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Not Quite Right features discussions that
are unfiltered and uncensored,

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and may include themes that are
inappropriate for younger listeners.

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Also, I swear a lot.

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Something doesn't seem quite right.

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Welcome to Not quite right.

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My name's Ed and I'm Amanda.

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Have you got your dancing shoes on?

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I've got my dancing shoes.

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I've got my dancing baggy pants.

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I've got my dancing backwards cap.

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I'm ready to go.

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Australia jacket.

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I do.

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Well,
it's time for the long list episode for

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the April 2026 Not Quite Right prize for
Flash Fiction.

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Woo.

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This is the episode where we share our
favourite prompt responses,

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our favourite titles, our favourite lions,
all of our shout outs.

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We'll share some stats from this round of
the competition and some of your feedback

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as well.

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And at the end of the episode,
we'll be reading out the long list,

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the 40 stories that are still in the
running for the shortlist and the win,

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all the cash up for grabs,
the place in the anthology at the end of

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the year, and of course, that pointy,
pointy trophy.

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And I know a few people have their eyes
on that particular prize,

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but as we go through those shout outs and
what have you,

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it's worth remembering that that doesn't
mean you did or didn't make the long list.

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So the actual long list is right at the
end.

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So you have to wait for that.

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And just to put this into context,
so this is the long list episode where we

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share our thoughts about the round.

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Next up will be the shortlist episode
where we read 6 stories in their entirety

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as always,
and we reveal the winner of this round.

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And following those,
there will be 5 Daredevil episodes,

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5 Brave souls who've signed up to have
their stories ripped apart on the podcast.

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They'll be coming through after that.

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But we also have some more episodes that
will be coming through on the podcast

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stream at some point.

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We have three Bare Devil episodes as well
that will be released and also a regular

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episode.

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We've recorded that as well.

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Someone needs to edit those episodes.

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I'm not sure who.

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It's not gonna be me,
I'll tell you that much.

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No, just just spare a thought for me.

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Who's gotta edit a long list episode,
a short list episode 5 Daredevils 3 Bare

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Devils,
a regular episode and as of the time of

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recording,
we are getting ready to go to words on

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the waves where we'll have a whole bunch
of author interviews as well to edit and

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release on our interview stream.

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It would be super helpful if like I had
any ability to do any of this with you,

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but you just rock up,
you say your things and you leave me with

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the repercussions.

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That's it.

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So on that if you are at Words on the
Waves,

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I'm actually not sure if this is going to
come out before or after Words on the

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Waves.

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But if you are at Words on the Waves on
the Central Coast at the end of the month

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and you see us there, do say hi.

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Tell us that you listen to the podcast.

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Tell us that you into the competition.

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We'd love to hear from you.

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Yeah,
I love meeting all the local participants.

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It's good fun and it's just a great time
at the festival as well.

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In fact, I think Story Club has sold out.

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So I'm not sure.

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Oh, really?

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Yeah, I think it has.

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So.

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But we'll be at Story Club and we'll also
be at the poetry slam.

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So I'm not sure if that one's sold out,
but they are a great time.

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There's also obviously a lot of author
talks,

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there's a whole kids programme that'll be
happening at the library and I think

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we'll be actually joining them there at
the library on the Sunday.

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So yeah, lots of fun stuff to be doing.

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It's a good time every year.

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All right, so all that being said,
let's get into the April round and we'll

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start with just a little bit of an intro,
I guess into the concept,

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into the the theme for this round,
which was a dance off.

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So why did we choose this theme and why
did we choose our little personas?

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I actually recall that this all stems
from you saying that you wanted to use

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disco as a word prompt.

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Oh, does it remember how this all went?

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Yeah.

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So you had said that you thought that
would be a really fun word because

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although disco itself conjures up a whole
image,

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it actually can be used also in a whole
bunch of bunch of words, different words,

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which, of course,
many of our authors discovered.

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And so from disco,
I just had this image of you in the white

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suit.

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And then I'm like, OK,
so if it's going to be a dance off,

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what can I do instead?

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And so then Ray Gun came to me.

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Yeah.

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In a flash of inspiration.

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And it all went from there.

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I just found out that Ray Gun's fairly
local.

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She's.

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She's from Hornsby.

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Oh, really?

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Just around the corner.

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I did not show that.

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Gotten her on the podcast.

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I'm sure she'd love to talk about it.

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So I will confess that I don't actually
know a lot about break dancing.

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And I think it's probably safe to say
that a lot of our entrants don't know a

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lot about break dancing either.

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However,
they know a lot more about it now.

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They do.

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And same with Disco,
and I think each of the team will get

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into it,
but I think they each had a bit of a

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different vibe this time with some
overlap, some similarities,

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but some very distinct vibes on each side
of the coin there.

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Absolutely.

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I think this is a fun theme as well.

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OK, well,
let's get into the stats for this round.

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We received 293 entries and the total
number of words read was 141,511 words,

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which is A about on par with the Da Vinci
Code by Dan Brown.

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Mm Hmm.

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Is it time to reveal the popular vote?

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I think so.

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Why not?

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Look, this is as close as it gets,
I believe.

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Listen to you.

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What?

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Well,
what we have here in the stats is team Ed

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50% and team Amanda 50%.

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That's it.

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Because that's how close it is.

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But there were there were an odd number
of stories.

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There were an odd number of stories noted
that.

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So who was it who had that?

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What extra?

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Well, yes,
it was just one extra Team Ed 146 and

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Team Amanda 147.

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This never happens in any kind of
Democratic voting situation where it's

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like 1 vote in it.

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Yeah, close as it gets.

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But of course it's not just about who
wins the popular vote.

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As you were so keen to point out last
round, we have a point system.

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So if you're familiar with the point
system we use in the community on the

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leaderboard where we have 1.4 long list,
two points for shortlist and three points

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for the winner,
it's the same for the winning team.

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So even though you have won the popular
vote, Amanda, congratulations.

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Thank you.

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I was waiting for that.

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The competition is not over for us.

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No, that's it.

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And if you're new here and are interested
to see the leaderboard,

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you can do that in the community.

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So you go into your profile in the
community and there's a button there that

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says leaderboard and you can go in there
and see how you're faring.

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Yes,
and we have tied in first position Athena

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Law and Emily Rinkamar and then from
there we have tied in third position,

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Greg Schmidt, Sam James,
Chad Frame and WJ Arthur and it goes on

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from there.

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So that's pre the results of this
competition.

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So we will see if there's any changes to
the leaderboard.

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Yeah,
we might check back on that after the

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shortlist episode and see how things have
changed.

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Sounds good.

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So congratulations again,
Amanda for taking out the popular vote.

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You are more popular, but not much more.

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I'll take it.

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But having said that,
there were people who actually wrote

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stories for both teams.

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But of course, we make you choose.

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We make you choose when you submit your
stories.

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So any of these people may have just
chosen a different team and maybe swung

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things around.

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So Chrissy Driver,
who mentioned in her feedback that she

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wrote stories for both prompts,
and it was difficult to decide which one

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to submit.

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So she actually wrote two stories and
submitted one.

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I think a few people do that,
to be honest.

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I don't know where people find the time.

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Ivy Craven,
who says that she also had a go at the

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Team Amanda prompts and had lots of fun
writing that story too.

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But the hustle won out.

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So both of those people submitted a story
for Team Ed, and that is a good approach,

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right?

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If you're just not sure to write it out,
see where it's going and sort of pick

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your stronger story,
I think if you've got the time for that.

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Absolutely.

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Michaela Bishop also originally was
planning on joining Team Amanda,

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but she switched to Team Ed.

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So thank you for that, Michaela.

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Conversely,
SA McNaughton started out working on a

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Team Ed story and it morphed into a Team
Amanda story.

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So swings and roundabouts.

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And finally, Anne Marie Covford,
who notes that her story technically also

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satisfied Team Amanda's action and word
prompt, so could be dual eligible.

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But she chose Team Ed,
which I thoroughly appreciate.

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But it still wasn't enough.

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It wasn't enough, it wasn't quite enough,
but every little bit helps.

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So that's it for the stats.

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But as always,
we like to go through the feedback that

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we received as part of the submission
form in the general feedback section,

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which we love to read every time.

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It's always so positive,
especially at the end of the comp,

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like when you know,
when the home stretch and we see all the

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stories come through and see all of that
positive feedback.

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It's great to read.

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It makes it feel all worthwhile and we
love that you guys by and large are

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loving the comp.

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We'll talk about some exceptions and some
some feedback here,

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but overwhelmingly the the responses are
always possible, which we love.

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And we speculated before that this is
probably has a lot to do with people just

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feeling relieved at that story.

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And it's a good time to ask.

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It's definitely a good time to ask.

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Don't ask them at prompt drop time.

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I'll tell you that.

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That's true.

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So look,
maybe a little bit of controversy this

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time around with relation to the prompts
and the theme.

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It was a little bit polarising.

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Some people really loved the
possibilities that these prompts allowed.

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Like,
we had a lot of different words there,

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especially in the kicker that people
could latch onto.

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And some people, of course,
found that that gave them too many

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options.

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And this is something that we can never
really satisfy everyone on, right?

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Some people really like the restriction,
being forced into a few options and being

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kind of told what to write essentially.

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And other people love kind of going where
their imagination takes them.

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And I would say probably our tendency is
to learn more to possibilities rather

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than too restrictive,
probably because that's our personal

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preference.

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But you know,
at times they can be restrictive.

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I mean,
it's the prompts that you get on the day.

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And so the other thing about the kicker
prompt this round,

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which is a little bit different to last
round,

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was the fact that we had a little bit of
required research maybe as part of it and

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a few people pushed back on that.

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OK,
We acknowledge that it does require a

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little bit of specialised knowledge that
not many people have.

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Not many people know what are all the
break dancing moves?

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What are all the disco dance moves?

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Which is why,
and we put this in the email,

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is that we posted in the community at the
time of of launch,

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some hints and suggestions.

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We provided our own little list of dance
moves that people could use.

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And also the community is a perfect place
to kind of throw around ideas.

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And we're thrilled that people did throw
around ideas and kind of get inspired by

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each other in there.

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I think that's something that we'll
probably keep going in future rounds so

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that people have that place to discuss,
not only, you know,

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once you've written a story and you could
share your drop,

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but just initialise ideas.

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What these prompts inspiring you and what
do they make you think about?

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I think there's a possibility here that
people are also overthinking things.

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And I say that with my hand firmly in the
air as an overthinker,

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that they feel this pressure to like
capture all of that and to understand

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break dancing, for example,
to be able to write a story.

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And I don't really think that was
required here.

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You know, we made it quite open.

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You could just take one break dancing
move and run with it.

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You didn't need to like research
necessarily in great detail all about

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break dancing.

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You could have just sort of taken
something from the surface level and run

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with it.

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So while I appreciate that critique,
I think there are ways around it if you

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just think creatively.

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I think maybe sometimes it's that initial
kind of shock of like,

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oh **** what does this prompt actually
mean?

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But when you unpack it,
it can be fairly straightforward.

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And I would actually very strongly
encourage people to jump on the community.

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00:11:53.760 --> 00:11:57.738
If you are feeling like you have decision
paralysis or if you are feeling

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00:11:57.738 --> 00:12:02.040
overwhelmed by the challenge of a kicker,
go and express that in the community.

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00:12:02.040 --> 00:12:06.849
And I guarantee there will be people who
come back and reassure and support you

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00:12:06.849 --> 00:12:11.719
and help you find a way through that to
get to a story idea that you're happy to

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00:12:11.719 --> 00:12:12.080
write.

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And so, you know,
it's hard to brainstorm on your own,

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00:12:14.532 --> 00:12:17.510
like you can reach out to the community
to to help you with that process,

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especially if you're feeling really stuck.

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Absolutely.

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And part of what really appealed to us
about the theme this round and the kicker

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in specifically was all of those options.

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And just when you look at the dance moves
on offer,

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the variety of different options that
gave you for settings, characters,

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situations,
that's what really appealed to us.

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So we wanted to kind of have you guys
also feel that,

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which is why we wanted to give that list
as a, as a starting point.

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So totally understand that.

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And it's not always, I don't think,
you know,

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every round is going to be different and
we're not always going to have research

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required.

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It might be quite restrictive in some
rounds more than others.

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We've got some ideas already about future
rounds.

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So we will just have to wait and see
about those.

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So we had some feedback on the write off
format, which is a new format still.

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It's our second write off this round.

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Lincoln said that they liked the yin Yang
approach of the two prompts and the way

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that they, you know,
offered a complimentary but contrasting

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set of options.

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And that's a very astute observation,
Lincoln.

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I think that's what we're going for is to
have that complimentary contrast.

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Yeah, equivalent challenge,
but giving you a different vibe kind of

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thing, a different a different path,
2 roads diverge in a yellow wood,

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you know that kind of thing.

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Exactly.

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And Liv points out that the two options
make it more likely that one will spark

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an idea.

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And that's exactly what we're going for.

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And that's the little competition that
Amanda and I have between ourselves is

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that who can spark the most ideas and who
can get the most people on our own team.

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But there are some people who are still
holding a candle for the anti prompt.

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Lisa,
Ellen and Tom have all called that out,

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which we understand we do.

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Did the anti prompts thing for two years,
more than two years and and loved it was

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hectic.

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Yes.

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And look,
everyone's gonna have their favourites

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and as we've said before,
we might bring the anti prompt back in

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one way or another in the future.

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But look, we love this new format.

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We love the diversity and the difference.

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It allows us each round to be creative in
different ways and have fun and be

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serious and be weird and all those kinds
of things.

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We look forward to all of these different
things that we've got coming through the

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pipeline that we're already working on
our artwork and our themes for the next

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round, and I'm super excited about that.

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We've just seen the draught image from
North.

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Yeah.

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And our plan this round is to actually
share that image a little bit sooner.

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Yeah.

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Yes.

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Why not?

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It's because they're so beautiful.

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And it might give you a little hint of
what the prompts might be,

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or it might send you completely down the
garden path.

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So, you know, that's a risk.

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We want to get you excited about the
theme, so keep your eyes peeled.

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So there are a few technical issues this
round, mostly around the submission form,

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which we have talked about before,
but I just want to raise a couple of them

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00:15:08.957 --> 00:15:09.280
again.

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1 is a paste issue where when you paste a
story that's around 500 words,

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sometimes the form rejects it.

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00:15:15.800 --> 00:15:18.570
Now there is a little bit of a
troubleshooting section in the form that

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explains how to work around that.

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It is just a consequence of how the form
is set up.

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We're always looking at improving that.

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But just if you are experiencing issues
pasting into the form,

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just read that little troubleshooting
section.

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It will explain how to work around it.

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And the easiest tip is to just copy it
from something very simple like Notepad

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for example.

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Just copy your text in and then if you do
want to do any formatting,

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00:15:41.543 --> 00:15:44.920
do it in the form or often you can just
paste in smaller chunks.

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Usually you only get issues if you try to
paste everything all in at once and

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00:15:48.145 --> 00:15:49.800
there's formatting and things like that.

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So if you don't want to redo your format,
just like paste half the story and then

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00:15:52.978 --> 00:15:53.560
the other half.

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And there's some other feedback on the
website that we received.

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00:15:56.200 --> 00:15:57.000
We always read it.

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00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:00.949
We always take it into consideration and
put some of your suggestions on the

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00:16:00.949 --> 00:16:01.360
backlog.

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00:16:01.360 --> 00:16:05.433
There is a huge backlog at the moment,
which I intend to work on in the second

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00:16:05.433 --> 00:16:09.507
half of the year once all of our Flesh
Fiction and Words on the Waves episodes

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00:16:09.507 --> 00:16:09.919
are out.

