- Working title
- The Message I Did Not Send
- Format
- Unsaid
- Category
- Desire
- Subject tags
- Attraction, Dating, Embarrassment
- Core thought
- Sometimes the unsent message is not romantic restraint; it is just embarrassment with better timing.
- Real-world trigger
- Drafting a reply to someone and deciding not to send it.
- Specific detail to use
- A phone screen left open on a half-written sentence.
- Discomfort or tension
- Desire is there, but so is age, timing, self-consciousness and the fear of looking foolish.
- Why it fits I Said
- It is a private thought that works best left spare rather than developed into fiction or reflection.
- Output direction
- Treat it as an unsaid thought left almost alone.