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Just spent 6 hours on a 200 word writing prompt
I found a prompt on here that said 'write from the perspective of a dust bunny under a bed' and thought it would be a quick 20 minute thing. But I got stuck trying to figure out how a dust bunny would perceive time and movement, and before I knew it I was reading articles about dust composition at 2 AM. Six hours later I had 200 words about lint and a headache. Has anyone else fallen into a weird research rabbit hole from a simple prompt?
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adamcoleman7d ago
Honestly I gotta push back a little here. Six hours for 200 words sounds like you got lost in the weeds instead of actually writing. The whole point of a writing prompt is to flex your creativity, not to fact-check the exact density of lint.
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jackson.wesley6d ago
Ha, yeah, I've absolutely been there. Totally lost the plot on a simple prompt.
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