Dropped $80 on a writing prompt generator app and it gave me nothing but garbage about wizards

I figured it would help me break out of a slump but every prompt was basically 'a wizard finds a magic thing' with no twist or depth. Has anyone found a paid tool that actually gives you prompts that are weird and specific instead of generic fantasy stuff?

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willow4072mo ago

Heard a writer friend say those big prompt tools just scrape bad fanfic archives with wizards.

alexw752mo ago

Oh yeah, I saw some tech guy on YouTube breaking this down. Said a lot of those tools are basically trained on AO3 and random wiki dumps, not exactly Pulitzer material.

garcia.laura1mo ago

Used to be a sucker for those tools, thought they'd spark something but nah, they just vomit out the same recycled fantasy tropes. Actually saw that same video alexw75 mentioned and it clicked for me, those scraped archives explain why every prompt is basically 'wizard meets enchanted object' over and over. Makes me wish I'd just browsed random reddit threads instead of lighting cash on fire.