Edit: delete clichés

Red on a congress. Green on a verb.

Yesterday an ear. Today a red crayon. You take text — yours, or a slogan suggestion — and you delete a list. What remains must make sense. When nothing remains, a wall and a new sentence. It is not cruelty to a model. It is a setter of a wall. A poster with five clichés and no act is decoration. Decoration of a campaign does not work. A campaign should say: do X. X is check, ask, cross out, close, tell an adult. After deleting, read out loud again. When it still sounds like a speech, once more. Helper shorten. Maker watches that shortening does not delete an act. Shortened nothing is still nothing. Sit with a crayon at paper, not at another prompt “make it better”. Better from the window often adds a new congress. Better from your hand adds a verb. That is why the workshop is analogue, even when ideas came from chat.

Bára has eight campaign lines. Adam in red: in today’s world, relevant, in conclusion, key, innovative, as a pupil I would. What remains is “questioning”. That is not an act. A wall. Bára: “Check the year in a book.” It hangs. An act. A teacher reads it in a second. They would not read eight lines. A red crayon is making. People think making is adding. Maker knows making is taking a congress away. Adam keeps the crayon by the poster. Every next storm must go through it.

Adding is easy. Taking a congress is craft.

A model adds, because a continuation likes to grow. You take. A list of clichés is alive — you add what you hear at school. A shared class list may hang (a campaign). It is not a poster copier. It is an ear track. After deleting, Detective: did a fake name remain? Sometimes a cliché hides made-up. You uncover it when the wrap falls. Then the bin. Then an act. Order: red on a congress, red on a hook, green on an act. Three rounds. Tiring, but a wall clean. When a green sentence fights a textbook, green falls. An act must be doable: check in a book goes. “Be ethical” does not. A vague word is a congress in a costume. Swap it for a click, an opening, a cross-out.

Three rounds on one text.

1. Red clichés (a list).
2. Red hooks (a year, a study, a face).
3. Green an act: check / ask / cross out.

Before: “In today’s world according to a 2019 study it is key to question relevantly.” After the rounds: “Check the date in a textbook.”

A scissors move: “Delete clichés and studies. Keep one act in the imperative. Max 6 words.”

Why this right now

You are in the course Ask with Martin, level Maker. You work in a chatbot (ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude) — same game, different brand. No code. A parent or the school creates the account. A child’s email does not belong here.

This is not the インベンター level. There you build a chatbot on your own website. Here you are a user: a question, a check, a citation.

You will know this lesson by one sentence: Red on a congress, red on a fake, green on an act. What remains hangs. When you can say it to a parent or a teacher, you have got the core. The rest is practice, not magic.

Tomorrow a campaign as a project. Without cliché scissors a campaign will be a congress. With scissors it will be a wall that is read.

Four things you will build in this course

The course has four small projects. You do not have to do them all at once. Today you add only what this lesson can do.

Workshop: three crayon rounds

One paragraph of a campaign suggestion. Three rounds. A result of max two act sentences. Onto paper.

1. M1 a campaign paragraph about how to ask. Read out loud. On the margin write a list of clichés you hear, before you take a crayon. So you know what you are looking for.

2. Round 1 clichés. Round 2 hooks. Round 3 an act.

3. When there is no act, a wall. Write an imperative yourself.

4. Max two sentences on paper. If they hang, they carry a second of an eye.

5. Add to the cliché list one you heard today.

Practice: what remains

After three rounds write a green act.

1. In today’s world it is important to check data.

2. According to a study we are all innovative.

3. Ask again another way. (already an act? enough?)

Now you 💪

Go through three checks. At each one tick in your head: can I see it, or not?

1. After a cross-out there is a verb.
2. You did not delete a school term by mistake.
3. A congress does not hang.

If something is missing, go back to the steps above. This is not a test for marks. It is a safety net, so you go on sure, not confused.

What to take from this lesson

• Making is also taking away.
• Three rounds: a congress, a fake, an act.
• An imperative on the wall.
• A term ≠ a cliché.
• Shortened nothing is nothing. A new sentence from the wall.
• The names in the examples (Bára, Adam) are made up. Do not put your number, email or photo here.
• Next lesson: When you can do this, go to the next lesson in the same level.

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