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Why does convenience make us freer? — a ten-minute writing prompt

Put the moment convenience gave you time next to the moment it decided for you.

What a child is asked afterwards

Why does convenience make us freer?

What makes your life easy? What would happen without 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 sentences run long

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

When you can't be honest

Write as if no one will read it. You can choose what to show after you finish.

When nothing comes to mind

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

Today's constraints on this prompt

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.

Give one example

'Last Tuesday' always beats 'sometimes'.

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