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Heads up about that writing prompt generator site I found
I clicked on this creative writing prompt generator last week, the one everyone keeps sharing on here. At first glance it looked fine, gave me a prompt about a missing key in a library. But after I used it for three days straight, every single prompt started having the same weird twist involving a locked room and a clock. I went back and checked the first ten prompts I saved and sure enough, five of them had that exact setup. Has anyone else noticed this thing is basically just shuffling the same three elements around?
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jake_walker1mo ago
Pretty sure that pocket watch prompt was one of the recycled ones since the clock and a time based twist is the same locked room trick just dressed up different.
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I got 14 prompts out of that thing before I stopped counting, and honestly I liked the locked room clock stuff. The one about a librarian who found a pocket watch that only worked at midnight gave me a whole short story idea I actually finished. Maybe you just got unlucky or the generator has a favorite batch it cycles through. I stuck with it and got some solid stuff that didnt feel recycled at all.
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