Hit prompt #500 last Tuesday and now I cannot decide if saving them all is smart or just hoarding

Simon Carr · 2026-09-11T08:35:05.378771+00:00

I started writing one prompt a day in a beat up notebook back in January 2023, and last Tuesday I wrote number 500 while sitting at a diner in Akron waiting on a burger. Half of me says I should burn the notebook because reading old prompts just makes me rewrite them instead of starting new stuff, but the other half thinks those 500 lines are the only reason I finally finished 12 short stories this year. Do you keep every prompt you write or do you toss the bad ones and only save the winners?

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