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Are we buying the thing or the image? — a ten-minute writing prompt

One moment you cared more about who the choice made you than about the thing.

What a child is asked afterwards

Are we buying the thing or the image?

Is there something you want? Write why you want 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 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.

When you have too much to say

Pick one. A single idea taken all the way beats ten touched lightly.

Today's constraints on this prompt

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.

Save your best line for last

The last line is the one that stays.

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