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00:16:10.280 --> 00:16:12.800
A few people have said that the form is
hard to find.

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00:16:13.040 --> 00:16:16.985
We're looking at addressing all of that
and making some other speed improvements,

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00:16:16.985 --> 00:16:19.440
other quality of life improvements to the
website.

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So all of that is coming this year.

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Just a couple of other comments to read.

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1 commenter said I'm not sure about the
fact that only someone from the winning

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00:16:29.626 --> 00:16:31.720
team can win the randomised prizes.

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00:16:31.720 --> 00:16:35.502
Coaching with Amanda is a very good prize
and for someone who has no chance of

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winning but would like the help,
it seems unfair to to debar them because

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00:16:39.044 --> 00:16:40.960
they picked the wrong team at the start.

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00:16:41.240 --> 00:16:43.377
And yes,
someone in the community had pointed that

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out as well.

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00:16:43.880 --> 00:16:47.857
And it's not something that we considered
really as a problem necessarily when

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we're looking at the price structure.

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00:16:49.720 --> 00:16:53.329
We just wanted to award a little bonus to
the winning team just to make the team

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00:16:53.329 --> 00:16:54.800
thing a little bit more relevant.

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00:16:54.800 --> 00:16:57.424
Yeah,
I guess I don't particularly agree

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necessarily that it's unfair.

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I think it's a chance thing, right?

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00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:04.560
That's the whole beauty of this
particular prize is that it's chance.

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00:17:04.560 --> 00:17:06.040
And so you say you picked the wrong team.

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OK, this time, next time maybe not.

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Like that's part of the chance aspect.

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And of course,
the the bigger part of the chance aspect

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being your name just gets completely
drawn out at random once we get down to

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00:17:16.046 --> 00:17:16.559
that point.

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So from our perspective,
it was very much what it is a bonus prize

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00:17:20.225 --> 00:17:23.454
and just something,
something extra to make the team thing

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00:17:23.454 --> 00:17:27.448
feel more relevant, not just to us,
but to the people participating too,

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00:17:27.448 --> 00:17:30.074
that you want your own team members to do
well,

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00:17:30.074 --> 00:17:32.920
whether or not you do particularly well
that round.

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And we also wanted to offer a little
something extra to those of you who are

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00:17:36.803 --> 00:17:39.246
still early on in your writing careers,
you know,

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who maybe don't feel so confident about
winning or taking home a cash prize in

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00:17:43.107 --> 00:17:45.160
that respect that you still have a chance.

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And it's it's sort of something that
everybody can do.

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That's completely egalitarian, I suppose.

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00:17:50.400 --> 00:17:53.143
Having said that,
I wouldn't rule someone new to writing

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winning the whole damn thing either
'cause that certainly does happen.

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00:17:56.960 --> 00:17:59.537
But, you know, someone who doesn't feel,
I guess,

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00:17:59.537 --> 00:18:03.558
necessarily as confident still has a
chance of taking something home just for

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00:18:03.558 --> 00:18:04.280
participating.

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And another factor for us is that we
wanted to encourage people not to DNF.

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So, you know,
did not finish or did not submit a story.

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We were hoping to encourage people to
kind of push themselves and maybe even if

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00:18:15.872 --> 00:18:18.774
they weren't feeling super happy with
what they created,

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00:18:18.774 --> 00:18:21.880
that they would still hand it in and give
themselves a shot.

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00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:26.650
And the same commenter also suggests that
we think about doing a pay it forward

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00:18:26.650 --> 00:18:27.040
scheme.

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00:18:27.280 --> 00:18:31.352
And we have actually had a couple of
people donate some entries in recent

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times and we've shared those on social
media and had people snap up the free

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tickets, which has been great.

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There's a certain amount of admin
overhead that comes with that.

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And we're trying to really work out
exactly the best way to manage that and

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make it fair for everyone and make it,
you know, easy to, to track and manage.

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So that is something that we're thinking
about formalising and implementing in

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future.

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So stay tuned and we'll let you know.

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Another comment from Sheridan,
who says I was disappointed to fall off

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the leaderboard after the January round.

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Is there a method to which of us in 18th
or equal 18th place on four points made

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the cut?

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Or are we just unfortunate if our name is
later in the alphabet and there isn't a

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method?

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I think it is, unfortunately,
if you are later in the alphabet.

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So I'll have a look at that.

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And maybe we can increase the size of
that leaderboard just to include everyone

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who is of a certain level,
or just increase that cut off.

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Because I agree,
it's not fair that if you have the same

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number of points as someone who's on the
leaderboard, you should.

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You should definitely be on the
leaderboard as well.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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Another comment from James.

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I missed out on the Flesh fiction,
but now have an idea that I'd like to try

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and write anyway.

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Curious to know if there's an appropriate
part of the community to paste it,

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even though that one is done.

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So we actually do have a section of the
community that you can post to.

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It's called the Share Other writing board.

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So just click the link in the community
and you can share that there.

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And yeah, flesh fiction is over,
but I'm sure there are a lot of people

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who are hankering for some good old
fashioned smart so.

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Go for it, that's it.

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And look,
the best way again to get more feedback

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00:20:08.381 --> 00:20:12.680
in the community is to give feedback and
you can share a link then to your story.

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And it's usually quid pro quo.

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If you feedback on someone's story,
they often, not always,

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00:20:18.089 --> 00:20:19.360
but often will come back.

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It's good etiquette to do that right,
to sort of swap.

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So that's how I'd recommend to get more
feedback on your story.

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And finally,
a comment from Tina who says love the

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option of two prompts.

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I always worry that my style of story is
a little is a little dark for this

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competition,
but I try to make it more and settling

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than graphic.

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Maybe one of the options could be a genre
category.

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So 2 questions there.

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One about the genre category and that's
something that we might do in a later

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kicker.

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Yeah.

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No reason that couldn't be a kicker.

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And As for dark stories,
what are you talking about?

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We love the hell are you talking?

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Did you not hear the winner from last
round, Tina?

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Like, come on, bring it on.

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Just please do not censor yourself.

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Like I'm not saying that's all we want.

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Of course it's not.

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In fact,
what I love most about reading the

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stories in this competition is the
variety.

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That huge variety from the most dark,
unhinged **** to light and fluffy to love

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stories and comedies.

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And I love it all.

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Like I don't rule any story out of that
consideration, including, by the way,

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erotica, which we're now, funnily enough,
getting a little bit more of in the

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regular competition as well.

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So please, please,
please do not censor yourself.

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We welcome it, Absolutely.

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And that is all for our general feedback.

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Let's move on to the prompt discussion
and we'll start with my team.

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My team was team Disco and there were a
lot of stories that featured Disco as a

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prominent ****.

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Are you serious?

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Surprisingly, I don't know why.

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I don't know why,
but I would estimate that almost 40% at

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my account were stories that either were
set in a disco or the prominently

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featured like a disco song or, you know,
disco was a major part of the story and

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you know, you didn't have to do disco.

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No, and that's an option.

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The idea behind the whole thing is that
you can pick and choose.

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You can choose which ones inspire.

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Obviously you have to include all the all
the prompts,

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but you can choose which ones to really
lean into and let inspire you.

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And it didn't necessarily need to be a
story about disco was there to write

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about something completely different.

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But I guess the answer is there that it
did inspire people.

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Yeah.

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So you absolutely can write about disco.

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But the word of caution is, you know,
if you choose the obvious theme,

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then you're competing against a lot of
other stories that are writing about the

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same theme.

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So it's a,
it's a little bit harder to stand out,

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I feel,
if you write directly into the theme in

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that way.

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So it's true.

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Having said that, you know,
some disco stories obviously did make the

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long list and and did do very well,
but it is just a little bit harder to

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stand out.

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Another theme that was quite strong in
addition to disco or I guess alongside

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disco was this idea of nostalgia.

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And a lot of stories went back into that
era.

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And even if disco wasn't like the primary
thing where, you know,

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we're in the 70s or the early 80s where
exploring the music of that era or just

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lifestyles of that era.

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So it's a lot of stories that lead
heavily into nostalgia as well.

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But let's get into the prompt.

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So my word prompt was disco.

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And as I've just mentioned,
that disco was something that people

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latched onto.

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So out of the 146 stories in my team,
there were 74 that featured just the word

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disco or discos as words.

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So that's about half of them.

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So in addition to disco and its variants
like discos or discotheque,

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there are a whole bunch of other
derivatives of the word disco or words

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that include it.

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The second most common was discovered,
but we had some unusual ones.

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We had discombobulated or
discombobulating.

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We had discoloration, disconsolate,
counted discompliance,

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which was 1 instance of that by Janelle
Greenon.

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Discoid, which was used by Austin Gough.

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What does that mean?

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Like a disc shape?

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Yeah.

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Undiscouraged,
which was used by Deb Gross.

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Discoidal, which was used by Kenny Penn,
former Daredevil.

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Hi, Kenny.

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Discomodius were used by former winner WJ
Arthur Discogram,

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which is intriguing by Victoria Harris.

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Only one instance of Discord,
which is surprising.

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So and I haven't listed them all there
were on my list here.

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There were 39 different uses of the words
of different variations of the word disco.

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So quite a bit of variety,
but what stood out to me was definitely

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that there were quite a lot of discos
that were featuring.

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And actually, not only discos,
but disco balls was one that I found

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featured quite heavily,
especially in opening paragraphs.

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10% of stories,
one in 10 stories featured a disco ball,

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and most of those actually in the opening
lines.

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So opening a couple of lines introduced a
disco ball.

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Well,
that's a pretty good scene setting piece

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of detail, so that makes sense to me.

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All right,
so let's look at the action now.

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And the action for my team was freaking
out,

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which is of course taken from the Song of
the Freak.

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So Chic,
one general thought about this is that a

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lot of people really leaned into this and
made the freaking out the central plot

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element of the story,
which is a nice bit of conflict, really.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So yeah, it is great conflict.

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And I think it's a wonderful thing to
centre in your story.

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It's a piece of interest and action.

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Obviously all those things are good,
but I would offer a word of caution and

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just to make sure it's not like
superficial like it happens because of

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the plot.

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Think about cause and effect.

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It needs to flow from the story and what
we know about the characters,

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not just a thing that happens to meet the
prompt.

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And when the freak out is resolved or
overcome in whatever way it needs to be

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for the story,
is that a satisfying outcome that flows

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from the events of the story,
or is the freak out merely over?

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So just a few things to consider.

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Definitely.

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I think it's a strong way to approach the
prompts and absolutely take advantage of

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the fact that it does provide good drama
and conflicts.

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But as always,
that idea of cause and effect, characters,

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and satisfying conclusion are all things
that need to work together to to make a

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satisfying peace.

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So a few of the responses, well,
I guess freaking out was primarily an

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almost 100%, I'd say,
with very few exceptions related to the

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act of someone losing their **** from one
way or another.

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And that could be due to panic.

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It could be like an emergency that's
taking place, an existential crisis.

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It could be anger or a rage or other kind
of outburst or a phobia,

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a fear that comes to light.

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So lots of different takes on that but
all boils down to this idea of someone

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just losing their ****.

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So a few interesting responses to call
out We had We Aren't Fishermen by WJ

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Arthur where we had a fish freaking out
and being caught and reeled to its death.

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On the theme of non human freak outs,
we had in A Beat of Wings by KA Vargas a

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butterfly freaking out after its mother
was eaten and seeking revenge by Chrissy

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Driver.

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Lots of the crossing we had a characters
smartphone freaking out when its owner

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diverts their attention away.

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I mean why should we humans have all the
fun of losing our **** Really.

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Like, you know,
equal opportunity freak outs.

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We had a couple of sex related freak outs
by Ivy Craven in the story crowned Jewel.

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We had a sex worker freaking out because
she can't match her client's penile

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abnormality to anything in the brothels
reference folder.

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She realises it's a **** ring of some
sort that's left its mark.

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From Trevor Flanagan the unexpected
pitfalls and predicaments of wine fueled

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resource.

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We had the character Ted freaking out
when he's partner won't release him from

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**** restraints.

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Another little sexual mishap.

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There was a little bit of flesh fiction
overflow.

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I would say another pun,
but I we're out of puns.

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I think we exhausted our supply.

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We spent drained just a couple more to
call out.

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We had by Chad frame.

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Where do I see myself in five years,
which is basically the whole story,

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is a freak out,
a hallucinogen induced freak out at a

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inappropriate moment in a job interview.

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So it was a fun story.

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That's a pretty bad time to get on the
drugs.

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I feel that's got to be up there.

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Yeah.

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Bad choice.

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There's a bit of a culture of micro
dosing in some.

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I'm not sure this one was a micro dose.

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I think it might have been.

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So, yeah,
like a lot of fun responses and really,

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look,
I don't think this was as wide open as

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some of the other prompts.

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A freak out's a freak out, right?

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Your character has to lose their **** at
some point.

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And it was great to see all of the
different responses to that prompt.

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So finally, let's move into the kicker.

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And this is the one that I was most
excited about.

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And when we talked about prompts and,
and the theme for this round,

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this is when it all came together for me,
I guess.

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And we posted in the community our an
initial bit of research.

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I did a fair bit of research on on this.

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And part of what we had to consider was
like,

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how do we let you guys know what these
quite niche dance moves are?

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A lot of people were born later than the
disco era, myself included.

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So names like the Hustle, the Bus Stop,
the Bump, the Funky Chicken,

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these are things that I've heard of.

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But if you had previously asked me to
write a list of disco moves,

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I wouldn't have come up with a an
intensive list.

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But there were a lot of diverse options
here.

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For me,
these represented not only dance moves,

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but settings and actions.

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When we talk about the bus stop,
it's a setting.

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Hustle is an action or something that a
character can do.

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Roller skate might be something that they
wear.

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You know,
hitchhike is something that a character

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can do.

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So there's so many options here and I and
I was really looking forward to seeing

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all of the responses and all of the
different ways that you all would take it.

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And look,
a lot of the stories actually did portray

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these as dance moves and you didn't have
to,

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you didn't have to have a character do
the bus stop.

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You could have just featured a bus stop.

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So that was an option.

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And but obviously a lot of these stories
were set in discos and featured disco

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00:30:54.270 --> 00:30:54.760
dancing.

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So it all kind of makes sense.

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But as always,
we're not stickers for the rules and

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asking for natural interpretations of the
prompts.

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We the whole point of it as we see it,
is to inspire you and to get you to think

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00:31:06.274 --> 00:31:06.920
creatively.

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And we love to see the creative takes
that you sent us.

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So the most popular response was the
hustle at about 1/4 quarter of the

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stories feature the hustle.

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00:31:16.760 --> 00:31:21.085
And I think that's a good option to go
with the character can hustle to,

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00:31:21.085 --> 00:31:23.989
you know,
move quickly or they can hustle to get

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00:31:23.989 --> 00:31:24.760
the job done.

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Or in a lot of cases,
it was a literal dance followed by the

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bump and then the Travolta,
the OR the point or the disco finger.

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That's the iconic move, right?

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Yeah, exactly.

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When you think of disco,
you think of that move, the funky chicken.

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Surprisingly, about 10% of stories,
oh wow, featured the funky chicken.

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00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:48.145
And a lot of those stories,
several of those stories, I should say,

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00:31:48.145 --> 00:31:52.619
featured funky chicken in the context of
like an out of date of chicken, poisoned,

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00:31:52.619 --> 00:31:54.560
poisoned, salmonella ridden chicken.

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00:31:54.560 --> 00:31:55.120
Exactly.

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00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:58.005
Which, you know,
I didn't foresee that that would be such

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a large source of inspiration, people,
but that was fun to see.

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The bus stop,
next highest YMCA electric slide,

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00:32:04.933 --> 00:32:09.423
the snap, the robot,
which I thought would be a bit higher

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00:32:09.423 --> 00:32:09.880
robot.

