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More rules, less trust — a ten-minute writing prompt

Trace one rule back to the distrust that created it.

What a child is asked afterwards

More rules, less trust

A rule you dislike. Why do you think it exists?

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

Only words a child knows

One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.

Always say who did it

Not 'it was decided' but 'I decided'. Leave out the doer and the writing hides.

Add one sense

Writing through the body needs no explaining.

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