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The anger I never said out loud — a ten-minute writing prompt

One moment you swallowed instead of speaking. Write what you wanted to say.

What a child is asked afterwards

The anger I never said out loud

What did you want to say when you were angry but stayed quiet?

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 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.

When sentences run long

Cut at the conjunction. Where “and” or “so” appears, a period belongs.

Today's constraints on this prompt

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.

Add one line for the other side

One line against your own view makes the whole piece stronger.

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