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I remember a few stories prominently
featuring robots or maybe even AI.

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Surprised that wasn't higher.

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And you know,
there are a lot of others and I welcome

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it.

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The list that we published in the
community is not like comprehensive.

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And so we encourage people to go out and
do their own research.

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And there are 1,000,
000 dance moves and there's no like

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canonical list of disco dance moves.

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It's a quite a open style and evolving
and, you know, disco is still alive,

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no doubt in some ways.

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And there's I'm sure new moves that are
being incorporated into modern disco.

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So yeah, great to see those.

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So just to call out a few notable
specific instances from the point by

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Calum Graves we had featuring very
prominently in that story aliens

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interpreting John Travolta's pose as
humanity's philosophical statements.

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So great to see the dance move,
and in that case,

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a literal dance move being very central
to the story by Catherine Cook.

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This is the dress, Anna,
the bump in that was breast cancer.

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So very, very sad,
very poignant story and a, you know,

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very clever interpretation of the prompt
by Matthew P Davis.

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The steel slide.

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We had the electric slide as an actual
playground slide that is struck by

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lightning there.

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Very, very unique,
very original story there and one that

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stood out to me for that reason by Hannah
Hellyer in I Am Mr Blopez,

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which the robot is a literal AI bot.

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And you know,
that one really kind of captures the AI

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chat fatigue that we're all kind of going
through.

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But I really loved Blow Pez as a as a
name, which the AI bought gets wrong.

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But of course, Mr Quote,
Blow Pez can't convince it otherwise.

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And then finally,
we had a couple of instances of the snap

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and that snap being a moment where a
character snaps and perhaps loses their

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****.

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So they might freak out.

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Slash freaks out.

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So yeah,
a lot of great response to these prompts.

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And yeah, although a lot of them were,
as I've said,

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very tightly linked to disco,
we did get some out there stories,

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ones that really didn't at all mention
disco and managed to fit all of these

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disco related themes into stories that
had absolutely nothing to do with disco.

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Both approaches are very valid and it's
always great to see a range.

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But Amanda,
tell us about your prompts and responses.

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All right,
I just want to start by saying that I

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issued a little bit of a challenge in the
community,

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which was to really just go out there,
just put yourself out on the page,

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like not censor yourself,
just kind of go a little bit crazy.

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And I'm proud to say that Team Amanda
really delivered maybe over delivered.

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I might say Team Amanda were already
crazy to start with.

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There is a little bit of a question mark
hanging over that.

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Yes, that's that's fair to say.

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But sometimes the stories that were
completely wild and unhinged really hit

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the mark and sometimes they didn't.

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And that's the case with any kind of
storytelling, right?

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Like you try to do something and
sometimes it lands and sometimes it

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doesn't.

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But what I was really enjoying was the
wild variety.

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So as I was reading, I'm like,
none of these stories are boring.

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You can maybe say some ticked a box or
failed to tick a box,

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but the last thing you would say is that
any of them were boring.

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And so I really did enjoy immersing
myself in this kind of wild mix of

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stories.

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And look, they weren't all crazy,
but there was a huge proportion,

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I have to say.

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And I was living for it.

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I really was.

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But I would say a little bit of a word of
caution there.

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I did issue you with that challenge.

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So thank you for rising to that challenge.

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But also,
you do need to think about being more

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than just a funny idea.

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It has to be a funny story, right?

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You can't just give me an idea like
that's interesting,

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but you need to develop that into a story.

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So we talk about the beginning,
middle and end.

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And you can listen to other episodes
where we talk about that in detail,

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but also a sense of character change,
conflict,

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all of these elements that come together
to make a story.

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And I think there were some entries that
didn't quite deliver on that.

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They had this really wildly unhinged,
fascinating premise,

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but that premise just wasn't fully
developed.

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So if you had a great idea and don't find
yourself on the long list,

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that might have had something to do with
it, you know, that's probably our fault.

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The prompts,
I know Dean would be ready to blame our

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prompts for this one where people are
sort of feeling pressured to kind of do

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something a little bit wild and a little
bit like completely left of centre and

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maybe forgetting some of those classic
elements of storytelling.

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And so I guess I would just say no matter
what your prompts are,

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you have to still come back to those
classic structural elements and make sure

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that they're there.

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I mean,
you can occasionally get away with

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missing some of them here and there,
but more often than not,

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you really need to have all of that there
for it to feel like a satisfying story.

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Yeah, I think that's important.

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I think the premise is always the
starting point,

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Like what inspires you to write the story?

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But then you need to think like,
how can I develop that into a story that

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goes somewhere and has a change to land
you with a satisfying conclusion at the

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end?

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That's it.

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It's about developing and it's about
going beyond that first initial step of a

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00:37:35.108 --> 00:37:35.680
great idea.

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And sometimes like it's,
it's a little bit like school work, right?

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You have to structure that.

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You have to turn it into something and
that requires a little bit more thought

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and planning.

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And just as an extension of that,
one thing that I mentioned on social

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media was that I was going to be coming
back to talk about Domino's.

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And I've talked about Domino's before,
but this is a central component of

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storytelling that I feel is often lacking
and which can lead to much stronger

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stories.

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And that is this idea basically of cause
and effect.

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So in your story, something happens,
and as a result of that,

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something happens next, right?

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And I was seeing this kind of consistent
theme of stories where things were

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happening,
but it was just a sequence of events.

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They weren't linked necessarily to each
other.

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They just happened one after the other
and we got to the end.

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00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:30.007
And there's a big difference between
events just happening and events which

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00:38:30.007 --> 00:38:33.676
cause other events to happen and action,
reaction, action,

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00:38:33.676 --> 00:38:36.600
reaction that might happen throughout a
story.

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So we call that Domino's.

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Like the first domino falls and it knocks
the next one and that knocks the next one.

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And they need to be related in a,
in a very critical and causal kind of way

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00:38:47.002 --> 00:38:49.240
for that story to feel satisfying.

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So I will say that that did feel a little
bit lacking in the stories this round,

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and I would have liked to have seen more
of that cause and effect.

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And to some extent,
I think that comes about as a result of

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this emphasis on that wild idea.

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And once you have that wild idea in mind
and it kind of just takes over to an

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extent and it kind of leads and you kind
of sometimes I think,

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00:39:10.816 --> 00:39:12.600
need to rein it in a little bit.

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You might need to trim some of it.

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You might need to take some of those
ideas and cut them completely and just

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stick with one central kind of wild idea
for that to really land as a satisfying

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story for the reader.

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So it becomes about editing then as well.

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Once you've got that wild idea and you
start to just let loose and let it all

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00:39:31.617 --> 00:39:31.840
out.

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Great.

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00:39:32.400 --> 00:39:35.520
That is absolutely 100% something that
you should do.

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00:39:35.560 --> 00:39:38.001
And while I talk about not censoring
yourself,

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00:39:38.001 --> 00:39:40.080
I don't mean don't edit yourself, right?

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00:39:40.080 --> 00:39:42.480
You can structure things in a cleaner way.

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00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:48.117
You can refine your idea to its essence
and make it feel more direct, clear,

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00:39:48.117 --> 00:39:50.680
and satisfying as a result of that.

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Another thing I mentioned,
and this was more in reference to your

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team stories, Ed,
Once I started venturing over to the dark

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00:39:57.409 --> 00:40:00.960
side and reading your top rated picks was
just something I noticed then.

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00:40:00.960 --> 00:40:04.534
And that's not to say it didn't also
occur in the Team Amanda stories,

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but that once we're getting to that long
list shortlist level and having to make

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00:40:08.612 --> 00:40:12.287
some of these tough decisions,
it's not enough to just be a really great

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00:40:12.287 --> 00:40:12.640
writer.

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And we say this all the time because.

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We will see this round,
writers who've won our competition before

dbd54381-62d0-47e4-8620-d05ac63fcbdb-1
00:40:18.897 --> 00:40:23.689
and who've won other competitions are not
making our long list in this particular

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00:40:23.689 --> 00:40:24.040
round.

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Meaning you're in great company if you
don't make the long list this particular

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00:40:28.061 --> 00:40:28.360
round.

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But also just sort of indicating that
sometimes it's just one thing.

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So you can be a great writer,
but one thing stands between you and the

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00:40:37.034 --> 00:40:39.440
long list or the shortlist or what have
you.

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And so I call those the fatal flaws.

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So where your story is otherwise really
strong and it ticks a lot of boxes,

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00:40:47.072 --> 00:40:52.435
but then it just fails on one element to
the extent that it makes the judges go,

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00:40:52.435 --> 00:40:53.760
OK, forget that one.

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And there's many things that could cause
a fatal flaw.

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And there might be a clunky ending is a
big one.

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I feel like you might love a story.

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00:41:00.880 --> 00:41:01.880
It's going really well.

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00:41:01.880 --> 00:41:05.717
And then the ending just kind of pulls
the rug out from under you and it's all

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00:41:05.717 --> 00:41:05.960
gone.

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00:41:06.440 --> 00:41:09.240
Issues with emotional resonance for me is
big.

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00:41:09.240 --> 00:41:12.483
So where I'm like,
this story's fun and it's like really

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00:41:12.483 --> 00:41:15.897
clever and silly,
but it doesn't feel real enough for me to

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00:41:15.897 --> 00:41:17.320
be able to latch onto it.

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00:41:17.320 --> 00:41:22.089
And so while I appreciate the fun idea,
I'm not having that much fun because it

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00:41:22.089 --> 00:41:23.520
doesn't feel real to me.

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00:41:23.600 --> 00:41:24.640
And that's a big one.

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00:41:24.640 --> 00:41:26.240
I think that I saw this round.

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00:41:26.760 --> 00:41:31.527
Another thing that can be a fatal flaw is
things that just as judges **** us off to

75cc78d6-9c38-4b9d-aaae-0c9695b427ec-1
00:41:31.527 --> 00:41:35.499
the point where we're like,
I don't want to upvote this story kind of

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00:41:35.499 --> 00:41:35.840
thing.

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00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:39.992
And I think you see that more in a peer
judged competition where people are

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00:41:39.992 --> 00:41:42.560
really bringing their personal biases
into it.

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00:41:42.560 --> 00:41:45.423
I try not to to a certain extent,
but there are times,

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00:41:45.423 --> 00:41:49.587
and I will call out the specific time
where if you have particular knowledge of

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00:41:49.587 --> 00:41:53.699
a situation and someone's kind of writing
about that situation from a place of

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00:41:53.699 --> 00:41:57.760
ignorance and you can see that ignorance,
that can be incredibly frustrating.

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00:41:57.760 --> 00:42:01.640
And that will kind of in your mind cancel
a story out.

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When we talk about all the time is a
story that's too internal or too interior.

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00:42:05.880 --> 00:42:09.607
Stories that are just a vignette,
so where we're just getting a snapshot,

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00:42:09.607 --> 00:42:13.385
but it's not actually a story where
something really meaningful or pivotal

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00:42:13.385 --> 00:42:17.565
happens or just in general stories where
there's not enough conflict or not really

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00:42:17.565 --> 00:42:18.120
any stakes.

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00:42:18.120 --> 00:42:21.320
And it's so it's therefore just kind of a
bit of a non event.

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00:42:21.640 --> 00:42:25.202
So all of these things are what I might
call fatal flaws that can stand between

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00:42:25.202 --> 00:42:26.360
people and a long listing.

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00:42:26.360 --> 00:42:30.560
And I guess all of that is just to say
that this was a tough round.

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00:42:30.560 --> 00:42:35.360
There were a lot of really well written
stories that didn't make the long list.

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And I guess it took that little bit extra
and that little bit more finesse to stand

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00:42:39.622 --> 00:42:40.320
out this time.

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00:42:40.640 --> 00:42:44.691
So you've mentioned quite a lot of
different like potential pitfalls for

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00:42:44.691 --> 00:42:45.080
people.

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00:42:45.080 --> 00:42:49.598
And I think it's probably hard for some
people to work out which one to latch on

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00:42:49.598 --> 00:42:51.160
to to elevate their writing.

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00:42:51.640 --> 00:42:54.987
So we'll just say, like,
I think one thing that's critically

7d30d679-f9de-48a6-91ec-4259a63818c6-1
00:42:54.987 --> 00:42:58.992
important is in the editing process,
especially once you have your first

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00:42:58.992 --> 00:43:01.681
draught,
just always be thinking about how could

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00:43:01.681 --> 00:43:05.851
how you can progress your story and
elevate your story and move like to the

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00:43:05.851 --> 00:43:06.400
next step.

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00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:10.440
If you're starting from a premise,
how can I go to the next level?

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How can I develop my story into a story
from a vignette?

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00:43:13.720 --> 00:43:18.603
One thing that stood out to me this round
that I noticed a lot of people doing is

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that they came in with a great premise
and then they like just lean into that

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00:43:23.249 --> 00:43:24.560
premise for the story.

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00:43:25.040 --> 00:43:28.286
And sometimes when you have like a wild,
crazy premise,

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00:43:28.286 --> 00:43:32.517
what you need to do is have an even
crazier place to take it or a normal

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00:43:32.517 --> 00:43:35.880
place to take it,
but you have to take it somewhere else.

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Like you can't,
you can't just keep hitting the premise

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00:43:38.459 --> 00:43:42.145
again and again until the end because
it's not satisfying because you're giving

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00:43:42.145 --> 00:43:44.080
the reader everything in the opening line.

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00:43:44.080 --> 00:43:44.640
Basically.

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00:43:44.640 --> 00:43:48.040
You have to kind of have that resolve and
have that work through to the end.

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00:43:48.040 --> 00:43:51.925
So like it's impossible to give like the
list of all the things they need to do

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00:43:51.925 --> 00:43:53.480
because there's too many things.

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00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:56.867
But I would say just as a general rule,
as you're going through in the editing

f8f2b8b2-ff7c-4bca-8904-0669c7a68671-1
00:43:56.867 --> 00:43:59.053
process,
think about what you have put on the page

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00:43:59.053 --> 00:44:00.640
and what you haven't put on the page.

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00:44:01.080 --> 00:44:05.040
How can you build that connection with
your reader to the character?

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00:44:05.400 --> 00:44:07.760
How can you progress the story?

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00:44:07.760 --> 00:44:09.560
How can you introduce change?

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00:44:09.960 --> 00:44:13.510
How can you make the the change that
happened, as you say,

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00:44:13.510 --> 00:44:16.760
follow from the character and from what
comes before?

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00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:19.320
How can you make that ending more
meaningful?

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00:44:19.680 --> 00:44:21.040
And it's a lot to consider.

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00:44:21.320 --> 00:44:23.400
And that's the difficulty.

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00:44:23.400 --> 00:44:28.889
And that's that's why so few stories like
rise to the top because you really have

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00:44:28.889 --> 00:44:29.760
to do it all.

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I think the number one issue that I saw
this round,

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00:44:33.526 --> 00:44:37.803
because they can be each round like
different issues that that seem to crop

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00:44:37.803 --> 00:44:38.760
up more and more.

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00:44:38.760 --> 00:44:44.835
And the one this round was this idea of
like the premise kind of being the thing

54841f47-5e36-4770-b6ce-01f3d85d5e1a-1
00:44:44.835 --> 00:44:50.160
that the author was leaning into at the
expense of a satisfying story.

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00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:55.605
So you've got a really fun or wild or
crazy or just clever, you know,

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00:44:55.605 --> 00:44:59.801
resonant idea,
but it's taking that idea and developing

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00:44:59.801 --> 00:45:00.999
it into a story.

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00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:04.420
And I do think that there were quite a
few authors who didn't quite do that

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00:45:04.420 --> 00:45:04.960
second step.

