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The writing prompt app that kept rejecting my best ideas
I spent a week building out a story about a town where everyone forgets their dreams at dawn. The prompt generator I was using kept flagging it as 'too vague' and offered me topics about superheroes or vampires instead. So I deleted the app and went back to a paper notebook, which worked fine for me in 2019. Last Tuesday I wrote three prompts by hand in under an hour, and one of them got my best response yet on this forum. Anyone else find that these so-called smart tools just push you toward the same boring ideas everyone else is doing?
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ward.fiona22d ago
My notebook from 2019 is held together with a rubber band and coffee stains, and it still beats every app I've tried. The last one I used gave me "a wizard discovers a door" three days in a row, like it was stuck on repeat. I write down maybe two lines by hand and somehow get more out of that than ten pages of their vampire junk.
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