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Growing up is giving up what? — a ten-minute writing prompt

Name exactly one thing you lost on the way to adulthood.

What a child is asked afterwards

Growing up is giving up what?

Do you want to grow up fast? Write why.

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 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.

When you can't be honest

Write as if no one will read it. You can choose what to show after you finish.

Today's constraints on this prompt

Put your point in the first line

Say the conclusion first and the rest sorts itself out.

Use 'because' once

Give a reason once and a claim turns into thinking.

Put in one thing that happened to you

One thing from your own life turns borrowed words into your piece.

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