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00:45:04.960 --> 00:45:08.320
They came to us with something really
wild and fun.

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00:45:08.840 --> 00:45:11.960
And as I opened the store, I'm like, yes,
like you've got me.

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00:45:11.960 --> 00:45:12.720
I'm hooked.

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00:45:13.080 --> 00:45:14.600
And that is a huge thing, right?

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00:45:14.600 --> 00:45:16.200
That is not to be sniffed at.

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00:45:16.200 --> 00:45:20.400
If you've got the reader hooked
immediately, you are doing a lot right.

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00:45:20.960 --> 00:45:23.920
But now where are you going to take me
next?

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00:45:23.920 --> 00:45:26.573
You know,
are you taking me on a journey or have I

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00:45:26.573 --> 00:45:29.280
already arrived at my destination in in
sentence 1?

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00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:33.800
And I think what you need to do is take
us from there somewhere else.

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00:45:33.800 --> 00:45:35.960
And Ed,
you just said something quite insightful.

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00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:37.920
I think it's like you can't just have the
premise.

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00:45:37.920 --> 00:45:40.440
It has to like from there, where do we go?

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00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:43.497
And yes,
we might need to go somewhere even

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00:45:43.497 --> 00:45:46.828
crazier and Wilder,
because what's a climax if not like

764a479e-f76a-4a99-b7bf-8c48b51d6913-2
00:45:46.828 --> 00:45:50.160
really hitting the maximum point of of
that story idea?

724f5b26-a35a-4712-8d02-1fe1893f0f63-0
00:45:50.920 --> 00:45:53.877
Or we might, you know,
flip it on its head and take it some back

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00:45:53.877 --> 00:45:54.560
somewhere else.

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00:45:54.560 --> 00:45:57.200
Like there, there are options,
but you've got to take us somewhere.

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00:45:57.440 --> 00:45:59.600
We can't end in the same place that we
start.

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Absolutely.

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00:46:00.360 --> 00:46:03.560
At least not without some significant
change having occurred.

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00:46:03.560 --> 00:46:07.611
We do love a bit of circularity,
but we need to arrive back at the same

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00:46:07.611 --> 00:46:10.200
place with a new understanding of that
place.

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00:46:10.200 --> 00:46:13.880
We can't just sort of loop back with with
as if nothing has changed.

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00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:18.840
So I guess there are a lot of stories
that I really wanted to love.

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00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:21.400
I would say like I open and I'm like,
you've got me.

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00:46:21.800 --> 00:46:24.916
And then by the end,
I was left sort of really feeling like I

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00:46:24.916 --> 00:46:25.520
wanted more.

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00:46:25.840 --> 00:46:27.440
From a storytelling perspective.

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00:46:27.480 --> 00:46:29.040
You've given me a great idea.

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00:46:29.040 --> 00:46:31.120
You've given me something really funny or
fun.

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00:46:31.120 --> 00:46:35.360
I might have even laughed out loud and I
did frequently laugh out loud.

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00:46:35.920 --> 00:46:36.800
But then what?

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00:46:36.800 --> 00:46:38.880
What happens in the climax of this story?

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00:46:38.880 --> 00:46:41.837
So if that's you like,
go back and have a little look because I

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00:46:41.837 --> 00:46:45.534
think there were quite a few stories that
that might have been their fatal flaw

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that they didn't.

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00:46:46.320 --> 00:46:48.160
It didn't eventuate in a story.

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00:46:48.160 --> 00:46:51.160
It only ever really revolved around this
idea.

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00:46:51.560 --> 00:46:54.600
And I did mention Domino's in my social
media posts.

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00:46:54.600 --> 00:46:57.320
So Domino's to me,
it's the cause and effect.

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00:46:57.320 --> 00:47:00.705
Like something happens and that knocks
into the next plot element and that

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00:47:00.705 --> 00:47:02.240
knocks into the next plot element.

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00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:05.080
We need more than just a series of events.

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00:47:05.080 --> 00:47:07.640
We need the things to create a story.

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00:47:07.640 --> 00:47:11.040
We need change to occur as a result of
what happens in the story.

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00:47:11.040 --> 00:47:14.958
So all that being said,
I think that's probably my biggest

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00:47:14.958 --> 00:47:18.280
criticism for the Team Amanda stories
this round.

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00:47:18.280 --> 00:47:22.520
And I hope people understand that and,
and maybe can apply that next time around.

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00:47:22.880 --> 00:47:23.080
Yeah.

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00:47:23.080 --> 00:47:26.316
And I would say if you are unsure about
what we're saying here,

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00:47:26.316 --> 00:47:28.440
listen to some of our Dead Devil episodes.

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00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:29.880
We talk about this stuff all the time.

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00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:33.884
We go into detail on these stories so
that if you're unfamiliar with some of

5c57fd9d-5b73-428f-ba38-4ead88bbe5d9-1
00:47:33.884 --> 00:47:36.692
these ideas,
then TuneIn and we will talk about them,

5c57fd9d-5b73-428f-ba38-4ead88bbe5d9-2
00:47:36.692 --> 00:47:37.160
no doubt.

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00:47:37.480 --> 00:47:39.974
Absolutely,
but I'm just going to move into the

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prompts now and and some interesting
takes on the prompts.

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So my word this round was the word street.

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Now that was a much more actually limited
word than disco.

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There's not many words that contain the
word street.

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But of course,
St itself is pretty open and there's a

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lot of places that you can take that as a
general thought,

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I would say it pretty much faded into the
background almost all of the time.

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It's a bit of a nothing word if you don't
make much of it.

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00:48:05.640 --> 00:48:08.040
And so it was easy to kind of hide.

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00:48:08.640 --> 00:48:14.440
There were 81 stories that just used the
word St, like very much a generic St.

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00:48:14.440 --> 00:48:16.160
And to me, that's appropriate.

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I think you had some other challenges
with the other prompts and it's perfectly

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00:48:20.270 --> 00:48:22.840
OK to just let that one fade into the
background.

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00:48:23.240 --> 00:48:26.520
About 10 stories referred to St lights or
street lamps.

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00:48:26.520 --> 00:48:28.760
So that was another really popular usage.

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And we had a few famous,
very specific streets.

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So we had the Beale, we had Lombard St,
which is that really,

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00:48:35.352 --> 00:48:37.520
really steep one in San Francisco.

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And we had Oxford Street.

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And I don't actually know if it was our
our humble Oxford St here in Sydney or if

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00:48:45.214 --> 00:48:46.200
it was London.

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And my favourite of all, Sesame Street,
which was just one story.

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So we had a few famous ones there,
my favourite take and what I was hoping

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00:48:55.812 --> 00:49:01.271
to see, and this happened in four stories,
which was a reference to the Backstreet

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00:49:01.271 --> 00:49:01.600
Boys.

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00:49:01.920 --> 00:49:05.275
So I just want to call out Christy
Hartman, JD Hodley,

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00:49:05.275 --> 00:49:06.800
Ma Rose and Paige Bowden.

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00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:08.400
You are my fire.

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00:49:09.000 --> 00:49:11.640
You're my one desire and I appreciate you.

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00:49:11.640 --> 00:49:12.840
So thank you so much.

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There are, of course,
also a lot of idioms that include the

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word St.

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00:49:16.560 --> 00:49:21.573
And we had things like right up his St,
living on the street, streets ahead,

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00:49:21.573 --> 00:49:22.680
things like that.

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00:49:22.680 --> 00:49:28.717
They were mentioned and a few other words
incorporating St St wear, streetscape,

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00:49:28.717 --> 00:49:32.518
street smart,
street performer and one St sweeper,

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00:49:32.518 --> 00:49:34.680
which I think is fun as well.

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We had one story that referred to a birth
canal as a street,

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00:49:39.827 --> 00:49:42.320
which was an interesting take.

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00:49:42.640 --> 00:49:45.120
A little bit, I'll be honest,
a little bit jarring for me.

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00:49:45.480 --> 00:49:47.540
I wouldn't normally think of it as a
street,

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00:49:47.540 --> 00:49:49.280
but that's a matter of interpretation.

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And I'm just going to call out a few
other notable and original takes.

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We had Incohesion by Ivan Purcell,
Quality St, which is a brand of chocolate.

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00:50:02.560 --> 00:50:05.880
Yeah, so that's a fun usage in the story.

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00:50:05.880 --> 00:50:10.024
Just Another Day at Wycorp or Corporation
by Michael Davigi,

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00:50:10.024 --> 00:50:14.780
we had a monkey called Streeter,
which is such a monkey name when you

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00:50:14.780 --> 00:50:15.800
think about it.

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I don't know why,
but that's such a monkey name by Mari

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Mendoza.

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In the story one minute until the end of
the world we had Street Fighter.

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So the game Street Fighter,
which is the only game I could ever

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00:50:27.940 --> 00:50:29.200
really beat my brother at.

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00:50:29.200 --> 00:50:34.062
And that was just because I was really
good at like mashing the game and I just

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00:50:34.062 --> 00:50:37.101
learned the like 2 moves,
the 2 secret moves and,

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00:50:37.101 --> 00:50:38.560
and use them constantly.

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But also a special shout out to Kari
Marin in greetings ultimately work for me

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00:50:44.544 --> 00:50:49.520
who used the word St 9 times,
which I think was a record for this round.

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00:50:49.520 --> 00:50:50.720
So thank you for that.

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As for the action prompt,
now my action prompt this round was

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00:50:54.516 --> 00:50:56.760
breaking out as opposed to freaking out.

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00:50:57.320 --> 00:51:01.775
And as you might expect,
we had quite a few stories featuring

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00:51:01.775 --> 00:51:05.800
people breaking out of prisons or some
form of *******?

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00:51:06.200 --> 00:51:10.236
And we also had quite a few breaking out
of like a mental health facility as well,

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00:51:10.236 --> 00:51:11.160
was a common theme.

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00:51:11.680 --> 00:51:14.233
And for those stories,
I would just say like,

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00:51:14.233 --> 00:51:17.564
that's great as a plot,
but I also need to care about these

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00:51:17.564 --> 00:51:19.840
specific characters who are breaking out.

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00:51:19.840 --> 00:51:23.998
So you need to sort of set me up to kind
of have a little bit more character

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00:51:23.998 --> 00:51:28.320
development about why is this more than
just a typical gaolbreak kind of thing?

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00:51:28.320 --> 00:51:30.840
Like why do I care about these particular
characters?

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00:51:30.840 --> 00:51:33.160
Why am I barracking for them to break out?

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00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:36.240
We also had a lot of breaking out of
patterns of behaviour.

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00:51:36.240 --> 00:51:40.600
So whether that was like sort of stepping
up or speaking out for the first time.

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00:51:41.000 --> 00:51:43.883
Maybe they were breaking away from their
past,

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00:51:43.883 --> 00:51:48.485
like their parents and the way their
parents did things or breaking out of

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00:51:48.485 --> 00:51:53.455
some sort of rut that they were in or,
you know, removing shackles of some kind,

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00:51:53.455 --> 00:51:55.480
whether physical or metaphorical.

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00:51:56.120 --> 00:52:00.568
There were a surprising number of stories
about breaking out of the rat race,

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00:52:00.568 --> 00:52:02.280
you know, like corporate life.

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00:52:02.280 --> 00:52:06.000
And that's very relatable for me,
very triggering.

ccdfbd0f-02da-48bc-876b-43f38020844f-0
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:07.680
I needed a content warning for those.

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00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:13.400
We also had breaking out in pimples,
right?

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00:52:13.400 --> 00:52:18.674
Skin breakouts and a couple I will call
out in particular in the story on the

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00:52:18.674 --> 00:52:22.800
intersection of puberty and world
domination by Romany Jane.

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00:52:23.400 --> 00:52:27.080
We had not just acne, but snack me.

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00:52:27.160 --> 00:52:31.188
So yeah,
our point of view character in this story

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00:52:31.188 --> 00:52:33.400
was breaking out in pimples.

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00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:36.640
But when you squeeze the pimple,
like different foods would come out.

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00:52:36.640 --> 00:52:37.680
Oh, yes, that's one, right.

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00:52:39.280 --> 00:52:45.356
And it it gave me vibes of the Sam James
story that we received back in April 2024,

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00:52:45.356 --> 00:52:46.080
this snot.

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00:52:46.080 --> 00:52:48.736
So that story was called Everyone's a
Winner,

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00:52:48.736 --> 00:52:53.182
where there was just this never ending
supply of snot that eventually became

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00:52:53.182 --> 00:52:54.280
like a food source.

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00:52:54.480 --> 00:52:55.720
Yeah, which is alarming.

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00:52:55.720 --> 00:52:56.800
So a lot of issues of the world.

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00:52:56.800 --> 00:52:57.320
Yeah.

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00:52:57.320 --> 00:53:00.120
But anyway,
so that was obviously disgusting.

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00:53:00.200 --> 00:53:01.280
Romani, thank you.

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00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:06.620
But a very interesting take and keeping
it super weird with Kyla Meade in the

cf809084-43c3-46d9-bb81-fcbbfe58f303-1
00:53:06.620 --> 00:53:10.728
story What You Eat,
we had a character who was breaking out

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00:53:10.728 --> 00:53:12.440
in men's facial features.

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00:53:12.760 --> 00:53:16.600
So like a nose would just come out or
like an ear or whatever.

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00:53:17.280 --> 00:53:22.267
And that story reminded me of a of an
Edgar Allan Poe story that I read

814e9688-2ef4-40dd-b005-f4b0aaf19904-1
00:53:22.267 --> 00:53:27.462
recently for our other episode on Poe,
our regular inverted commas episode

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00:53:27.462 --> 00:53:28.640
called King Pest.

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00:53:28.800 --> 00:53:29.080
Yeah.

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00:53:29.080 --> 00:53:31.640
Where the characters all had these really
oversized.

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00:53:31.640 --> 00:53:34.947
Oh yeah,
freakishly large kind of parts of their

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00:53:34.947 --> 00:53:35.960
faces in there.

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00:53:35.960 --> 00:53:37.760
And it did have a little bit of a vibe.

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00:53:37.760 --> 00:53:40.040
So you're in good company there, Kyla.

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I just wanted to note that there were
quite a few stories that had more than

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one type of breaking out.

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00:53:45.880 --> 00:53:48.360
In some cases,
they were noting that in their

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00:53:48.360 --> 00:53:51.811
explanations in the form that they had
sort of just to be sure,

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00:53:51.811 --> 00:53:55.855
I've got a literal interpretation of
breaking out and something a bit more

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00:53:55.855 --> 00:53:56.880
figurative as well.

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00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:59.800
And to that, I would say, look,
you don't need to be sure with us.

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00:53:59.800 --> 00:54:00.800
Like just go for it.

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00:54:01.120 --> 00:54:05.789
That's why the explanation field is there
so that you can make sure we know and we

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00:54:05.789 --> 00:54:08.040
don't miss what what you were going for.

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00:54:08.240 --> 00:54:09.640
But look, you know, that's pretty common.

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00:54:09.640 --> 00:54:11.520
I guess that they would both coexist.

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00:54:11.520 --> 00:54:12.920
And so there's nothing wrong with that.

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00:54:12.920 --> 00:54:17.560
But I guess just to highlight that it's
not necessary to cover your bases.

7f607bb4-2df9-4fa4-a77e-430057a614d5-0
00:54:17.560 --> 00:54:20.200
Just go with the one and and go in with
confidence.

0a7e0fc6-6dc0-49a3-83b3-b06ac463dbb8-0
00:54:20.800 --> 00:54:25.707
But a couple more stories that I wanted
to call out for their interesting take on

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00:54:25.707 --> 00:54:30.256
the action prompt in Team Amanda were
Marissa Hanley's Tombstone Windmills,

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00:54:30.256 --> 00:54:34.864
which is actually just one example of a
story where we were merging both the

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00:54:34.864 --> 00:54:36.600
action prompt and the kicker.

