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Showerthought: I finally hit 30 days of daily writing after switching from random prompts to a single theme

I was using a different random prompt generator every day, but my stories felt all over the place. Last month I decided to stick with one theme, 'a detective agency run by ghosts in Savannah', and just write a new scene for it daily. Having that single world to build on made it way easier to keep momentum and actually finish a full story outline. Anyone else find that focusing on one big idea beats jumping between random prompts?
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the_anthony
Honestly, random prompts keep my brain from getting bored.
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blair_dixon
blair_dixon25d agoTop Commenter
Consider how you pick the scenes you write each day. Do you just follow the plot or do you plan them out to build the world more?
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haydenbutler
Hell yeah, that's the trick. Sticking to one world makes all the difference, you stop wasting energy on new setups every day.
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