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What a single coin can buy — a ten-minute writing prompt

Something you did with almost no money that you still remember.

What a child is asked afterwards

What a single coin can buy

If you had one coin, what would you do with it? Write why.

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 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.

When it all sounds obvious

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

Today's constraints on this prompt

Put in one thing that happened to you

One thing from your own life turns borrowed words into your piece.

Decide the title first

Set the title first and the piece stops wandering.

Save your best line for last

The last line is the one that stays.

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