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00:54:37.040 --> 00:54:43.240
So breaking out like a contagion of dance,
and in this case break dancing.

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So there were a couple of other stories
that did that as well,

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00:54:46.797 --> 00:54:49.000
and I'm sorry I didn't note those down.

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00:54:49.280 --> 00:54:51.560
However,
that was like a bit of a common theme.

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00:54:51.560 --> 00:54:55.400
So merging those two together,
I think is quite clever and it and it was

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00:54:55.400 --> 00:54:56.400
a fun idea as well.

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00:54:56.840 --> 00:55:01.643
And then finally in an afternoon swim or
two by Jessica Martel,

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00:55:01.643 --> 00:55:06.522
just simple but different mentioned
breaking out the good stuff,

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00:55:06.522 --> 00:55:08.999
which was ice cream in this case.

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00:55:09.040 --> 00:55:13.116
And I thought that was a nice little
usage of the idea of breaking out that we

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00:55:13.116 --> 00:55:14.200
didn't see elsewhere.

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00:55:14.200 --> 00:55:15.840
So well done, Jessica.

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00:55:16.600 --> 00:55:18.520
And so just moving into the kicker.

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00:55:18.880 --> 00:55:21.480
So of course,
my kicker was similar to yours, aunt.

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00:55:21.480 --> 00:55:25.400
And we had to prominently feature a break
dancing move.

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00:55:25.880 --> 00:55:29.995
I was actually really surprised by how
many people included literal break

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00:55:29.995 --> 00:55:30.440
dancing.

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00:55:30.440 --> 00:55:33.400
You said the same like how many people
actually had a disco setting?

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00:55:34.040 --> 00:55:36.320
And it kind of, I felt guilty in a way.

7cfd1e55-e6f0-4833-b0ad-2526eae99d06-0
00:55:36.320 --> 00:55:38.830
I was like, oh,
I hope you guys knew you didn't have to

7cfd1e55-e6f0-4833-b0ad-2526eae99d06-1
00:55:38.830 --> 00:55:40.400
do that because it was challenging.

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00:55:40.400 --> 00:55:43.205
You know, if you're like me,
you don't really know anything about

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00:55:43.205 --> 00:55:43.800
break dancing.

cd39a510-5fab-457b-8d8b-e251cfb62a53-0
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:45.600
It's not like I get it.

1bf9862e-a880-4cdb-b1a2-e0b26c7f8213-0
00:55:45.600 --> 00:55:48.880
I know what break dancing is,
but I have no personal experience.

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00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:53.733
And so it would be difficult for me to
write a resonant story about break

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00:55:53.733 --> 00:55:56.160
dancing when I I'm not in that world.

d3a0c955-ad65-45a6-bab6-34e3bfcc8e23-0
00:55:56.160 --> 00:56:00.669
And I think that was a challenge here for
some people who were getting into it and

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00:56:00.669 --> 00:56:03.059
doing the research and,
and I applaud that,

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00:56:03.059 --> 00:56:07.080
but maybe not quite hitting the mark in
terms of what felt real and true.

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00:56:07.640 --> 00:56:12.435
It's very difficult to write something
that feels true if you're not from that

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00:56:12.435 --> 00:56:12.800
world.

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00:56:12.800 --> 00:56:16.216
So I would, I would raise that,
I guess as the word of caution in that

5370f81b-5438-4133-95b3-7a20d3c33315-1
00:56:16.216 --> 00:56:19.200
case, you've got to find your way in,
I think to the prompts.

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00:56:19.200 --> 00:56:23.282
You've got to find the,
the thing that is that is you and through

5655f939-4add-4753-a3ce-6c2f21b8fb69-1
00:56:23.282 --> 00:56:28.293
your brainstorming activities like get to
that essence that feels really true to

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00:56:28.293 --> 00:56:29.840
you and communicate that.

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00:56:30.080 --> 00:56:33.024
The other thing is that in some stories,
the break dancing moves,

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00:56:33.024 --> 00:56:34.720
they weren't really serving the story.

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00:56:34.720 --> 00:56:36.960
They were kind of just sort of shoehorned
in.

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00:56:37.080 --> 00:56:38.680
And I think that's a problem.

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00:56:38.680 --> 00:56:42.280
You know, when we're reading you,
you get that jarring feeling of like,

04f3a7d2-5fad-4109-8e0f-a6b935a35c79-1
00:56:42.280 --> 00:56:44.480
wait,
why are they dancing all of a sudden?

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00:56:44.480 --> 00:56:46.680
Or it doesn't feel again, real.

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00:56:46.680 --> 00:56:49.882
Like if you're out in your normal life,
if someone started break dancing,

d0b38b40-5b95-46d3-9e9d-7407bb5704d3-1
00:56:49.882 --> 00:56:51.960
there'd be a bit more of a reaction about
that.

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00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:55.560
It wouldn't feel like a natural flowing
incident that would happen.

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00:56:55.560 --> 00:56:57.910
Yeah,
it's it's the same feedback I gave about

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00:56:57.910 --> 00:56:58.760
the freaking out.

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00:56:59.360 --> 00:56:59.600
MMM.

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00:56:59.760 --> 00:57:02.640
Is that it still has to flow from the
action.

be1f25f1-e8f5-46c8-99ed-f48aef1ce6c4-0
00:57:02.640 --> 00:57:05.906
And when we're reading these stories in
the context of a competition,

be1f25f1-e8f5-46c8-99ed-f48aef1ce6c4-1
00:57:05.906 --> 00:57:08.800
we we know what the prompts are and we
see what you're doing.

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00:57:08.920 --> 00:57:09.160
Yeah.

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00:57:09.160 --> 00:57:11.760
But it still does have to flow from the
action.

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00:57:11.760 --> 00:57:12.000
Yeah.

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00:57:12.000 --> 00:57:12.440
That's it.

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00:57:12.440 --> 00:57:12.600
You.

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00:57:12.720 --> 00:57:14.680
I guess it's got to feel cohesive.

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00:57:14.920 --> 00:57:19.152
So the dancing has to feel like a logical
and rational and meaningful and

8ec6b0f8-e251-4176-9f06-b9edfc6c405c-1
00:57:19.152 --> 00:57:23.328
purposeful part of this story,
not just something that happens randomly,

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00:57:23.328 --> 00:57:26.760
like it would have happened even if that
wasn't the prompt.

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00:57:26.880 --> 00:57:28.040
Yeah, exactly.

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00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:31.001
And I have to say,
there were quite a few cases where it

60b2d9c9-0438-4500-a61f-ff5f1c63d0c5-1
00:57:31.001 --> 00:57:31.960
didn't feel that way.

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00:57:31.960 --> 00:57:35.000
It felt like, hang on,
why are they suddenly dancing?

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00:57:35.520 --> 00:57:38.480
And you've got to keep also that tone,
the story's tone.

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00:57:38.480 --> 00:57:43.158
And if you're in a really serious place
and then suddenly people start break

339bfe9f-9d85-4f70-a47e-0eb303c46e68-1
00:57:43.158 --> 00:57:45.710
dancing,
like there's got to be kind of a

339bfe9f-9d85-4f70-a47e-0eb303c46e68-2
00:57:45.710 --> 00:57:50.571
connecting element there that makes that
work that can be difficult to do and a

339bfe9f-9d85-4f70-a47e-0eb303c46e68-3
00:57:50.571 --> 00:57:55.188
reminder that you didn't necessarily have
to include literal break dancing,

339bfe9f-9d85-4f70-a47e-0eb303c46e68-4
00:57:55.188 --> 00:57:57.679
so you didn't need to force it that hard.

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00:57:57.680 --> 00:57:59.800
But I don't want to be too critical here.

56f0c895-5eb8-44f6-9f24-552a3d1fc1ba-0
00:57:59.800 --> 00:58:03.276
I guess I just want to be very clear for
those of you who loved your story and are

56f0c895-5eb8-44f6-9f24-552a3d1fc1ba-1
00:58:03.276 --> 00:58:05.120
wondering why it didn't make the long
list.

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00:58:05.120 --> 00:58:09.400
That might have been a reason that we
just found it didn't quite gel for us.

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00:58:09.880 --> 00:58:14.683
Another way the kicker was used was using
some of those break dancing move names to

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00:58:14.683 --> 00:58:17.600
describe people's movements in a
metaphorical way.

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00:58:17.920 --> 00:58:21.120
So you had, in your case, like hustling,
for example.

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00:58:21.120 --> 00:58:24.240
And the same was true here in the break
dancing team.

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00:58:24.920 --> 00:58:31.468
And then of course we also had the usage
of the break dancing move names as just

c04c4b8f-d430-4b5f-97b4-15305e127dd9-1
00:58:31.468 --> 00:58:32.600
like the idea.

1d3d72a5-a6a9-41cf-9d78-0d8687cea7dc-0
00:58:32.600 --> 00:58:36.160
And there were quite a few interesting
breakdance move names.

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00:58:36.160 --> 00:58:38.600
And I did put some of them in my post on
the community.

f90298e0-cad9-43f6-878d-93be926c1b9a-0
00:58:38.600 --> 00:58:43.194
But like the Corkscrew, the windmill,
air baby, you know, all of these things,

f90298e0-cad9-43f6-878d-93be926c1b9a-1
00:58:43.194 --> 00:58:47.149
like the kind of fun names,
but you don't have to make it the dance

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00:58:47.149 --> 00:58:47.440
move.

422b3c4d-cc43-4a5c-a12f-0ee70351c6e2-0
00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:50.000
You can go just down some completely
different path.

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00:58:50.000 --> 00:58:51.280
And plenty of people did that.

9c065307-e801-46b8-8ccc-4f176a492284-0
00:58:51.280 --> 00:58:54.697
And if I'm thinking about how I would
have handled this particular prompt,

9c065307-e801-46b8-8ccc-4f176a492284-1
00:58:54.697 --> 00:58:58.160
and I always come in after the fact,
I think, well, what would I have done?

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00:58:58.160 --> 00:59:02.157
And it probably would have been something
like that parachute, you know,

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00:59:02.157 --> 00:59:03.800
what does that open up for me?

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00:59:03.800 --> 00:59:08.283
And then I've got a story all about that
that has nothing to do with break dancing

4e90a353-a9f0-42b1-b056-de5bbb6bf2ec-1
00:59:08.283 --> 00:59:11.631
at all, to be honest,
is probably how I would have approached

4e90a353-a9f0-42b1-b056-de5bbb6bf2ec-2
00:59:11.631 --> 00:59:12.280
that prompt.

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00:59:12.280 --> 00:59:13.920
That's not to say that's the correct way.

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00:59:13.920 --> 00:59:15.240
That's just like, my way.

569c60b0-ed10-4e45-b08b-79bcefc85a4a-0
00:59:15.600 --> 00:59:17.320
But I think there was a lot of scope
there.

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00:59:17.320 --> 00:59:18.880
Yeah, I would have done the same, I think.

e8de64a3-09a1-4b9e-89f1-adbc4e334b66-0
00:59:19.120 --> 00:59:22.080
Just choose one of those words as
inspiration, right?

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00:59:22.080 --> 00:59:26.588
Not as a dance move,
but just as a an idea, place, action,

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00:59:26.588 --> 00:59:28.040
whatever it may be.

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00:59:28.200 --> 00:59:30.600
And I say that because I'm not a break
dancer, right?

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00:59:30.600 --> 00:59:33.960
And so it would have felt pretty
unnatural for me to include break dancing.

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00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:39.846
So a couple of notable instances of the
usage of the kicker in Team Amanda

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00:59:39.846 --> 00:59:44.640
included Penny a Nichols,
who had a reference to a helicopter mum.

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00:59:45.080 --> 00:59:47.295
So helicopter being the break dancing
move,

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00:59:47.295 --> 00:59:50.920
but then taking that to a place that I
suppose felt resonant for Penny.

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00:59:50.920 --> 00:59:52.760
So that I think that was a smart move.

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00:59:53.520 --> 00:59:56.480
There are a lot of worms in Team Amanda.

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00:59:56.800 --> 01:00:01.240
And of course the meme of would you still
love me if I were a worm?

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01:00:01.480 --> 01:00:05.000
And Ed knows that I love to use that,
that little question.

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01:00:05.000 --> 01:00:06.680
And so that resonated with me.

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01:00:06.680 --> 01:00:07.560
I did enjoy that.

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01:00:07.560 --> 01:00:10.770
But of course,
we also had the worm as a move and we saw

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01:00:10.770 --> 01:00:11.840
that a bit as well.

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01:00:12.000 --> 01:00:16.160
Another evocative break dancing move name
is the dead cat.

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01:00:16.280 --> 01:00:21.620
And so we had unfortunately,
a few felines pass away over on Team

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01:00:21.620 --> 01:00:23.400
Amanda and just as Ed.

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01:00:23.520 --> 01:00:25.960
Had a lot of hustling on Team Amanda.

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01:00:25.960 --> 01:00:27.320
We had a lot of shuffling.

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01:00:27.680 --> 01:00:32.289
So and I think again, appropriate,
if you need that move to kind of work

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01:00:32.289 --> 01:00:34.120
into the background, you can.

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01:00:34.120 --> 01:00:38.509
So it just goes to show there's a huge
scope for creativity with all of those

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01:00:38.509 --> 01:00:38.960
prompts.

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01:00:39.440 --> 01:00:44.345
So a couple of stories I wanted to call
out in particular included More Than a

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01:00:44.345 --> 01:00:48.319
Whisper by Louise Walton,
which was an incredibly sad and quite

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01:00:48.319 --> 01:00:51.734
visceral and and emotional story about
pregnancy loss,

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01:00:51.734 --> 01:00:56.640
where the term air baby was used to
describe these babies that are never born.

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01:00:56.760 --> 01:01:02.053
I thought that was quite a lovely usage
really of that particular break dancing

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01:01:02.053 --> 01:01:05.096
move,
a surprising one in Don't Move by Elder

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01:01:05.096 --> 01:01:05.560
Orosco.

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01:01:05.600 --> 01:01:09.645
We had another story about a plague,
a dancing plague,

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01:01:09.645 --> 01:01:12.000
and that's two winners in a row.

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They're two former winners.

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01:01:13.320 --> 01:01:16.529
So, you know,
coming in with coming in hot with strong

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01:01:16.529 --> 01:01:16.880
ideas.

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01:01:17.320 --> 01:01:19.920
And then we had two stories that I just
want to call out.

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01:01:19.920 --> 01:01:25.155
We had The Heist by Jeff Gore and we had
for Laughter, for Tears, for Madness,

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01:01:25.155 --> 01:01:28.800
for Fears, for Screams,
for Dreams by Avril Robertson.

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01:01:29.160 --> 01:01:34.463
And both of those stories basically
packed in as many break dancing move

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01:01:34.463 --> 01:01:36.280
references as they could.

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01:01:36.640 --> 01:01:41.240
And I have to say they did a pretty good
job of squeezing them all in there.

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01:01:41.240 --> 01:01:45.400
So thank you for taking such a confident
and bold take.

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01:01:45.720 --> 01:01:48.287
But yeah,
I have to say I was really proud of Team

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01:01:48.287 --> 01:01:48.640
Amanda.

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01:01:48.640 --> 01:01:54.406
I was particularly proud of those of you
who I guess took my suggestion of letting

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01:01:54.406 --> 01:01:57.880
your freak flag fly and not censoring
yourselves.

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01:01:58.120 --> 01:02:01.736
It did make for a particularly
interesting batch of stories and I really

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01:02:01.736 --> 01:02:02.480
appreciated it.

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01:02:02.880 --> 01:02:03.240
Fantastic.

