The Problem With Writing Prompts

Is there a problem with writing prompts?

This is my issue with writing prompts: they tend to lead to isolated stories, stories that are searching for humor, searching to be shared with a group that is perhaps looking for entertainment. They are not, by and large, searching for meaning lost in the morass of your memory, for mythic god who has thwarted you all this time, for the contact lens that is lost in the grasses of your  psyche.

No…

The problem with writing prompts is they lead to stor...