A bait list is a list of things someone is interested in creating. It is a cheat sheet to a writer's Achilles' heel, the window to their soul.

Content creators, confess your brainrot habits and the media that has you in its clutches.

Need ideas?

• Genres - high school meet cute? supernatural investigators? pacific rim?
• Dynamics - casual intimacy? enemies to lovers? love triangles
• Media - Han Kang, Formula 1, Sabrina Carpenter lyrics, Arcane Season 2
• (Check out the 2023 bait list and the 2021 bingo post).

Like the bait on a fishing hook, these are the things to prompt if you want to catch a writer. Except in 17hols the fish gives you the bait and teaches you how to fish.

A bait list is a list of things someone is interested in creating. Wanting to prompt? Have a look here for some inspiration.

Content creators, its time to confess.

Need ideas?

• Genres - magical realism? sports anime? mafia?
• Dynamics - casual intimacy? unrequited love? professional enemies to lovers?
• People - yes I mean biases, also calling out everyone who listened to Midnights (4am version)
• Narrative Tropes - hero's journey? man vs nature? (Woozi vs Hoshi)
• Other media - bleak boyband bingo, chainsaw man, formula 1
• (Check out the 2022 bait list and the 2021 bingo post).