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So before we get to the long list,
which is what everyone's waiting for,

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01:02:07.483 --> 01:02:11.320
let's call out a few of our favourite
lines and favourite titles.

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01:02:11.360 --> 01:02:15.157
And I think I'll just do a few, you know,
just in the interest of time,

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01:02:15.157 --> 01:02:17.320
let's call out a couple favourite titles.

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01:02:17.400 --> 01:02:22.840
Look, you know me,
my brow is on the floor at times.

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01:02:23.480 --> 01:02:26.280
Sometimes I'm highbrow,
a lot of the time I'm lowbrow.

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01:02:26.400 --> 01:02:33.265
So here are some titles that stood out to
me from Louise Sutherland Rode Hard and

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01:02:33.265 --> 01:02:37.200
Put Away Oh wow, coming in hot,
Coming in hot.

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01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:40.640
Panic at the clinic, which I enjoyed.

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01:02:40.640 --> 01:02:42.920
I like the subversion panic at the disco.

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01:02:42.920 --> 01:02:47.200
Interesting, because the theme was disco,
but you removed the disco.

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01:02:47.760 --> 01:02:48.280
The title.

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01:02:48.400 --> 01:02:50.500
Yeah,
going that one step further beyond the

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01:02:50.500 --> 01:02:52.600
first obvious choice, exactly,
which I like.

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01:02:52.600 --> 01:02:56.440
I like the subversion of a cliche from
Libby Bramble.

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01:02:56.440 --> 01:03:00.367
You don't need to be a goth to want to
Die,

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01:03:00.367 --> 01:03:05.455
which I feel is a very evocative title
from Tom Brodkin,

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01:03:05.455 --> 01:03:12.240
who knows the key to my heart with his
story titled **** Farts and a Penis.

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01:03:12.440 --> 01:03:13.120
Thank you, Tom.

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01:03:15.680 --> 01:03:21.242
An interesting one from Morgan Kostelnik,
which was an eye for an eye is the is the

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01:03:21.242 --> 01:03:21.640
title.

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01:03:21.640 --> 01:03:26.703
And this is a story about a person who
wants revenge on a blue eyed person and

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01:03:26.703 --> 01:03:31.831
goes back in time to kill like the most
recent common ancestor of all blue eyed

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01:03:31.831 --> 01:03:36.446
people in order to get revenge,
which is a bit over the top I feel like

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01:03:36.446 --> 01:03:37.600
as far as revenge.

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01:03:37.600 --> 01:03:39.600
Hello, have you ever met a scorned woman?

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01:03:40.240 --> 01:03:40.840
Are you real?

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01:03:41.600 --> 01:03:42.120
That's true.

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01:03:43.040 --> 01:03:45.320
I was really loving the Team Amanda
titles.

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01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:47.520
I'm just gonna shout a few out now.

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01:03:47.520 --> 01:03:53.530
So I'm gonna say the one that made me
absolutely bolt to read the story was

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01:03:53.530 --> 01:03:54.400
Poor Eddie.

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01:03:54.880 --> 01:03:57.000
And that was by Douglas McAfee.

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01:03:57.760 --> 01:03:58.880
So thank you for that one.

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01:03:58.880 --> 01:03:59.720
That was good fun.

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01:03:59.960 --> 01:04:02.040
That was about a dead goldfish called
Eddie.

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01:04:02.320 --> 01:04:03.400
Oh, yes, I remember that one.

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01:04:04.160 --> 01:04:07.160
We had two stories with the same title on
Team Amanda.

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01:04:07.160 --> 01:04:11.480
So both Jenny E and Hannah Thomas came up
with a story called The Worm.

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01:04:12.160 --> 01:04:13.360
So thank you for those.

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01:04:13.360 --> 01:04:16.560
And Michael Stone took it one step
further with the story.

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01:04:16.600 --> 01:04:19.320
Babe,
would you still love me if I were a worm?

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01:04:19.680 --> 01:04:23.200
And so you're you're speaking directly to
my heart there, Michael.

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01:04:23.200 --> 01:04:24.400
And I appreciate that.

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01:04:24.680 --> 01:04:26.960
That was a very wild story about it.

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01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:27.440
A worm.

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01:04:27.720 --> 01:04:29.880
It was a reincarnation story.

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01:04:29.880 --> 01:04:31.360
Yeah, it was really, wasn't it?

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01:04:32.120 --> 01:04:37.022
From Julia Knuth, we had clueless,
and that's spelt CLEWLE double S,

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01:04:37.022 --> 01:04:42.849
which wasn't a word I was familiar with,
But a clue is like a the collective noun

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01:04:42.849 --> 01:04:43.560
for worms.

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01:04:43.680 --> 01:04:44.120
Oh, really?

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01:04:44.120 --> 01:04:44.560
Yeah.

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01:04:44.560 --> 01:04:49.200
So we got quite a few there in the worm
territory, so thank you for that.

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01:04:49.400 --> 01:04:53.540
From Brandon Woo, We had,
if you think a girl's name is Cherry,

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01:04:53.540 --> 01:04:56.840
she's probably a pornstar,
which I just found fun.

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01:04:56.840 --> 01:04:59.720
I was like,
is that very philosophical kind of year

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01:04:59.720 --> 01:05:00.440
of the world?

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01:05:01.240 --> 01:05:05.161
From Lisa Vitale,
we had Amy and Abby go day drinking in

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01:05:05.161 --> 01:05:06.400
the Hunter Valley.

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01:05:06.880 --> 01:05:09.784
And I feel Amy,
Abby and Amanda could all go day drinking

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01:05:09.784 --> 01:05:12.840
together in the Hunter Valley and we'd
all have a good time.

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01:05:13.040 --> 01:05:15.760
And then I just want to call out some
that were just evocative.

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01:05:15.760 --> 01:05:18.251
So, you know,
when you read a title and you're just

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01:05:18.251 --> 01:05:19.880
like, oh, what's that about South?

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01:05:20.000 --> 01:05:23.640
From Jennifer Ann,
we had be like the dandelion.

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01:05:23.760 --> 01:05:24.600
What does that mean?

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01:05:24.600 --> 01:05:25.840
You have to read to find out.

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01:05:26.240 --> 01:05:30.984
From Leah Kinnenmont,
we had Is life an existential crisis or

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01:05:30.984 --> 01:05:33.280
is an existential crisis life?

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01:05:34.200 --> 01:05:36.400
And that's a question I asked myself on
the daily.

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01:05:36.960 --> 01:05:38.120
From Kelly Johnson.

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01:05:38.120 --> 01:05:41.760
We had a little performative grief to
atone for my sins.

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01:05:42.080 --> 01:05:44.680
And I just love the idea of performative
grief.

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01:05:44.800 --> 01:05:46.360
That must be a thing.

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01:05:46.360 --> 01:05:49.630
And yeah,
And I was excited to read where that was

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01:05:49.630 --> 01:05:50.720
going to take me.

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01:05:50.920 --> 01:05:56.108
From Ellen Arwen Tristram,
we have I Only Believe in Prime Numbers,

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01:05:56.108 --> 01:06:00.000
which which has a vibe of like,
birds aren't real.

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01:06:00.160 --> 01:06:01.560
Yeah, it really does.

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01:06:01.560 --> 01:06:03.480
But that was that was quite a cool story.

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01:06:03.480 --> 01:06:05.840
I really vibed with the protagonist in
that one.

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01:06:06.520 --> 01:06:09.461
From Jade and Christopher,
we have Mama Always said,

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01:06:09.461 --> 01:06:13.622
and I just want to give a shout out to
John and Justin from the Writing in

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01:06:13.622 --> 01:06:16.952
Progress podcast,
who sort of talk about how if you start a

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01:06:16.952 --> 01:06:20.670
story with Mama Always said,
then it's going to like resonate with

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01:06:20.670 --> 01:06:24.000
people and you're going to do really well
in a competition.

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01:06:24.000 --> 01:06:26.120
So that title made me think of them.

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01:06:26.400 --> 01:06:30.001
From Natalie Busco,
we had What Cassandra Four Saw,

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01:06:30.001 --> 01:06:35.472
which called back a previous story,
a previous entry to They're Not Quite Yes,

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01:06:35.472 --> 01:06:40.320
from Alicia Rourke in October 2024,
who delivered What Cassandra Saw.

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01:06:40.800 --> 01:06:42.360
So this is like, is this the prequel?

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01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:49.465
And then finally,
I would be remiss of me not to mention

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01:06:49.465 --> 01:06:53.840
Bernie Rushton's IYPYP or if you Poe,
you Poe.

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01:06:55.400 --> 01:06:56.720
So thank you, Bernie.

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01:06:57.080 --> 01:06:58.920
That absolutely got my attention.

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01:06:59.240 --> 01:06:59.840
Very cool.

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01:06:59.840 --> 01:07:02.400
Well, I'm going to call out a few lines.

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01:07:02.400 --> 01:07:08.751
The first one comes from Andy Blakely
Sterling and it's the opening line to

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01:07:08.751 --> 01:07:12.680
metamorphosis,
which is a great title as well.

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01:07:13.080 --> 01:07:17.912
Mention and that line is I always thought
Kafka was a bit dramatic,

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01:07:17.912 --> 01:07:19.120
but I get it now.

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01:07:19.400 --> 01:07:24.539
And this is a story of a of a
metamorphosis and implied maybe by the

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01:07:24.539 --> 01:07:25.880
title little clap.

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01:07:25.880 --> 01:07:30.296
A bit of word play there,
but also a great opening line that grabs

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01:07:30.296 --> 01:07:35.240
you and makes you want to read on by
Tommy Baker in the story Jive Walken.

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01:07:35.840 --> 01:07:39.480
At first I was afraid I was petrified.

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01:07:40.080 --> 01:07:44.520
Nobody wants to discover they have
Tourette's, which I think is great.

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01:07:44.600 --> 01:07:45.880
Like another subversion.

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01:07:45.880 --> 01:07:47.240
I really, I love subversion.

dfe415b0-47b7-4bf9-b1ef-c8e155a585e8-0
01:07:47.240 --> 01:07:50.373
You know,
I love when you expect one thing and you

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01:07:50.373 --> 01:07:51.480
get another thing.

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01:07:51.600 --> 01:07:52.680
There you go everyone.

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01:07:52.680 --> 01:07:54.080
That's your way to Ed's heart.

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01:07:54.320 --> 01:07:57.680
And finally from Ivy Craven in the story
Crown Jewel.

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01:07:57.680 --> 01:08:01.560
And once again,
let's drop the brow out of the floor.

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01:08:01.800 --> 01:08:03.040
And the opening line is.

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01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:08.080
I looked frantically from the discoloured
penis in my hand to the display folder of

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01:08:08.080 --> 01:08:10.480
reference images on my lap and back again.

664867e2-73a0-4f3b-82a8-27e8b5078e1b-0
01:08:10.600 --> 01:08:14.760
Page after page of diseased little *****
and not a match to be found.

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01:08:15.880 --> 01:08:18.658
So look,
there's something to be said for just

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01:08:18.658 --> 01:08:22.974
grabbing my attention, hitting me,
hitting me with some ***** and seeing

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01:08:22.974 --> 01:08:23.920
where things go.

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01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:26.640
Keep that in mind.

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01:08:27.440 --> 01:08:28.640
Now I've got a few more.

d988a67f-6323-49f8-acf6-163d25deae6e-0
01:08:28.720 --> 01:08:32.780
So, from Team Amanda,
we had Madeleine W in the story and

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01:08:32.780 --> 01:08:36.280
Unorthodox Guide to Survival in the 21st
Century.

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01:08:36.840 --> 01:08:41.161
The day Annie found herself stopping in
the middle of traffic was the day she

30ca2207-7d39-46af-9794-7a5f3c281469-1
01:08:41.161 --> 01:08:45.040
realised she craved death the same way
pregnant women craved Pickles.

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01:08:47.320 --> 01:08:52.440
Which is voraciously, I feel,
from The Space Between by Nicola Bell.

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01:08:52.880 --> 01:08:57.267
Her gaze drops from mine and I want to
break her ******* fingers because at

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01:08:57.267 --> 01:08:58.480
least that's fixable.

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01:08:59.160 --> 01:09:00.120
And that's quite dramatic.

7eabdf67-ec9e-4a96-999f-f6e847618a9b-0
01:09:00.120 --> 01:09:03.730
That's actually a story about two sisters
who are, I guess,

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01:09:03.730 --> 01:09:07.280
confronting grief and trying to find a
way to communicate.

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01:09:07.680 --> 01:09:11.200
And I just loved how dramatic that was.

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01:09:11.200 --> 01:09:14.320
I felt that was quite resonant from the
story.

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01:09:14.320 --> 01:09:17.160
And I'm Still Silent by Sarah Kennedy.

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01:09:17.400 --> 01:09:18.440
We had the lines.

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01:09:19.040 --> 01:09:20.520
They've been down there too long.

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01:09:20.560 --> 01:09:23.040
I listen at the door,
but their voices are muffled.

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01:09:23.240 --> 01:09:24.920
What if they've moved past talking?

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01:09:25.280 --> 01:09:28.360
What if I went downstairs in his shirt
and nothing else?

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01:09:28.680 --> 01:09:31.527
What if I climbed out the window,
ran through the street,

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01:09:31.527 --> 01:09:33.000
liberated and bare, screaming?

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01:09:33.000 --> 01:09:35.280
Look at me, I'm here, I exist.

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01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:36.920
Then I'd be seen.

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01:09:37.440 --> 01:09:38.280
But I don't.

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01:09:38.800 --> 01:09:42.285
And that's a story about the other woman,
I suppose,

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01:09:42.285 --> 01:09:46.560
hiding upstairs while the husband
confronts the wife downstairs.

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01:09:47.160 --> 01:09:51.889
And it was nice to get that little
insight into that character's mind from

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01:09:51.889 --> 01:09:52.520
the story.

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01:09:52.520 --> 01:09:56.160
I only believe in Prime Numbers by Ellen
Arwen Tristram.

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01:09:56.160 --> 01:10:01.120
We had the line Miriam, that woman again,
her predictable orbit.

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01:10:01.480 --> 01:10:06.360
I'm her son, her five minute day,
and that was so evocative to me.

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01:10:06.360 --> 01:10:08.990
I don't know if this is a phrase that's
come elsewhere,

8f0c8f28-911c-4a97-9d07-d9f5f8f883fb-1
01:10:08.990 --> 01:10:11.574
it's the first time I've ever read
anything like that,

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01:10:11.574 --> 01:10:15.144
but the idea that she's orbiting you
every 5 minutes and you're the son and

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01:10:15.144 --> 01:10:18.056
she just keeps coming back around and
around every 5 minutes,

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01:10:18.056 --> 01:10:19.560
I thought that was quite clever.

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01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:23.360
From Princess in a Headspin by TJ
Burgoyne.

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01:10:23.440 --> 01:10:28.560
We had helicopter sweep into windmills
and everything hurts, but who cares?

1c0657f9-6bf3-42b1-8b65-f6a03c8f39d8-0
01:10:28.920 --> 01:10:31.480
I used to dream of turning the pirouette
on its head.

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01:10:31.600 --> 01:10:36.320
The audience spins and I see Mum in the
front row in this upside down world.

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01:10:36.640 --> 01:10:39.240
She smiles and I love this idea.

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01:10:39.240 --> 01:10:42.480
So this is a character who's on stage and
they're doing a head spin,

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01:10:42.480 --> 01:10:43.560
so they're upside down.

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01:10:43.880 --> 01:10:48.638
While they're upside down, Mum's smiling,
which implies that Mum is actually, yes,

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01:10:48.638 --> 01:10:49.040
Frowny.

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01:10:49.040 --> 01:10:50.200
That's a closing line, right?

