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Why does nobody warn you that writing prompt books are just 500 ways to say 'describe a memory'?
Dropped $24 on a '1000 prompts' ebook in January and by prompt 40 realized it was the same 12 ideas shuffled with different nouns. Returned it and put that money toward a $3 notebook where my own boring Tuesday walks gave me better stuff. Anyone got a prompt source that isn't just recycled journaling questions?
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samrodriguez2d ago
Did you see that post going around about how most prompt books are written by people who just scrape Reddit threads and reword them? I read a blog from a guy who reverse engineered one of those $30 "500 prompts" PDFs and found like 80 percent came from the same five subreddits. That tracks with what you're saying about the same 12 ideas with new nouns. The ones that actually work for me are weirdly specific, like "write about a smell that reminds you of a person you don't talk to anymore" instead of the vague memory stuff.
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