Writing Prompts

From an AskLemmy question by @SVcross@lemmy.world

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From an AskLemmy post [link here] by @TehBamski@lemmy.world

Posted September 21st, 2018 on blog.reedsy.com

Another prompt from the reedsy list. From September 21st, 2018.

From blog.reedsy.com, September 21st, 2018.

One of the prompts on this list here is

"Describe an everyday item as if it's magic."

is vaguely similar to my cyberpunk prompt.

Which makes me feel like I'm kinda reinventing the wheel here.

Plus, the lists I am talking about are enormous! It would take years for us to run out of prompts from them. Definitely a good way to keep the community's pulse going until the prompt posting process starts to happen more organically.

• 100 Creative Writing Prompts for Writers - Writer's Digest
• reedsyprompt's weekly writing prompts (1800+ prompts available!)

I'll be sure to hyperlink the source of the prompt in the body, (or in the case of reedsy, possibly the URL field.)

So what do you say? Shall we borrow prompts until we've gathered some steam?

Example:

Darren operated the mouse and keyboard, aware of them only as mundane extensions of himself, told his computer's web browser to establish a connection with the address called "Amazon." As if an online "marketplace" (powered by an ever evolving, manipulative artificial intelligence) bore any resemblance to the wilderness that used to cover the earth.

Especially when said stretch of wilderness was already a fraction of itself, eaten up for strip farming or land speculation by dozens of corporations driven by the same profit-seeking mindset that motivated Amazon itself: infinite growth.

Millions of microscopic lights flashed to show images of "products you might be interested in." Darren, like any other person, had to constantly relearn how to push past and ignore the suggestions. A subtle arms race between humans and the AI built by the rich to control the poor.