{"product_id":"ebook-two-hundred-questions-for-the-two-minutes-at-the-end-of-a-puzzle-sorted-by-the-kind-of-night-youre-having","title":"Ebook: Two Hundred Questions — For the two minutes at the end of a puzzle, sorted by the kind of night you're having","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe puzzle is the part that gets you to sit down. The two minutes afterwards are why the evening was worth having — and a book of solved grids with nothing written under them is, at the end, a book of solved grids.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMost prompt collections fail the same two ways. They ask questions that are too big — \u003cem\u003ewhat is your purpose\u003c\/em\u003e is not a prompt, it's an essay title, and nobody answers it on a Tuesday. Or they ask the same question in sixty costumes until you're producing the same three answers ironically, and then not at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThese two hundred are deliberately small and deliberately varied. Most can be answered with a noun. Several can be answered with a number. They're grouped by the kind of night you're having rather than by theme, because browsing is a way of not writing — you decide whether it's a flat night or an ordinary one or a bad one, open at that set, and take whatever your eye lands on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eUse them when the journal's own questions run out, or substitute one on a night when the printed question is simply wrong for the day you had. They work with any puzzle from any book, and any notebook you have to hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWhat's inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e200 questions in 16 sets\u003c\/strong\u003e, numbered straight through so a number always means one question, ordered from easy nights at the front to demanding ones at the back.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNothing happened today\u003c\/strong\u003e — fourteen questions answerable with a single noun, for a flat evening with nothing in it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eYour phone, your attention\u003c\/strong\u003e — twelve questions about the day that disappeared into a screen, with no self-improvement attached.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe ones that aren't about feelings\u003c\/strong\u003e — the set almost every prompt collection leaves out, for the large number of people who want the puzzle and the evening but have no wish to write about how they feel. Describe, explain, list, reconstruct — and end up writing something personal sideways.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFor a bad night\u003c\/strong\u003e — a deliberately low bar. One line counts, and one of them is permission to write only the date.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe twenty to start with\u003c\/strong\u003e — if you only ever use twenty of these, use these twenty, in this order. The most-photographed page in the book.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eHow to answer one\u003c\/strong\u003e — the literal answer first, then one more sentence you didn't plan. That second sentence is the entire point.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhen the answer won't come\u003c\/strong\u003e — four specific failures diagnosed, including what it means when you've written the same answer three times.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAsking them out loud\u003c\/strong\u003e — which sets work in a car, on a walk, or at a table, and the one question that reliably turns a flat conversation into a real one.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eRunning a second sixty\u003c\/strong\u003e — how to split two hundred questions into three finished blocks, because a thing that ends is a thing people finish.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3 dir=\"ltr\"\u003eWho it's for\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAnyone who's got to the end of a sixty-day journal and wants to carry on, and anyone who likes the puzzle-then-question shape but finds the printed prompt misses on some nights. No parent product required — it works with any puzzle book, any notebook, or on its own out loud in a car.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Caelum Online","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46524779593914,"sku":null,"price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0766\/7636\/6522\/files\/Mindful-Sudoku_Two-Hundred-Questions_cover.png?v=1788322390","url":"https:\/\/caelumonline.com\/products\/ebook-two-hundred-questions-for-the-two-minutes-at-the-end-of-a-puzzle-sorted-by-the-kind-of-night-youre-having","provider":"Caelum Online","version":"1.0","type":"link"}