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What silence in a room means — a ten-minute writing prompt

What actually happened after everyone agreed.

What a child is asked afterwards

What silence in a room means

Have you wanted to speak and stayed quiet? When?

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 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.

When excuses keep creeping in

Cut every “well, but”. The sentence stands up straight without them.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Add one line for the other side

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

Give one example

'Last Tuesday' always beats 'sometimes'.

Put your point in the first line

Say the conclusion first and the rest sorts itself out.

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