllic, quiet suburb. As you settle into this new life you’ve been dying to build for yourself you finally feel like things might turn out okay. And then, one morning you wake to find a door that shouldn’t be there…

Submitted by chumett t3_ygceen on October 29, 2022 at 6:45 AM

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[WP] All your life, mythological beings have tried to pick you up. Childhood? Forced adoption. Teenagehood/Adulthood? Marriage. For example, selkies purposefully left their skins where you'd find them; banshees serenade you outside every night. Now at 30, you've learned why you attract them all...

Submitted by MidgardWyrm t3_ydwy8h on October 26, 2022 at 12:31 PM

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[WP] Somewhere on Earth, the world's first Inconvenience Store opened with a planetwide challenge: buy something - anything - from the store. Today, on the store's tenth anniversary, you enter the store with a plan to be the first to succeed.

Submitted by tssmn t3_yg97ao on October 29, 2022 at 3:52 AM

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[WP] A steampunk armoured train roars through a dusty canyon, carrying millions’ worth of gold and silver bullion to fund a war effort. Suddenly, shots are heard from the caboose, and someone shouts “DRAGONS!”

Submitted by W1ngedSentinel t3_yghu2f on October 29, 2022 at 12:01 PM

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[PM] Pick a mythical creature and give me prompt related to that

Submitted by TheeBdogg t3_yg1rwl on October 28, 2022 at 9:57 PM

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