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When you are the moon,
there is a person the people say is the

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sun.

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I saw the sun once and it came past me
really fast and it was,

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it was a cold the the eclipse and it came
past.

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But as it came past, I licked his back.

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I don't know.

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I licked his back,
all on his yellow suit of the moon.

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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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And we are perfectly balanced,
as all things should be.

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Totally.

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We're just in harmony.

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There's a little bit of yin,
there's a little bit of Yang.

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You know, it's all.

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It's all peace and love.

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Have you ever seen that movie 2 Hands?

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Indeed.

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How?

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Excuse me,
What demographic do you think come from?

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Yes,
I have seen the movie 2 Hands more than

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once.

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Good with a little bit of bad,
Bad with a little bit of good.

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So we're here for the longest episode for
the July 2026 Not Quite Right prize,

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full flash fiction.

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So we'll be talking about our favourite
prompt responses, favourite titles,

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favourite lines, shout outs.

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And you know,
some competitions give individual

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feedback,
some competitions you might get peer

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feedback, give and receive.

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In this competition,
we do what we call global feedback.

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And so that's what this episode will be
about as well.

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Just talking through some of the things
that we noticed in this competition,

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in particular this round and how those
impacted some of the stories.

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So if you do hear your name and your
story, shout it out during this episode.

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It doesn't necessarily mean that you are
in the long list.

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It means there's something about your
story that we wanted to call out,

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but hang around until the end of the
episode where we will be reading out the

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long list in full.

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And I just want to give a quick hello
both to our newbies who are here for the

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first time.

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I hope you enjoy your long list episode
experience, but also to our new perverts.

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Yes, from our Patreon.

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So the perverts will actually be getting
all of this information a little bit

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early,
just as one of the little perks of being

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a pervert and supporting us on Patreon.

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So to those of you,
please keep a lid on it.

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Don't let the message get too far.

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I imagine there'll be a little bit of
gossip,

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but let's just try and keep it amongst
ourselves if we can,

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just for that little bit longer.

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Absolutely.

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We don't want to spoil it for everyone
else.

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That's it.

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So that's what we'll be talking about on
this long list episode.

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And in a week's time or so,
we'll also be releasing the shortlist

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episode,
which we will be reading out the top six

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stories,
revealing our wild card picks and our

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assistant Judge wild card picks for this
round.

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And course revealing the winner of this
round two.

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Yes,
I've just texted our graphic designer to

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get the trophy underway.

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Excellent for this round's winner.

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Can't wait to announce that.

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So let's get into it.

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This round we had the theme of yin and
Yang, which I really enjoyed as a theme.

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I think too, I don't know,
it led to very different range of stories

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for each team.

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I think.

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I guess we're all here about creativity,
right?

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We're all here to challenge ourselves,
and so we wanted the kicker to sort of

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offer something a little bit different
each time compared to, say,

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classic prompts.

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Not to say we wouldn't necessarily use
classic prompts down the track,

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but the yin and Yang felt special.

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I think, like a little bit different,
little bit more open.

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And we'll see when we get to our feedback.

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Some people thought it was a little bit
too open.

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Yeah.

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And that can be a little bit challenging
in itself to try and narrow down the

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possibilities.

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But for us,
it felt like a really fun place to take

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it.

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You can never please everyone.

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No.

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Well,
I guess it's the yin and Yang of life.

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Exactly, exactly.

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Very apartment.

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All right,
so let's get into our stats for this

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round.

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We received 297 entries and a total of
144,000 and 50 words,

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which is similar to The Book Thief by
Marcus Zuzak.

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Lovely Australian book there.

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Yes, well, Australian ultra.

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Yeah, very UN Australian book,
I should say.

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Well, maybe non Australian.

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UN Australian,
not set in Australia about Australians.

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All right, alright, well,
let's get to the the important stats yeah

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and the team breakdown because I did
start off saying that everything is in

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balance,
but it really wasn't it really wasn't

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round no.

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So the total submission count for team Ed
was 88 and for team Amanda 209 Woo.

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So that's guys 30 to 70% landslide,
which is pretty.

