Put the person saying it next to the person hearing it.
What do you want to do when you grow up? 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.
Write as if no one will read it. You can choose what to show after you finish.
Write down one thing that happened recently. It does not have to be a good story.
Explaining is what stalls you. Put down what you saw and what you heard instead.
One thing from your own life turns borrowed words into your piece.
Set the title first and the piece stops wandering.
The last line is the one that stays.