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01:10:50.200 --> 01:10:50.360
To the.

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01:10:51.040 --> 01:10:51.560
Yeah.

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01:10:51.560 --> 01:10:52.920
And, you know, it's quite.

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01:10:53.280 --> 01:10:53.520
Yeah.

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01:10:53.520 --> 01:10:54.960
Very impactful, very resonant.

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01:10:54.960 --> 01:10:57.663
This idea of seeking your parents
approval,

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01:10:57.663 --> 01:11:02.640
I guess wanting it so bad you imagine
it's there in Jive walking by Tommy Baker.

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01:11:03.000 --> 01:11:07.294
I just love this little tiny little bit
of characterisation about a particular

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01:11:07.294 --> 01:11:11.480
character where he says he's a guy who
brings a pillow on a one hour flight.

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01:11:11.480 --> 01:11:11.600
Yeah.

ee9cf4b3-8827-4f03-a04e-6a5822487bd6-0
01:11:13.120 --> 01:11:16.640
I don't know exactly what that's implying,
but I love it.

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01:11:17.040 --> 01:11:18.400
I bring a pillow on a one hour flight.

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01:11:18.400 --> 01:11:19.040
Would you?

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01:11:19.160 --> 01:11:20.160
What would you do with that?

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01:11:20.480 --> 01:11:23.000
I'd have an app by now, a flight.

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01:11:23.000 --> 01:11:24.240
So that's Sydney to Melbourne.

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01:11:24.240 --> 01:11:25.680
That's a Sydney to Melbourne flight.

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01:11:25.680 --> 01:11:28.360
I used to grab a pillow on my commute to
work.

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01:11:28.360 --> 01:11:30.080
Like it's, it's an hour, but you know.

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01:11:30.160 --> 01:11:32.160
OK, so you are the guy in this story.

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01:11:32.160 --> 01:11:32.760
I'm the guy.

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01:11:32.880 --> 01:11:33.440
Alright.

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01:11:33.480 --> 01:11:35.520
Wow, OK, I've learned something about you.

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01:11:36.120 --> 01:11:40.000
Speaking about You from Poor Eddie by
Douglas McCabe.

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01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:42.840
The lines for spontaneity.

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01:11:42.840 --> 01:11:47.913
I decided to dance as if nobody was
watching and I dazzled with the Corkscrew,

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01:11:47.913 --> 01:11:49.840
the baby freeze, the backspin.

1a5c1aa1-2c82-4db5-bda4-624b9bba3f9d-0
01:11:50.160 --> 01:11:52.680
I was really grooving, wild and free.

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01:11:53.040 --> 01:11:56.040
Unfortunately I was driving myself to
hospital at the time.

af7cec8f-a9e1-4d33-b36c-01b4f48ca034-0
01:11:58.280 --> 01:12:00.920
That was a completely ridiculous,
unhinged story.

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01:12:00.920 --> 01:12:05.640
So that line fit perfectly from What You
Eat by Kyla Meade.

06dccdc4-b8fc-4ccd-9606-f8e5be1cb7fb-0
01:12:05.720 --> 01:12:08.800
We had that scared Janet off eating men
for a while.

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01:12:08.960 --> 01:12:12.320
She intended for good,
but it's never easy to stick to a diet.

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01:12:14.760 --> 01:12:20.672
From Beatbox Genesis by Dead Carcosa and
Hello to Dead Carcosa we had in the

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01:12:20.672 --> 01:12:21.440
beginning.

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01:12:21.440 --> 01:12:23.920
There was grey and silent Infinity.

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01:12:24.160 --> 01:12:28.200
The concrete and dust of dead universes
lay ruined and forgotten.

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01:12:28.440 --> 01:12:32.480
Darkness covered an endless crumbling web
of walls and streets.

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01:12:32.880 --> 01:12:37.120
The bee God beheld all this from nowhere
and saw that it was wack.

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01:12:37.720 --> 01:12:39.760
Nothing good could come from nothing.

4d5cb276-3195-4714-9406-d1b9bb31414a-0
01:12:41.560 --> 01:12:44.840
And there is actually a disco equivalent
of that story.

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01:12:44.840 --> 01:12:46.120
Over on Team Ed.

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01:12:46.120 --> 01:12:52.560
We had two Genesis stories,
one for beatboxing and one for disco.

af0d1654-2077-4f8b-84d4-795b394a4401-0
01:12:52.560 --> 01:12:56.400
So quite fascinating how two people can
go on the same train of thought.

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01:12:56.840 --> 01:13:00.055
But finally, and look,
I'm not actually going to name the author

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01:13:00.055 --> 01:13:04.063
or the story title for this one and I'm
not even going to call out any favourite

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01:13:04.063 --> 01:13:04.360
lines.

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01:13:04.600 --> 01:13:10.318
What I will say is that this particular
story was full of favourite lines for me

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01:13:10.318 --> 01:13:15.613
and it made the shortlist and in fact it
was our second place story on the

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01:13:15.613 --> 01:13:16.320
shortlist.

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01:13:16.320 --> 01:13:20.201
So I'll just leave it at that because
we'll all get to hear those in the next

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01:13:20.201 --> 01:13:20.600
episode.

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01:13:20.600 --> 01:13:22.760
So you don't need me to read them now.

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01:13:23.640 --> 01:13:25.520
We will all enjoy them together.

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01:13:25.840 --> 01:13:28.480
But that brings us to the end of our
shout outs.

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01:13:29.320 --> 01:13:32.265
Well,
then that takes us to the moment we've

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01:13:32.265 --> 01:13:36.127
all been waiting for,
which is the long list for the April

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01:13:36.127 --> 01:13:36.520
round.

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40 stories, 40 names.

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01:13:39.760 --> 01:13:44.480
All of them remain in contention for the
grand prize, the pointy trophy.

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01:13:44.960 --> 01:13:47.760
And for our shortlist is some cash.

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Yeah, decent, decent chunk of change.

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You know, in these uncertain times,
who doesn't want in these extremely

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01:13:55.480 --> 01:13:56.680
precedent times?

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01:13:57.680 --> 01:13:59.364
Yes,
it would be lovely to have a bit more

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01:13:59.364 --> 01:13:59.600
money.

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01:13:59.600 --> 01:14:01.680
Yeah, absolutely.

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And of course,
all of these shortlisted authors will

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01:14:05.580 --> 01:14:08.760
also appear in the anthology at the end
of the year.

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01:14:08.760 --> 01:14:13.280
So from these 40 stories that we're about
to read, six of those will appear.

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Yes,
as will all the names and the titles of

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01:14:15.618 --> 01:14:16.120
the story.

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As always,
we publish those in the anthology.

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So if you hear your name read out now,
your name and story title will at least

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01:14:22.652 --> 01:14:23.760
be in the anthology.

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So without further ado,
here are the 40 stories of the long list

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01:14:33.698 --> 01:14:45.621
for the April 2026 Not Quite Right Prize
for Flash Fiction for Team Ed Divorced by

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01:14:45.621 --> 01:14:54.960
Rachel Phoenix After the Cyclone,
Alice Springs by John Schultz.

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01:14:55.440 --> 01:15:02.279
Repeat After Me by Karen Mitani,
Honeymoon snaps by Freya King,

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01:15:02.279 --> 01:15:08.905
Coin toss by Elizabeth Hoban,
Death in a Nutshell by Tarnell,

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01:15:08.905 --> 01:15:16.280
My Brother the Alien by Josh Lowe,
Back of House by Georgina Priest.

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01:15:16.920 --> 01:15:20.680
The end will be televised by Tatum Shard.

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01:15:21.240 --> 01:15:24.600
5 finger discount by Amanda Todisco.

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01:15:25.400 --> 01:15:34.051
The Steel slide by Matthew P Davis
Unpacking by Anastasia Anderson Tina is a

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01:15:34.051 --> 01:15:40.680
punk rocker now by RC Barajas Rosetta
Stone By Chloe Page.

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01:15:41.120 --> 01:15:44.840
Where do I See Myself in Five years by
Chad Frame.

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01:15:45.280 --> 01:15:52.400
We aren't Fishermen by WJ Arthur Dancing
with Death by Douglas Baumann.

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01:15:52.800 --> 01:16:00.185
I Am Mr Blopez by Hannah Hellier,
The Point by Calum Graves and now

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01:16:00.185 --> 01:16:07.135
representing Team Amanda,
we have I'll Be a Kangaroo by Penny A

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Nichols,
More Than a Whisper by Louise Walton.

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01:16:12.720 --> 01:16:15.560
Round Trip by Sam James.

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01:16:16.000 --> 01:16:22.156
How I Learned My Desk mate was a backup
dancer for the Backstreet Boys by Christy

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01:16:22.156 --> 01:16:27.863
Hartman The Bogan by Liv Stenhouse On the
intersection of puberty and world

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01:16:27.863 --> 01:16:29.440
Domination by Romney.

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01:16:29.440 --> 01:16:33.238
Jane Babe,
would You Still Love Me If I were a Worm

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01:16:33.238 --> 01:16:34.480
by Michael Stone.

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01:16:34.880 --> 01:16:38.840
What His Congregation doesn't Know by
Chris Doty Dunn.

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01:16:39.440 --> 01:16:42.320
The Last Dance by Lorena Oates.

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01:16:42.880 --> 01:16:45.320
Harden Up by Steve Huff.

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01:16:45.720 --> 01:16:46.440
When You're Dead.

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01:16:46.440 --> 01:16:49.320
Best friend communicates via the Spotify
playlist.

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So fresh.

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01:16:50.000 --> 01:16:54.160
Greatest Hits 90s and 2000s by JD Hodley.

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01:16:54.760 --> 01:16:57.640
Be Like the Dandelion by Jennifer Ann.

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01:16:58.320 --> 01:17:00.880
How to do the Robot by Harry Humber.

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01:17:01.400 --> 01:17:07.720
The Year of Haemophilia by Autumn
Bettinger Almonds by Philip McGann.

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01:17:08.240 --> 01:17:16.020
Anthem of a 19 year old Girl in November
1982 for whom Atlanta is the only major

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01:17:16.020 --> 01:17:23.416
city worth running toward by SF means and
I'm Still Silent by Sarah Kennedy,

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01:17:23.416 --> 01:17:28.123
Wand Play by Ryan Nanome,
Waiting by Athena Law,

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01:17:28.123 --> 01:17:35.039
The Pale Blue Dot by Ruth Lord,
and finally The Space Between by Nicola

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01:17:35.039 --> 01:17:35.520
Bell.

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01:17:38.760 --> 01:17:42.363
So congratulations to all of our long
listers,

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01:17:42.363 --> 01:17:48.650
especially those on Team Ed and the very
observant among you will notice that the

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01:17:48.650 --> 01:17:50.720
teams are still very equal.

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We had one,
one story difference in the overall

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01:17:53.658 --> 01:17:57.760
submissions and we've got one story
difference in the longest two.

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Well, yes, okay,
but one the minimum difference, let's say.

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So it's 19 for team Ed,
21 for team Amanda in the longest.

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And we didn't plan that.

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01:18:08.160 --> 01:18:10.400
We didn't know trying to make it equal.

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We didn't really think about whose team.

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01:18:12.720 --> 01:18:16.145
Once we get to that longest stage,
we just have everyone in a bucket and

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we're picking the best stories.

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Yeah and it worked out that the teams did
kind of wash out very evenly.

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And The upshot of that is that anyone
could still win it from a team

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01:18:26.020 --> 01:18:28.769
perspective,
right yeah so the bonus prize that goes

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01:18:28.769 --> 01:18:29.600
to the team and.

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And look,
if your name didn't can appear on the

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01:18:32.613 --> 01:18:36.827
long list on either team there,
you're still in the running for the bonus

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01:18:36.827 --> 01:18:38.080
prize, the lucky draw.

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We will be revealing that in the
shortlist episode as well.

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That's right.

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So any team can win,
any person can win the lucky draw.

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And also we have 4 wild cards to reveal
next episode.

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We've got 2 guest judges, so 4 wild cards.

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It's an extra four bonus prizes,
and I can tell you that not all of those

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01:18:57.768 --> 01:18:59.360
appeared on the long list.

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So there's still a chance for all.

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But, you know,
there were some really big names in that

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01:19:05.622 --> 01:19:08.669
long list there,
some former winners of this competition,

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which might feel a little bit
intimidating,

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01:19:10.981 --> 01:19:15.080
but also there's some really big names
that didn't make the long list at all.

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And I think there's probably going to be
some disappointed people who worked

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01:19:19.280 --> 01:19:23.643
really bloody hard and who were really
trying to deliver something special this

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01:19:23.643 --> 01:19:25.880
round and who did not hit that long list.

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And I know that feeling is really,
really painful.

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01:19:29.120 --> 01:19:30.280
I've been there myself.

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01:19:30.840 --> 01:19:34.000
And to those people, I want to say like,
that doesn't mean we didn't love your

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01:19:34.000 --> 01:19:34.240
story.

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There were so many that were on the cusp,
or maybe,

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01:19:37.636 --> 01:19:41.080
like I might have indicated before,
had a fatal flaw.

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So it's like your story's like so close,
but then there was just one thing that

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01:19:44.970 --> 01:19:47.280
for whatever reason,
kept it off the long list.

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So by no means does that mean you can't
write.

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01:19:50.080 --> 01:19:52.542
It's very much a case of, hey,
maybe with some edits,

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01:19:52.542 --> 01:19:54.960
it might have been a completely different
case here.

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01:19:55.280 --> 01:19:59.369
But I just want to extend my thanks to
everyone for putting your whole selves

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01:19:59.369 --> 01:20:00.680
into this, because it is.

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01:20:01.040 --> 01:20:01.600
Draining.

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01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:06.280
It's draining to use your creativity and
I appreciate that you gave that to us.

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01:20:06.280 --> 01:20:10.282
It always feels like a little present
when we read your stories and especially

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01:20:10.282 --> 01:20:12.360
those ones that are targeted just for us.

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01:20:12.360 --> 01:20:16.471
We do read all of those and swap them
around and have a giggle,

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01:20:16.471 --> 01:20:18.720
so they were very much appreciated.

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01:20:18.720 --> 01:20:19.840
So thank you so much.

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01:20:19.960 --> 01:20:20.400
Absolutely.

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01:20:20.400 --> 01:20:23.787
We had a lot of fun reading all of your
stories as always,

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01:20:23.787 --> 01:20:28.208
and if you have made the long list,
please head over to the website and grab

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01:20:28.208 --> 01:20:28.840
your badge.

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01:20:29.040 --> 01:20:31.903
Your name and your story title is on
there and you can,

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01:20:31.903 --> 01:20:34.000
you can do what you want with that badge.

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01:20:34.280 --> 01:20:38.829
There's nothing stopping you from
printing out 1000 copies and putting them

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01:20:38.829 --> 01:20:42.960
in the letterbox of every person suburb,
just junk mailing everyone.

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01:20:43.400 --> 01:20:45.495
I mean,
there's some pretty good reasons why not,

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01:20:45.495 --> 01:20:47.800
so I'm not encouraging that behaviour,
but it's legal.

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01:20:47.920 --> 01:20:54.080
It's legal, that's what I'm saying,
not legal advice, not a guarantee.

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01:20:54.080 --> 01:20:57.537
But yes, if you want to grab your badge,
you just need to go to the honour roll

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01:20:57.537 --> 01:20:58.920
section of the website for that.

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01:20:58.920 --> 01:21:01.987
And of course,
there is one there for those of you who

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01:21:01.987 --> 01:21:06.616
did not make the long list but who still
feel like sharing the win of being in the

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01:21:06.616 --> 01:21:06.840
mix.

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01:21:06.840 --> 01:21:08.520
So please go and check that out.

