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Just realized my prompt notebook from 2019 has 60 half ideas and the one I use now has 8 keepers
Back then I wrote long setups trying to explain the whole world first, and now I start with one line of dialog or a weird object on a table and let the scene do the work. Did switching to shorter prompts actually help anyone else finish drafts, or did it just make the blank page scarier?
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the_lucas11d ago
Same thing happened with how I cook. Used to plan these big meals with fifteen steps and a shopping list, and half the time I'd order pizza instead. Now I just pick one thing in the fridge and build around it, and dinner actually happens. Shorter prompts feel like that, less to hold in your head so you can just start. The blank page is only scary when you think you have to fill the whole world in first. Give yourself one weird object on a table and the scene has somewhere to go.
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