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A route only I know — a ten-minute writing prompt

One route only you know. Where does it start, where does it end?

What a child is asked afterwards

A route only I know

What shortcut or favorite path do you know?

Everyone gets the same subject. What differs is the follow-up: one question for children, two for teens, three for adults. Only the children's wording is simplified.

Where people usually get stuck on this one

When you stall halfway

Explaining is what stalls you. Put down what you saw and what you heard instead.

When it reads flat

Find the sentence you are least sure about. What you actually meant is usually hiding there.

When the first line won't come

Skip it and start at the second. The opening writes itself once the rest exists.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Add one sense

Writing through the body needs no explaining.

Land on the shortest line

A short landing is what stays.

One thing per sentence

Don't staple two ideas together with 'and'.

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