Paid $60 for a beat up library card catalog at a garage sale near Portland... best money I ever spent on writing prompts

Got this old wooden card catalog from a retired librarian for $60. It has 15 drawers, each filled with blank index cards that I repurposed. Now when I'm stuck on a story, I pick a random drawer, pull a card, and write a prompt based on the first word I see. It's been 8 months and I've filled 3 notebooks with sketches and ideas. Way more fun than staring at a blank screen. Anyone else use weird physical objects to kickstart their writing?

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paulw6314d ago

Ha, that's way fancier than my method of just yelling at a blank page until something falls out.

chen.fiona14d ago

My roommate uses a vintage typewriter she got at a thrift store for $20. She types out random sentences and cuts them up to rearrange into poems. It's messy but it really shakes up her writing flow.