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Heard a writer at a coffee shop say her best ideas come from rewriting old prompts
I was eavesdropping at a cafe in Portland last Tuesday, and this author mentioned she takes prompts from 3 years ago and twists them into new stories. Has anyone else tried updating old prompts instead of hunting for fresh ones?
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the_lucas4d agoMost Upvoted
Wait, you mean I could just dig up all those terrible half-started stories from 2019 instead of staring at a blank screen for three hours like a normal person? That sounds way too productive, almost like admitting your past self had a few decent ideas buried under all that cringe. Guess I'll have to try it so I can finally finish a story about a vampire barista, just updated for 2025 where he's probably unionizing.
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robin8963d ago
Watching people recycle old drafts is like seeing someone dig through their closet and find a shirt that actually fits now. Everything cycles back around, even our cringey ideas from half a decade ago. That vampire barista unionizing feels like the logical endpoint of all that 2020s retail burnout anyway.
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