After my last writing session, I'm convinced romance prompts need a reboot.

My writing group used a classic 'meet-cute' prompt, and everyone's stories were identical. It seems like these prompts just recycle old tropes without pushing real creativity. How do you break free from prompt clichés?

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fionah6254m ago

Totally get that, prompts are like training wheels lol. The problem is they give you the whole situation instead of just a spark. Next time, take that meet-cute and break one part of it. Make the location awful, or one person secretly hate the other. The cliche is just the starting point, you gotta mess it up to make it interesting. I force myself to change two big things about any prompt before I even start writing.