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Passion talk and postponed pay — a ten-minute writing prompt

Write the room where 'you'd do it anyway' was said.

What a child is asked afterwards

Passion talk and postponed pay

How did you feel when you helped but weren't thanked?

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 nothing comes to mind

Write down one thing that happened recently. It does not have to be a good story.

When you stall halfway

Explaining is what stalls you. Put down what you saw and what you heard instead.

When it reads flat

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

Today's constraints on this prompt

Finish in 6 sentences

Stopping early is the hardest and the most readable.

Only words a child knows

One word that needs a dictionary is where reading stops.

Always say who did it

Not 'it was decided' but 'I decided'. Leave out the doer and the writing hides.

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