[ WP ] The main character , tired of the multitude of meta-prompts on this sub , attempts to convince his/her writer to NOT answer this prompt .

> [ WP ] The main character, tired of the multitude of meta-prompts on this sub, attempts to convince his/her writer to NOT answer this prompt. 
 
 Honestly, David? Is this what you're stooping to? Look at it. /u/Future-Starter's clearly pandering to you -- baiting you into writing a hideous abomination of self-referencing, self-reference-referencing blather. And the sad part is, you're going along with it. Really, now, I thought you were better than this. 
 
 The truth is that there are plenty of other prompts that are more deserving of your attention than this. How about this one? `` [ A world where eating people is perfectly normal and legal, but eating animals is the most vile and disgusting and illegal thing a person could do. ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20tou7/wp_a_world_where_eating_people_is_perfectly/ )'' In fact, you already have a character that could work well here, and you've never had the opportunity to use her before. Remember the blonde, bespectacled, necrophilic coroner that you came up with nearly a year ago? You could hint at her proclivities by stating that she `` likes to play with her food.'' Hmm, what was her name? 
 
 Maybe this could do? A phrase prompt: [ `` At my third birthday party the cake only had two candles. `` ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20u9sx/wp_at_my_third_birthday_party_the_cake_only_had/ ) You could easily write some sort of changeling story, of a fantasy or a sci-fi bent. You could do a story about a time-distorted world, where the protagonist ages normally but celebrates his birthdays out of order for some reason. This prompt has plenty of possibilities to it that /u/Future-Starter's little meta-prompt does not. 
 
 Oh! I just saw a *really* good one! Another phrase prompt: [ `` Can I buy just one bullet? `` ] ( http: //www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/20rudv/wp_can_i_buy_just_one_bullet/ ) Is it a suicide? A murder? A frame-up, perhaps? Aha! Maybe the protagonist is searching for a *specific* bullet! Her partner shot her with a real bullet as part of a ruse that threatened, but ultimately saved, her life, at the price of her partner's! She lives in a society where bullets removed from bodies are resold and melted down as scrap metal, and she wants to buy the bullet that was removed from her body, to keep it as a memento of her partner's life! 
 
 Well, yes, Cobbie, I'll admit that that's a bit far-fetched, but so many great stories are! Take a risk! Crawl out of your tiny little shell! Do anything *other* than reply to /u/Future-Starter's prompt! Click `` close'', click `` back'', and find a better prompt so that the future can start with *you! * 
 
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 Well, fine. I tried to warn you.
