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How would you describe yourself in three words?
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What scares you about getting older?
Time & hindsight
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What does the first sixty minutes of your day look like?
Daily life
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When you feel overwhelmed or unfocused, what do you do?
Daily life
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Which book are you ashamed not to have read?
Taste & recommendation
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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Are you afraid of death?
Death & what remains
Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this exact standing prompt.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Lazy, anxious, and distracted.
Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 September 2006 source ↗
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Big dick energy.
Scrappy, quixotic, curious.
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I would so much like to have a daily writing schedule. If I had one, I'd probably start about 9.30, write for 2 hours, have lunch, write another 2, then goof off. As it is, I goof off, then panic and write in the evenings. Do not follow my example.
Don’t sit down in the middle of the woods. If you’re lost in the plot or blocked, retrace your steps to where you went wrong. Then take the other road. And/or change the person. Change the tense. Change the opening page.
What is this guilt of which you prate, Earthling?
Anonymous. She’s working to make the planet greener.
Of dying, only if painful and protracted, or if I get stuck inside an inert body. I would also not wish to be trapped in a jar.
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