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Just realized I was wrong about those random writing generators
I used to think writing prompt generators were total garbage (like, a waste of 5 minutes of your life). Then I tried one from the NYC Midnight website before a competition last year, and it gave me a combo of "a locked room" and "a broken watch" that actually sparked my best short story. Still skeptical of most free ones though. Has anyone else found a specific generator that changed their mind?
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jennifer20415d ago
Set up my own free generator with a fixed list of mundane objects like staplers and traffic cones, wrote a bizarre little piece about a stapler that could smell fear. Got a short story published from it somehow. Won't go back to those flashy ones with weird fantasy combos, they always make me write about sentient pants.
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seanjackson15d ago
Right there with you @jennifer204. There's something about making your own weird little system that just clicks better than the big shiny things. Sentient pants got nothing on a stapler with fear senses.
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