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miles_hall
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1d ago
My prompt about a lighthouse keeper turned into 9 pages of backstory and zero story
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tessa_murray
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1d ago
My writing group told me my prompts were too open, so I tried adding one small rule
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the_taylor
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2d ago
PSA: my 30 day prompt journal fell apart on day 12 because I kept picking prompts I already knew how to answer
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kim.jake
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2d ago
Pro tip: thought the "one word per day" writing prompt was lazy, tried it for 30 days anyway
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seth_singh20
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2d ago
Unpopular opinion: those $15 prompt card decks are a scam and I lost $45 finding out
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margareto26
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2d ago
Found out a grocery list can work as a prompt generator and my writer's block broke in 10 minutes
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ruby_henderson36
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3d ago
A librarian in Tulsa handed me a shoebox of index cards in 2011 and it fixed how I outline stories
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the_anthony
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3d ago
Heard a guy at a Denver coffee shop say prompts are cheating, and I've been chewing on it for 3 days
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betty_wells
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3d ago
I thought writing prompts were a total waste of time until a 10 minute timer proved me wrong
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danielnelson
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5d ago
A lit mag in Portland rejected my flash piece in 11 hours, and the editor's note said they read over 2,000 subs a month
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sandra_bennett59
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9d ago
I stopped asking for one big writing prompt and started stacking 3 small ones instead
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laura_schmidt82
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10d ago
Hot take: most people writing prompts are really just writing to-do lists and calling it a story
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miles_burns
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11d ago
Pro tip: my writing teacher told me to stop outlining short stories and just write the ending first, and I still can't decide if she was right
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danielnelson
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11d ago
I sat in on a stranger's writing group in Des Moines last month and it broke my 3-year habit of only writing prompts I could finish in one sitting
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kimr74
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13d ago
Sat through a 2 hour webinar on Tuesday and learned my prompts have been way too nice to my characters
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