DailyPrompt Deviousness · 6 June 2026
It seems devious to me that DailyPrompt gets daily prompts from their users by having competitions for daily prompts.
Okay. Devious is definitely an overstatement, but the ploy is very clever. Think about it. You have all these writers out there who are submitting pieces to DailyPrompt. They want to win competitions. They like different prompts for different genres. For prose. For poetry. So why not give those writers prompts from their peers? It is very clever.
Oh sure, they give out prizes, but think about all the prompts they get for so few dollars. (Although I am not sure how they make their money for prizes. In fact, I am baffled by their business plan. Not that I know their business plan, but they obviously get their money from somewhere.)
At any rate.
I think it is a brilliant idea to get the very prompts they use on their site from the people who are members of their site. Simply brilliant.
I, for one, like to submit entries to each competition. Every single one. I do not think I have missed one since I subscribed. Which is actually the reason I subscribed. (And no. I do not get anything from DailyPrompt if you subscribe. But I should. I promote them enough.)
At any rate.
I subscribed to DailyPrompt.com for the possibility of winning back my subscription cost. All I needed to do was win a competition or two and I would pay for my lifetime subscription. (Did I mention that I have no idea what their business plan is?) And I did. I won early! But alas, not often. In fact, I have only won one time. Which is okay. I won my subscription cost back. Which is all I really wanted to do. That and write pieces that fit a bunch of different prompts.
Needless to say, I enjoy writing. And whether I am writing for myself and my readers or writing for a daily prompt, I just keep on writing. And I will keep doing so for as long as my mind and body are around. Whether anybody else reads what I am doing or not. Whether anybody else likes what I am doing or not.
Well, I know this is a short post, but it says what I wanted to say. And I am not one to keep writing to add fluff to a piece just because I did not meet my word count quota. Which, by the way, I do not have. A quota, that is.
So devious or not, I think it is great that DailyPrompt uses competitions to get more daily prompts.
© 2026 Michael T. Miyoshi
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