[ SECRET POST #5980 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5980 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 47 secrets from Secret Submission Post #855.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The beast scenario is cute and funny and I can see why people would like it, but... IRL I think if I sat down to write this prompt, it'd feel too limiting. Making it someone's pet locks you in to a specific scenario. If he'd dialed it back a notch and just said that after the beast was dead, everyone noticed a detail that gave them pause and let writers figure out what that detail was and what it meant, that would give people more scope for an imaginative story. IMO.

[(Anonymous)]

It feels more like something that would show up on Bad Two-Sentence Horror than a prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

That's a good way to put it. It feels too complete on its own already to be a proper prompt.

[(Anonymous)]

Right, like…”prompts” don’t need show-offy stylistic repetition, that’s just a very short story.

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. It's not a prompt, it's a whole story on its own. A prompt would be:

The monster terrorizing the town turns out to have a collar and ID tag.

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The beast was dead. The town was saved, until...

[(Anonymous)]

The beast was a plot bunny all along.

[(Anonymous)]

But you can do so much with that prompt alone. I guess I just don't see why it's "bad" so much as "not exactly what I'd write." The point of the prompts, of which there are many, is to work with the framework summary.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't say it's bad, just... limiting? Generally speaking, that prompt is going to yield a bunch of stories about a pet monster. It'd be hard to go in another direction without it being awkward, simply because the prompt itself has established that upfront.