When finding a creative writing prompt that appeals to or inspires you, what is the prompt asking you to do in its most basic form?
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For example, below are two of the top-voted prompts from a previous poll. What are these prompts asking the writer to do?

Prompt: Have a character struggling with identity find out that they're not human.

Prompt: Develop a relationship of any kind between a person and an inanimate object.

The point of this poll is to pinpoint the qualities of a writing prompt that induces productive creativity.

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anything can be a prompt. typically 2 or 3 words. a misunderstood phrase, a detail I see no one talks about, a euphemism stuck in my head twisted until you have to work to recognize it. lines of 5 words with 6 or more possible meanings

anything I can do to make both sides of the head process what I've said. I think of it as coming from the right brain, to the left brain where it picks up words and exits out my hand. my objective is to then have it travel to your eyes around to the back of your head and mean the same thing to you as it does to me.