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More options, less satisfied — a ten-minute writing prompt

Start from the moment you kept thinking about what you didn't choose.

What a child is asked afterwards

More options, less satisfied

Was something hard to choose? What was 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

Save your best line for last

The last line is the one that stays.

Every sentence under 12 words

One long sentence can sink the whole piece.

No 'and' or 'so'

If it still flows without them, the flow was already there.

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