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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: 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: 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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PROMPT: Positive Example
I’m not sure I understand the question. I generally associate the feeling of love with positivity, but the wording suggests a contrast to the negative examples of feeling loved.
Also, not sure whether “where” is meant to refer to a part of the body, a city, a region, a country, a room of the house, etc.
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PROMPT: Communicate Online
Like everyone, with a great deal less civility.
Also, with the recognition that no one is trapped by societal convention, so one must be concise, or no one will take it in.
Also, I end sentences with prepositions more.
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