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Why the people who record everything forget — a ten-minute writing prompt

Which is sharper — the day you photographed or the one you didn't?

What a child is asked afterwards

Why the people who record everything forget

What day do you remember well with no photos?

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

No 'very', 'really', 'so'

These words look like force. They take it away.

Finish in 6 sentences

Stopping early is the hardest and the most readable.

Only words a child knows

One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.

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