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PROMPT: Successful
Adjust your definition of success until you’re there. It is, after all, a completely subjective term.
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PROMPT: Word or Phrase
“Popularity contest,” as in “This isn’t going to win me any popularity contests, but…” You know what’s not popular? Popularity contests. I’ve never heard of one. What you are really saying is, “I’m about to be a jackass, and I just want you to know that I’m aware I’m being a jackass.” Just own your jackassery all ready. You can’t soften the blow of being a jackass.
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PROMPT: Goals
Daily writing prompt
How often do you say “no” to things that would interfere with your goals?
In playing football, I find telling linebackers “no” is not beneficial. Words are strange things, at once infinitely powerful or powerless, depending upon context and will.
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PROMPT: Secret Skill
“Secret?” To quote Inigo Montoya, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
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Long Live Bonsai [Senryū]
the bonsai tree
isn't a BANZAI! tree,
yet looks 10,000.
NOTE: “Bonsai” [盆栽] means “potted plant.” “Banzai” [万歳] means “10,000 years,” (in the manner of “long live the king.”)
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PROMPT: One Word
Ornery.
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PROMPT: Ban
Daily writing prompt
If you could permanently ban a word from general usage, which one would it be? Why?
I would replace all adverbs with a loud “HONK!”
Why do I do anything, because I think it would be funny. [Granted, only for a short time.]
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PROMPT: Bores
Augers, drills, and trepans. They’re the most boring things I can think of.
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Stump Gator [Kyōka]
Gator rests on stump.
but my mind cannot rest.
it's not "gator"
and "stump" in the same place,
but in the same sentence.
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