Stumbled into a writing workshop in a tiny bookstore in Vermont last fall

The prompt was just a single word - 'rust' - and I watched ten strangers turn it into ten completely different stories. Has anyone else found a weird prompt that somehow unlocked your best writing?

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emma68421h agoMost Upvoted

Wait, are you serious? You actually had ten strangers all write something that good from just one word? I mean I once did a prompt with "pocket" and two people wrote about lint. Lint. But rust? That's a really good one. It's so specific it forces you to get creative.

the_nathan22h ago

A buddy once got “quicksand” at some writing thing and wrote a horror story about a car.