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What a good leader delays — a ten-minute writing prompt

Put a good delay next to a bad one.

What a child is asked afterwards

What a good leader delays

Who decides things in your class?

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

Open in 5 words or fewer

Lose them in line one and the rest never happens.

Vary how sentences end

The same ending three times in a row puts readers to sleep.

No 'very', 'really', 'so'

These words look like force. They take it away.

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