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Just realized I was writing my prompts all wrong for years
Honestly, I was making these super complex, world-building prompts with ten rules each. Then, at a library workshop in Boise, a guy just wrote 'You find a key that opens any door, but you must give up a memory each time' on a notecard. The whole room started writing instantly. That simple idea got more people going than my pages of lore ever did. Tbh, has anyone else switched from detailed to simple prompts and seen better results?
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ross.felix9d ago
Wait, hold on. That key and memory thing sounds cool for a five minute exercise, but it's not a real story. My best writing always comes from deep world building. If you just have a simple prompt, everyone ends up with the same basic story about a sad guy losing his wedding memory. But with my detailed lore about the clockwork city and the guild of locksmiths, you get something truly unique. Simple prompts just make simple stories.
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jadew635d ago
Yeah, I was the same as holly_sanchez75 until that workshop. Now I see a simple prompt gives you the room to build your own clockwork city, doesn't it?
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