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How I start a day — a ten-minute writing prompt

One thing you must do in the morning — and what happens if you skip it.

What a child is asked afterwards

How I start a day

What's the first thing you do in the morning? Write it.

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 nothing comes to mind

Write down one thing that happened recently. It does not have to be a good story.

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.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Only words a child knows

One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.

Always say who did it

Not 'it was decided' but 'I decided'. Leave out the doer and the writing hides.

Add one sense

Writing through the body needs no explaining.

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