#to attract folks who like reading shortfic prompt fills

[not-poignant]

Would you ever accept prompts and post the results on tumblr or ao3? Obviously you wouldn't have to accept all prompts, only the ones you liked. I'm just thinking it might help new people find your writing because prompts do pretty well on tumblr.

Hi anon,

Would you ever accept prompts and post the results on tumblr or ao3?

Nope.

I opened for prompts a couple of times about 8 years ago and I learned a few things. The first thing is I don't like writing shortfics and flashfics. The second is that I don't like most of the prompts I get. The third is that it didn't actually bring just about any new people over lmao (the people who do best with prompts are people who do prompts regularly, become known for it, and build a lot of their Tumblr presence on prompts, I can't think of anything worse personally), but also, I don't really want to bring people over who want prompt responses or want to follow a 'prompt response blog', because that's not my focus.

But mostly, I don't do it anymore for two big reasons:

My writing budget re: wordcount is actually planned out for the next 12 months, and I do not have an excess of words to spare. Prompts are great for people who need ideas. This is not a problem I have.

I don't like doing them.

The second is really the only reason anyone ever needs. There's a reason I never opened for prompts again, and why I always say no when folks ask, and 'people might like your Tumblr more' is really not a selling point, because I do not want to be a 'prompt blog' for folks who mostly just want to read prompt fills anyway.