I was sure generic prompts were lazy, then one line about a missed bus took me 3 weeks to finish

Leo Hall · 2026-09-29T09:45:04.295589+00:00

I used to skip any prompt that wasn't super specific because I thought vague ones just gave you nothing to grab onto, but a plain prompt about a character missing their bus in the rain got me stuck rewriting the ending for almost 3 weeks straight. Turns out the empty space was the whole point, I had to build the reason she was running myself, and that reason ended up being the actual story. Anyone else have a prompt that looked boring on paper but turned into a whole thing?

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