Blew $60 on a fiction writing prompt deck from Etsy that just gives me plot holes

It came with 200 cards but half of them suggest characters with impossible motivations like a vampire who runs a vegan bakery and the love interest is a sunbeam and I swear the person who made it never actually finished a story themselves, has anyone else found a prompt deck that actually keeps a plot consistent?

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eva_hayes14d ago

Oh man, a vampire running a vegan bakery that's kind of funny though, not gonna lie. But a sunbeam as a love interest that's just lazy writing, that's not a plot hole that's a whole plot crater. I mean were you really expecting coherent worldbuilding from a deck of cards someone probably made in their dorm room? If the prompt says the sunbeam is allergic to moonlight I'd say you got your money's worth in pure absurdity.

hugo_coleman2814d ago

Dude that reminds me of a card game my cousin made in high school where every card had a different rule depending on what phase the moon was in. He spent like three hours explaining it and we still couldn't figure out how to play. Like half the cards were just "the sunbeam is now a cloud" or something random. I think people forget that these things are meant to be funny not consistent. You just gotta roll with the nonsense and see where it goes.