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01:21:08.760 --> 01:21:11.840
And of course,
this is not the end for the April round.

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01:21:11.840 --> 01:21:13.560
There's still plenty more to come.

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01:21:13.560 --> 01:21:14.920
We've got the shortlist episode.

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01:21:14.920 --> 01:21:17.703
So whether or not you did make the
longlist,

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01:21:17.703 --> 01:21:22.219
the shortlist episode is always worth
listening to because as as always,

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01:21:22.219 --> 01:21:26.240
we'll be reading out the six shortlisted
stories for this round.

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01:21:26.280 --> 01:21:28.520
Always good fun and also good learning
experience too.

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01:21:28.520 --> 01:21:30.460
Like,
what is it about these stories that made

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01:21:30.460 --> 01:21:31.080
them stand out?

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01:21:31.080 --> 01:21:34.171
And we'll share a little bit of that
insight, I suppose,

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01:21:34.171 --> 01:21:37.480
to to what triggered us to love these
stories in particular.

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01:21:37.480 --> 01:21:38.200
Yeah, very exciting.

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01:21:38.200 --> 01:21:39.840
And I'm looking forward to reading these.

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01:21:39.840 --> 01:21:43.678
I think some of these stories will
translate very well to audio format as

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01:21:43.678 --> 01:21:44.560
well as such fun.

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01:21:44.560 --> 01:21:45.400
And what else we got.

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01:21:45.400 --> 01:21:46.920
We've got some coaching coming up.

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01:21:46.920 --> 01:21:51.560
If you signed up for some coaching with
Amanda, that'll be happening imminently.

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01:21:51.560 --> 01:21:54.277
So if you haven't organised a time
already,

1ee1e044-8c20-4599-b7fe-9e32805a4f28-1
01:21:54.277 --> 01:21:56.440
reach out on email and set that up.

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01:21:56.440 --> 01:21:57.840
But that'll be happening very soon.

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01:21:58.360 --> 01:22:01.983
And then of course we'll have our
daredevils another five stories to read,

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01:22:01.983 --> 01:22:03.240
more feedback to get this.

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01:22:03.240 --> 01:22:07.367
Plenty to come for the April round,
but tickets are on sale already for the

23b51358-0b04-455c-947b-023e52bc9a05-1
01:22:07.367 --> 01:22:09.920
July round,
which is going to be a lot of fun.

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01:22:10.160 --> 01:22:15.517
As we've hinted at a little bit earlier,
we reveal the theme for this round a bit

f8e59ab7-af44-456d-855a-5f5c7eafdc8f-1
01:22:15.517 --> 01:22:16.040
earlier.

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01:22:16.720 --> 01:22:19.280
Get everyone excited for the theme,
which we're excited about.

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01:22:19.280 --> 01:22:20.880
We've seen the initial artwork.

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01:22:20.880 --> 01:22:22.000
It looks like a lot of fun.

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01:22:22.000 --> 01:22:24.542
And yeah,
so Daredevils have already sold out for

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01:22:24.542 --> 01:22:27.848
July because of course,
all us writers are all masochists and we

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01:22:27.848 --> 01:22:29.120
love to punish ourselves.

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01:22:29.440 --> 01:22:32.240
But we do still have some coaching
packages available for that.

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01:22:32.240 --> 01:22:35.277
So if you'd like your feedback a little
bit more private,

8489dddd-3760-4a40-8530-7e1f8cd58ac7-1
01:22:35.277 --> 01:22:38.576
that's an option for you,
but it's also an opportunity to talk

8489dddd-3760-4a40-8530-7e1f8cd58ac7-2
01:22:38.576 --> 01:22:40.880
about just your writing goals more
broadly.

142b17a3-40b7-4d0c-945b-3df1951175ad-0
01:22:40.880 --> 01:22:44.396
So we do talk about in our coaching
sessions, your piece, you know,

142b17a3-40b7-4d0c-945b-3df1951175ad-1
01:22:44.396 --> 01:22:47.292
that you entered,
but also we can sort of expand beyond

142b17a3-40b7-4d0c-945b-3df1951175ad-2
01:22:47.292 --> 01:22:51.120
that and just think about like,
what do you want to do with your writing?

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01:22:51.120 --> 01:22:53.120
And I that's, for me, really rewarding.

b915e2a8-1bfe-43c9-b821-cecb4631ee23-0
01:22:53.120 --> 01:22:55.280
I've been enjoying talking to the
different authors.

b094a4b8-61dc-42d0-bb68-43d616e146d4-0
01:22:55.280 --> 01:22:57.120
Like everybody's got such a different
goal.

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01:22:57.640 --> 01:22:59.240
So I think that's really fascinating.

2f4110d4-58bc-45ed-80c5-6f56753fa2f7-0
01:22:59.240 --> 01:23:02.942
But yeah, I get a lot of out of that,
and I hope my coaching clients get a lot

2f4110d4-58bc-45ed-80c5-6f56753fa2f7-1
01:23:02.942 --> 01:23:03.880
out of that as well.

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01:23:03.880 --> 01:23:04.240
They do.

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01:23:04.240 --> 01:23:08.537
We see their feedback and everyone's very
happy about it and, and look,

13dc9ba1-ff41-492a-9d3d-0111a6317d1b-1
01:23:08.537 --> 01:23:11.760
those do sell out and they are selling
out very fast.

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01:23:11.760 --> 01:23:14.080
So get in if you want to get in on that.

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01:23:14.240 --> 01:23:14.960
Absolutely.

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01:23:15.280 --> 01:23:17.560
I really enjoy meeting people online as
well.

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01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:19.840
Good fun putting faces to names.

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01:23:20.400 --> 01:23:25.840
But thank you once again to everybody for
giving us your time, your creative energy.

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01:23:25.840 --> 01:23:27.480
We really, really appreciate it.

990acbab-c214-4f2a-8520-63dc95990e03-0
01:23:27.480 --> 01:23:32.222
And I hope that the wildness of many of
these entries reflects a sense of fun

990acbab-c214-4f2a-8520-63dc95990e03-1
01:23:32.222 --> 01:23:35.080
that you had in writing these stories as
well.

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01:23:35.080 --> 01:23:38.040
I hope you did feel like you got to let
loose, let your hair down.

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01:23:38.400 --> 01:23:41.673
That's what we love to see,
that you're just having fun and being

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01:23:41.673 --> 01:23:42.120
creative.

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01:23:42.120 --> 01:23:43.640
So thanks once again.

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01:23:43.640 --> 01:23:46.080
And I look forward to the next episode.

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01:23:46.320 --> 01:23:49.893
And listen,
I'm going to try to release this episode

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01:23:49.893 --> 01:23:53.400
early if I can to it and people will love
it if so.

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01:23:53.400 --> 01:23:55.389
I was going to say we'll be back next
week,

5b1d4a7a-c248-4351-9420-5b47e607a62e-1
01:23:55.389 --> 01:23:58.600
but it might be a bit longer than one
week if I do get this out early.

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01:23:58.600 --> 01:24:03.210
But we'll be back very soon in any case
with our shortlist episode where we will

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01:24:03.210 --> 01:24:07.593
find out not only the winner of the whole
thing, but which team won as well,

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01:24:07.593 --> 01:24:08.959
which is super exciting.

bfedc2d4-dfe7-48f3-8aa7-c3fa36d4bffb-0
01:24:09.000 --> 01:24:13.314
And the bonus prize for this round is a
coaching session with me,

bfedc2d4-dfe7-48f3-8aa7-c3fa36d4bffb-1
01:24:13.314 --> 01:24:15.080
but also hot off the press.

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01:24:15.080 --> 01:24:19.000
Yes, a copy of Flesh Fiction Volume 1.

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01:24:19.080 --> 01:24:21.400
We've just got our grubby little hands on
it.

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01:24:21.400 --> 01:24:22.960
Now you've had a sniff.

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01:24:23.000 --> 01:24:23.360
The sniff.

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01:24:23.360 --> 01:24:24.360
How did it smell?

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01:24:24.360 --> 01:24:25.000
Smell good.

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01:24:25.040 --> 01:24:25.280
No.

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01:24:25.280 --> 01:24:26.600
I goods not gonna cuddle.

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01:24:26.600 --> 01:24:26.880
Smell good.

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01:24:26.880 --> 01:24:29.560
It smells so good.

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01:24:30.800 --> 01:24:32.320
I want a bit more description than that.

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01:24:32.320 --> 01:24:33.160
What I smell like?

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01:24:33.160 --> 01:24:33.600
I don't know.

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01:24:33.600 --> 01:24:34.080
I'm not.

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01:24:34.160 --> 01:24:34.440
I.

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01:24:34.560 --> 01:24:36.600
Do you not, like,
enjoy the smell of paper?

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01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:37.160
This is.

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01:24:37.560 --> 01:24:38.320
Am I weird?

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01:24:38.880 --> 01:24:39.600
You are weird.

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01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:40.760
That's not without question.

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01:24:40.760 --> 01:24:42.520
But look like I'm not against it.

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01:24:42.520 --> 01:24:44.400
It's just not something that I don't know.

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01:24:44.400 --> 01:24:46.240
But I really, really enjoyed sports books.

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01:24:46.760 --> 01:24:48.880
Not not in a sexual way, not like that.

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01:24:49.200 --> 01:24:50.440
I just like it alright.

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01:24:50.440 --> 01:24:51.560
I always liked it.

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01:24:52.320 --> 01:24:54.000
Well, can you describe the smell of this?

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01:24:54.280 --> 01:24:54.960
Well, it's a new.

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01:24:55.000 --> 01:24:57.160
It's new, which is less satisfying.

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01:24:57.400 --> 01:24:58.320
No, I like a new book.

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01:24:58.320 --> 01:24:58.800
OK.

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01:24:58.920 --> 01:25:00.520
Yeah, some people like the old book smell.

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01:25:00.520 --> 01:25:02.920
I I do lean towards the new book smell.

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01:25:03.040 --> 01:25:03.440
OK.

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01:25:03.520 --> 01:25:04.240
You like meow?

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01:25:04.680 --> 01:25:04.920
Like.

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01:25:05.040 --> 01:25:08.600
Yeah, you like them hot off the press,
if you know what I mean.

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01:25:11.080 --> 01:25:12.950
Yeah,
I thoroughly recommend it just for the

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01:25:12.950 --> 01:25:13.200
smell.

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01:25:13.320 --> 01:25:17.560
Like if if for no other reason,
just just order it and have a sniff.

b1afd8aa-faf2-48a1-be0c-96ba2ee2b6b9-0
01:25:18.840 --> 01:25:22.520
But like is that before or after 8
different people have read this book?

c3f98f40-ec40-4f90-ad54-b8ca40eabc70-0
01:25:22.520 --> 01:25:24.280
Because I feel like it's gonna smell a
little.

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01:25:24.920 --> 01:25:26.160
It might smell a bit too.

430a1cc7-f340-4fd5-a6e8-2dc299fe0c9c-0
01:25:26.520 --> 01:25:29.480
Don't get this book out from the library
is what we're saying.

c5f58dde-00fa-4757-96e2-7311326c7254-0
01:25:30.440 --> 01:25:31.400
Get your own copy.

ac238b82-9501-48a3-ad73-8928039f2412-0
01:25:31.400 --> 01:25:35.880
Really need to get your own coffee for
safety reasons for hygiene.

ef8328cf-ae6d-44e6-976d-aed1ba62d530-0
01:25:38.080 --> 01:25:41.172
No, but quite seriously,
these stories aren't all going to get you

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01:25:41.172 --> 01:25:41.680
off, right?

9641c476-7887-4a9f-8024-74303a20c835-0
01:25:41.680 --> 01:25:43.455
Like,
I think that might be a little bit of a

9641c476-7887-4a9f-8024-74303a20c835-1
01:25:43.455 --> 01:25:46.582
misunderstanding that people think that
this is just going to be like, Wham bam,

9641c476-7887-4a9f-8024-74303a20c835-2
01:25:46.582 --> 01:25:47.200
thank you ma'am.

93b01082-1e8f-43af-8bb9-1334934e1c0b-0
01:25:47.680 --> 01:25:48.360
Absolutely.

5b000fd0-3b6d-4321-9106-b2ef0fa4286a-0
01:25:48.360 --> 01:25:51.824
Some of the stories are like that and I'm
not going to name my favourites,

5b000fd0-3b6d-4321-9106-b2ef0fa4286a-1
01:25:51.824 --> 01:25:54.920
I'm not going to pick favourites here and
now, but I do have them.

d502ec35-c770-4afb-beb5-29e5a31a4336-0
01:25:55.720 --> 01:26:00.760
But it's just this spectrum of like wild
**** right?

080cfbfb-972a-4e97-b7ea-30dbeeb6db86-0
01:26:00.960 --> 01:26:04.920
It's just the most amazing little slice
of life.

d9d71656-1e92-42c8-b872-c3f63b416d7a-0
01:26:04.920 --> 01:26:08.871
I feel we've got everything in there,
from horror to comedy,

d9d71656-1e92-42c8-b872-c3f63b416d7a-1
01:26:08.871 --> 01:26:13.600
proper beautiful romance to stuff that's
more dark, like it's all there.

ffa53933-65c7-4234-84f9-e0669b5ca74e-0
01:26:13.600 --> 01:26:14.520
And you know what?

1b40abbf-dfd7-4e25-8a84-1c1833f6fecc-0
01:26:14.520 --> 01:26:16.400
This is what we should be sending out
into space.

36746fb5-e7ae-477d-b847-464c77d94b66-0
01:26:16.920 --> 01:26:18.280
It should be flesh fiction.

08a1578c-0662-44aa-b135-33d76d606d6a-0
01:26:18.640 --> 01:26:19.440
The aliens.

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01:26:19.440 --> 01:26:20.560
This is what they want to read.

59870839-4ad4-49db-a5b7-95838483d7b6-0
01:26:21.000 --> 01:26:22.120
Like there's aliens in there.

cbc37c3d-8c0a-45ac-a5b4-6f1599ad3b5c-0
01:26:22.120 --> 01:26:24.585
There's aliens in it,
and they're gonna be like,

cbc37c3d-8c0a-45ac-a5b4-6f1599ad3b5c-1
01:26:24.585 --> 01:26:26.800
this is the user manual for the human
race.

60e7b6b7-3083-4327-9811-7d03d4ce3f3e-0
01:26:27.040 --> 01:26:27.600
I love it.

58e96ec2-4678-4e3d-8b0d-52368563293f-0
01:26:28.360 --> 01:26:29.920
So yes, check that out on the website.

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01:26:29.920 --> 01:26:32.880
And thanks again to everyone who has
entered this round.

87f1c84b-34b9-4b5a-a98c-993d0548e0bd-0
01:26:32.880 --> 01:26:35.930
It it's not over,
we'll be back very soon with some stories,

87f1c84b-34b9-4b5a-a98c-993d0548e0bd-1
01:26:35.930 --> 01:26:37.880
with our show list and with our winner.

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01:26:38.040 --> 01:26:41.400
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Something doesn't seem quite right.

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I was thinking while you're talking about
Domino's,

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we should get a sponsorship going from
Domino's.

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I am like we talk about Domino's all the
time on the podcast.

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Send us pizzas or something.

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Send us just like ******* heart attack.

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Send us the worst possible pizza.

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Send us a pizza.

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That's literally what it's worth that we
paid, which was $5.

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How do you make a profit?

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They don't have $5 pizza.

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They just bank on the fact that you're
coming back for more when drunk and not

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ordering sensibly.

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Yeah, true.

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The amount of times I've done a cheap
order on Domino's,

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I've done an expensive order on Domino's.

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Alright, come on.

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We're merely there.

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Let's.

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Yeah, let's do it alright.