A time someone was right and it stung. What did you actually want?
Has someone told you the truth and you were glad? 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.
Delete every line anyone could have written. What is left is yours.
Pick one. A single idea taken all the way beats ten touched lightly.
Cut every “well, but”. The sentence stands up straight without them.
Set the title first and the piece stops wandering.
The last line is the one that stays.
One long sentence can sink the whole piece.