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What everyone hates but I like — a ten-minute writing prompt

Something people dislike that you like. Write when that started.

What a child is asked afterwards

What everyone hates but I like

What do your friends hate but you like, and 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

No 'very', 'really', 'so'

These words look like force. They take it away.

Finish in 6 sentences

Stopping early is the hardest and the most readable.

Only words a child knows

One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.

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