>>78571332As someone who considers themselves a "prompt hunter," what I consider an interesting prompt is one that's a bit out of the box and has a clear throughline. Most prompts to me suffer from being a decent idea but no room for plot. Or rather, it's a question of "where does this go?" that often comes up blank. "Cooking dinner for Suisei" to me is more interesting than say, "Suiseiggs" (Nothing wrong with Suiseiggs though). Also, having a specific chuuba helps because there are a lot of chuubas I want to write about but don't have a specific idea for them. I wrote A Cursed Dagger precisely because it was an Anya prompt. I wish I could give a better answer than that but looking at all the fics I did that were prompts, there isn't a real commonality. I just thought they were neat or offered me an avenue to either challenge myself or experiment.
As for details, the answer is somewhere in the middle. Too vague and generic that *any* chuuba will do and I ignore it. Perhaps paradoxically, something that is a grand idea but otherwise "vacant" like the Battle Royale/Three Kingdoms -esq prompt we got last thread, is also a no-go for me. It's too much work to put simply. It's not just the characters that I would have to decide on but the plot, themes, etc, and at that point, I would rather just work on something of my own.
I want to use Horror Intolerance and There Are Days That Last Forever as examples of two prompts that were given a lot of detail. The requester for HI had a clear idea of what they wanted and even gave scene ideas, yet were willing to let me do what I thought was best. I genuinely think that was the best prompt I have taken on because of that fact so if there's a fic you really want to see, follow that example.
As for TADTLF, that was a challenging fic to write in part because I had very specific beats I had to hit. This isn't a criticism, I took on that prompt precisely because of that, but I feel like it's worth mentioning that outlines may not be attractive to the average writer.
Discussion of a prompt can make said prompt more attractive, There are a lot of good greentext compilations of people spitballing that can serve as a jumping-off point but that requires both genuine good faith discussion and not being derailed instantly by our various fetish factions.
Idk does any of this rambling make sense? I should be in bed.
