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I wrote one prompt a day for 30 days and the weird ones got the best stories
I gave myself one rule back in April: write a prompt every morning before work, no skipping. Day 19 was "a person who apologizes to furniture" and that one turned into 2,000 words in a single sitting, way more than anything I got from the "deep" prompts about loss and memory. The whole batch is sitting in a Google doc and I still go back to the furniture one first. What's the weirdest prompt that ever got you writing for real?
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spencer_chen63d ago
The furniture apology thing is so real, my dumbest one was "a guy who's mildly annoyed at clouds" and I cranked out like 1500 words without even trying. The heavy prompts always make me freeze up but give me something stupid and my brain just goes.
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