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Write a distinct piece, beginning, middle, and end, in 60 seconds. Find each word’s weight, texture, color.

I am not sure there is much value to me in sixty-second writings: I do not like the pressure element. On the other hand, it is a chute that can pinpoint my mind. Will it convince others? That may not be its purpose or main worth—which may lie in wait for me.

Story was the easiest way to do that. What of description or persuasion? What of haiku?

:- Doug.

That piece (on betweens) would not yield to me, to my pen. Could it be that if I gave myself a game with a restraining rule or two, it would give up its profundity and vigor? Write it like a roadmap, or a cartoon? Make it a pair of reading glasses? Pick a book title from a list? Throw an obstacle, a maze.

Second rule: tell it slant. Never use the word between.

:- Doug.

This is important. Steep awhile here.

:- Doug.

What are the rules of dream time as in Finnegans Wake?

:- Doug.