Over the years, I have thought about using blogging prompts to suggest things to write about. There are almost endless lists and tools out there with an increasing number of ChatGPT generated ideas. Lili has started using the inktober prompts which made me consider this whole idea again.
I've had an app version of Oblique Strategies 1 installed on my phone for a while but never used it for anything. Maybe this could be a point of reference when I'm stuck and need a nudge. I opened it and 'pulled' "You don't have to be ashamed of using your own ideas" – how ironic.
I'm not sure I could follow prompts every day (I don't think my brain would let me work like that) but seeking an occasional prompt when devoid of ideas could be a worthwhile experiment.
Isn't the internet as a whole (and more specifically the subset served up to /reader) a prompt engine? Why not just write about what I read? I could, and do, but that suffers from the paradox of choice. A blogging prompt is singular, specific: write about this! Of course, there's nothing to say you have to or how you incorporate that prompt. It's just a pointer in a different direction.
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the creative card based prompt system devised by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in 1975 ↩