Tried a character's journal entry as a writing prompt and got way different results than I expected

I usually write prompts from a third person perspective, you know, 'a soldier finds a letter' type stuff. Last week I wrote one as a journal entry from a single mom in 1997 describing her day, down to the receipt in her purse. The responses I got were super personal and emotional, like people really connected with the voice. Has anyone else noticed first person prompts hitting harder than the standard ones lol?

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lindaowens13d ago

omg this is so funny because I did something similar with a prompt from a gas station clerk's pov at 3am and people wrote whole novels about their own late night shifts lol. it's wild how a specific voice just unlocks all this emotion in people.