One moment modesty actually closed the conversation.
What do you say when someone praises you? Why that?
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.
Cut at the conjunction. Where “and” or “so” appears, a period belongs.
Write as if no one will read it. You can choose what to show after you finish.
Write down one thing that happened recently. It does not have to be a good story.
If it still flows without them, the flow was already there.
'Thing' hides the real word. Name it.
'Three years' always beats 'a long time'.