the_wade•10d agoProlific Poster

Shoutout to the guy who told me to stop starting prompts with 'A man wakes up'

I was stuck in a rut for like 6 months. Every prompt I wrote started with someone waking up. This dude in a critique group said 'just skip the alarm clock, start when the weird stuff happens.' Tried it on a prompt about a library where books rewrite themselves. It went from 3 likes to 15 and got my first real comment chain. Anyone else get one piece of advice that broke their whole bad habit?

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nina_butler10d ago

Gotta ask though, did you change the opening or the whole story structure? Six months is a long time to be stuck, so I'm curious if you had to trash a lot of old drafts or just kept the good parts.

the_stella10d agoMost Upvoted

Trash it all and start fresh.