Found a writing prompt from 3 years ago that finally clicked last night

I was digging through my old Google Drive folders last week and stumbled on a prompt I'd written back in 2021. It was about a guy who finds a locked room in his childhood home after his parents pass away. Back then I couldn't get past the first paragraph, everything felt flat and forced. But last night I was laying in bed thinking about my own grandparents' house in Lake Charles, Louisiana and that creaky closet door my cousin and I were always scared to open. Suddenly the whole scene poured out of me in about 25 minutes, all the sensory stuff like the rusty doorknob and the smell of mothballs. Has anyone else had an old prompt suddenly work for them years later? What made it click for you?

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pipergonzalez19d ago

Nah, if something didn't work before it's probably just not a good idea.

taylor_barnes5919d ago

People give up on things way too fast these days, everything's supposed to be instant gratification lol. Sometimes you just gotta tweak the approach and try again.