Oh man, the prompt app trap is so real! Back when my oldest was a baby I bought one of those writing prompt books thinking it would get me going, and every prompt felt like it was written by a robot who had never met a human. "A stranger hands you a key" type stuff, just nothing to hold onto. What finally worked for me was the grocery store parking lot, weirdly enough, because I started writing down full bits of talk I'd catch walking to my car, like a guy on his phone saying "no Mom, the raccoon is fine, I checked." That one line turned into a whole story, and I never would have gotten it from an app. Real stuff has grit to it, and the fake prompts just don't, which is why you could churn out six stories from a Walgreens notebook while the $45 app sat there collecting dust. My advice is keep the notebook in your car too, because the best lines hit you when you're stuck at a red light and your brain is bored.

Same here, dark roast saved my cheap beans too.