I like both to be honest. If I'm really stuck on ideas or just want to try something new I'll get ideas from prompts and other times I'll come up with my own plot and write from there. Just depends on my mood when I'm writing I guess.
wildlife. wrote:also, i was wondering how you guys came up with names? be it for your character or a place. do you guys look for meanings behing those names? or just whatever sounds good?
It comes 50/50 where sometimes I'll already know what I want to name my characters and other times I'll go looking for names. As for places I'll normally make that up so that it's more my own.