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What do I text back?

The cursor is blinking and every draft sounds either cold or like too much.

Bad replies are rarely a wording problem. They answer a different message than the one that arrived.

Read your thread here first

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1. What did they actually ask?

Read it once more for the request rather than the tone. Sometimes there is no request in it at all, and replying as though there was one is the whole mistake.

2. What do you want to be true tomorrow?

A reply written to win the exchange and a reply written to still be talking next week are different messages.

Pick 1 before you type. Trying to do both is how a reply ends up 3 paragraphs long.

3. Does this have to go out now?

If your hands are shaking, the reply is about you. Anything written in that state gets rewritten by morning, and by then it has been read.

The shape that works most of the time

Say the part of theirs that is fair. Say your part plainly, once. Then stop.

The stopping is the step people skip, and it is the one that makes a reply readable. The paragraph that explains the first 2 is the paragraph that starts the next argument.

When the answer is "not today"

Sometimes the right reply today is no reply today. That is not the same as disappearing — it is not answering while you are still angry.

"Today, sending nothing is the better move" is a real answer, and producing it is not a failure.

What ZZEND does with this

Paste what they sent. It writes the reply in 3 parts you can edit separately, in your own register rather than a generic one.

It also says whether to send it now or sit on it, and it says that first.

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