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A small practice for the paper creature

A practical exercise: Invent a useful reason for the tail inside its imaginary world.

Original practice · Optional exercise · Room for play

Choose a low-stakes example you can change without affecting another person’s private information or commitments.

  1. Describe the current situation in one sentence. The example here is: A doodle becomes a creature with an inconveniently long tail.
  2. Invent a useful reason for the tail inside its imaginary world.
  3. Compare the result with the difficulty you named. Write one concrete observation.
  4. Keep, adapt, or stop the experiment. A note about why you stopped is a valid result.

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