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We praise being yourself, then flinch — a ten-minute writing prompt

Find the line between the difference people admire and the one that makes them flinch.

What a child is asked afterwards

We praise being yourself, then flinch

Is there a friend who does things differently? Write how.

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

Use 'because' once

Give a reason once and a claim turns into thinking.

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.

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