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[chimney_swipe]

Quick post here as a question to anyone who is reading this:

Are there any good writing prompt communities out there? Or drawing/art prompt communities for that matter.

I realize that I do really well with prompts. It won't often occur to me to write or draw anything out of the blue, but I think it would be cool if I joined a community that provides prompts every so often. I'll keep looking, myself. I feel like it's been hard to find one that isn't fandom specific or just drabble prompts, but I haven't spent that much time looking yet. Just thought I'd ask. :>

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[grinn]

If you find any good ones let me know. They're going to do one on the side7 forums next month but it's all unicorns, haha. I might join in anyway and see how it goes.

[femboy]

Check out fandomweekly. It's a "multifandom weekly fic challenge community where participants write a short story based on a prompt". If you don't want or need the accountability of writing together with others, you can check out dailyprompt and daily_prompt which are both inactive but can still be browsed. I haven't found active communities that aren't restricted to drabbles or aren't long challenges with specific deadlines.

[satismagic]

Not a community, but a method:

1. grab a thesaurus or dictionary, open a random page,
2. close your eyes point somewhere on the page: this is your random word!

Write or art about that word. Or collect several words and use all of them.

(Or use a random word generator to get a random word, like this one: https://wordcounter.net/random-word-generator)

I used to do a lot of drabble writing using that method (true drabbles of exactly 100 words), and it was always inspiring and challenging.