Taught creative writing for 3 years before a student pointed out my fatal flaw

I had my middle schoolers do a free write exercise last Tuesday, and one kid asked why every single one of my example paragraphs started with "The sun was setting." That's when I realized I'd been using the same opening line for every writing prompt for years without even noticing. Has anyone else had a blind spot like that just smack them in the face out of nowhere?

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alex_coleman1mo ago

The sun was setting" - that's rough buddy. I had a similar wake up call when a coworker pointed out I started every email with "Hope this finds you well" and I had to go back and rewrite a bunch of them.

the_anthony1mo ago

My last 47 emails started with "Following up on this.