Most of us won’t say it out loud, but we stockpile AI prompts like they’re treasure. We save them in folders. We paste them into docs. We screenshot them. We bookmark them “for later.” And then they mostly sit there. They don’t make us more creative. They don’t make ideas easier. What they mostly do is make us feel like we’re preparing, when in reality, we’re just avoiding the hard part. Let’s talk about why. 1. We save prompts because blank pages feel uncomfortable The blank page forces us to think. It makes us confront what we want, what matters, and what “good” even means. That’s awkward. It feels exposing. A prompt steps in like a safety net. Someone else already structured it. Someone else already thought it through. That feels nicer. But every time we dodge the blank page, we lose a chance to build creative confidence. We get faster at avoiding discomfort instead of getting better at working through it. Over time, we start believing we “need” prompts just to begin. That isn’t creativity.…