The Mask

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Challenge

Imagine you were going to write a novel. What would be the first sentence?

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“Making It”

I'm 23 years old and $15,000 in debt because I quit my job with Xerox to take big a risk and focus on my dream of working for myself and, in a few weeks, I will be bankrupt - and this thought is the most terrifying and motivating force I've yet experienced.

Challenge

Write a Haiku about your pet. Remember each line you count the syllables: 5,7,5

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The Empress

Get this: we call her

"Mrs. Kisses," and she is

simply The Empress.

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Yo Daddy So Old That...

I wonder what the father of my father of my father of my father - dating back 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, 1,000,000, 10,000,000, 100,000,000, 1,000,000,000, and 10,000,000,000 years ago, respectively - was doing. It's a rather trippy thought to entertain. Think about evolution, genetics, DNA, reproduction. In a certain sense, "you" have always existed, through all your past "fathers" and "mothers," through all past plays of nature.