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The sounds of my home — a ten-minute writing prompt

Close your eyes, picture your home, and write the sounds in order.

What a child is asked afterwards

The sounds of my home

What sounds does your home make? Write them as you hear them.

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 it all sounds obvious

Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.

When you have too much to say

Pick one. A single idea taken all the way beats ten touched lightly.

When excuses keep creeping in

Cut every “well, but”. The sentence stands up straight without them.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Don't name the feeling

Instead of 'I was sad', write what your body did.

Write what could be seen

Write the visible, not the felt, and the reader stands there with you.

Start with a question

Open with a question and the reader keeps going to find the answer.

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