Procedurally generated Oblique Strategies for writing your own Oblique Strategies.

See https://subconscious.substack.com/p/prompt-generator.

Close your eyes.
Take a deep breath.
Ready?

Run the script.

Now, receive the prompt and ask yourself... in what ways might I expand it? Try rewriting it into a tweet-sized provocation.

• What does it remind you of? Try mixing that into the prompt.
• What examples, anecdotes can you include?
• Can you expand on the prompt with a "why" explanation?

Requirements: Python 3.7, Pip, .

To clone the repository and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/gordonbrander/prompt_generator.git
cd prompt_generator
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

From the prompt_generator directory:

./runtracery.py grammars/prompt.json

Or alternatively:

python3 ./runtracery.py ./grammars/prompt.json

This will print a prompt on the console, such as...

A either/or prompt to make an analogy to another field (religion, space, music)