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Clear goals, frequent unhappiness — a ten-minute writing prompt

Write about the day after you reached a goal.

What a child is asked afterwards

Clear goals, frequent unhappiness

What do you want to achieve? What changes then?

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 it reads flat

Find the sentence you are least sure about. What you actually meant is usually hiding there.

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.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Write what could be seen

Write the visible, not the felt, and the reader stands there with you.

Start with a question

Open with a question and the reader keeps going to find the answer.

Add one line for the other side

One line against your own view makes the whole piece stronger.

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