Pro tip: random words beat a notebook, and it took me 7 tries to see it
I always kept a running list of prompts in a notebook, but last Tuesday at the coffee shop on 5th I switched to pulling 3 random words from a mug and the ideas came way faster. The notebook lists just piled up, but forcing two unrelated words together made my brain do the work instead of waiting. My best one yet came from "ship, mustard, ladder" and I wrote a full page off it. What random word combo has actually worked for you?