Blew $60 on a story prompt deck from a Portland shop, and the blank index cards in my junk drawer do the same job

Nathan Kim · 2026-10-09T05:20:04.597277+00:00

I grabbed this deck at Powell's back in April because the cards looked nice and the box said 52 ways to start a scene. Turns out half of them are stuff like write about a door, which I could have come up with on my own for free. The one thing that saved the purchase is that I started pairing two cards at a time and got way more use out of them that way. What cheap or free prompt source do you keep coming back to when the well runs dry?

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Blew $60 on a story prompt deck from a Portland shop, and the blank index cards in my junk drawer do the same job | Creative Writing Prompts - Vivisector