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The first huge thing I saw — a ten-minute writing prompt

Something that was huge the first time. Write it from your height then.

What a child is asked afterwards

The first huge thing I saw

What looked really big the first time you saw 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 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

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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