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My writing group split over whether prompts should come with word counts, and I think the side I took is losing
Honestly last Tuesday at our library meetup in Boise, one of the regulars, Dana, said she deletes any prompt that comes with a word count attached because it kills the scene before she starts. Tbh I get it, a 500 word cap on a prompt about a funeral feels like someone telling you when to stop crying. But our other guy Marcus said without a limit he just rambles for 2,000 words and never finishes anything, and he's got a point too since half our group never posts because they freeze up. I said maybe it depends on the prompt itself, like a flash fiction one needs a cap and an open scene one does not. Ngl though I keep flip flopping because I finished more prompts in the month we had limits than the whole year before. So which side are you on, do you want your prompts bare or boxed in?
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miaharris15d ago
My buddy in a Spokane group started slapping soft caps like "aim for 800" on her prompts and the freeze-up people actually started posting, while the wordy ones just ignored it. Maybe limits work better when they're a nudge and not a rule.
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