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I think that's our highest.

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And look,
I'd love to take all the credit for that,

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but I suspect it might have had a little
bit more to to do with the prompts

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themselves, which were of course similar.

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Like we do kind of go with a similar but
different vibe.

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But I suppose people felt more inspired
by yin.

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Yeah,
I definitely think that was the case.

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And I think that the Yin view kind of
inspires, I don't know,

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maybe even more introspective deep story
that people latch onto as an idea.

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So I think maybe that was serious kind of
bad.

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Interestingly,
we had a poll on our Patreon prior to the

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kickoff.

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Which team would you choose for this
round?

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And as of the start of the round,
that was actually all 5050.

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That was, I think it was 20% to me,
20% to you,

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and the remaining 60% on the fence.

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So the on the fence crowd all came to my
team.

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Exactly.

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Made a difference.

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Well,
I'm interested as well because this

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particular round was a little bit gender
based, right?

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Like going on that duality of masculine
and feminine.

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And so I sort of wondered to myself of
was that a factor too?

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We know that we often get like at least
60 more like 70% women.

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Yeah.

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Or people aligning themselves with the
female gender in our competition.

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So did you have a look at that?

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Yeah, I did.

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So this was actually the first round that
we asked people for their pronouns.

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And we.

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We did that because we find ourselves
occasionally wondering when we're reading

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out some of these names.

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Yeah.

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Because we've got pen names.

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We've got people who just use their first
initials.

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Exactly.

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And we've got some sneaky people who use
entirely different identities for the

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competition and not to mention also,
of course,

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wanting to encapsulate those people who
don't want to be referred to as he or her.

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Exactly.

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So in terms of the numbers,
the raw numbers, interestingly, as I said,

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we had 88 people for Team Ed and we
actually had 87 people who have put their

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pronouns down as he, him.

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So that's almost a one to one in terms of
the raw numbers.

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But of course,
it's not as though all of the he hymns

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joined team Yang and all of the she hers
joined team Yin.

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In fact, it was split as you'd expect,
but around 71% of team Amanda entrance

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identified as she her,
whereas only 59% of team Ed identified as

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she her.

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So definitely did my team definitely did
skew more male in your team as well.

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Yeah, right.

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Well,
I'm I guess I'm not surprised by that.

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But you know,
femininity and masculinity were just

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aspect of yin and Yang as well.

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So there are all sorts of ways you could
have used those elements to inspire your

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story.

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But it is interesting to see that.

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And I guess I'm not surprised then by the
landslide.

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I won't take it too personally.

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Yeah, well, me neither.

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And of course we had a number of writers
who wrote for both teams effectively and

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I just wanted to call some of those out.

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So firstly, Andy Blakely,
Sterling with the story The Best Orion

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Elite who submitted for Team Amanda but
said that actually wrote for both teams.

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Former Daredevil there,
Robert Fairhead with the story moving

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from Yin to Yang.

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Who says the story could have been either
and he was unsure about which team to

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submit for until the end.

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Well, I will take that one personally,
Robert.

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I dare you.

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We only just met.

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Where's the loyalty?

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Well,
I appreciate the bone that you threw me,

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Robert.

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That was very, very nice of you.

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Trevor Flanagan also with the story
Meatloaf and the persuasive

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implementation of Wishes and Karmic
Universal Balance,

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who satisfied both teams prompts but
thankfully joined Team Ed.

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Thank you, Trevor.

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Yeah.

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Thanks a lot.

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And there were quite a few people who,
I guess by nature,

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what the prompts were this time around,
incorporated yin and Yang into their

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stories.

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So Robert Fairhead,
who I've mentioned was one.

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A Lou Hayes is another In the dark of a
Cypress Swamp was the story.

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Yeah.

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I mean, that's what yin and Yang is.

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It's not just the duality, right?

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It's the fact that each contains an
element of the other.

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That's the whole concept.

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That's why, you know,
you have the black and white symbol with

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the little bit of white in the black area
and a little bit of black and the white

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area.

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The idea being that they're both
coexisting all the time.

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I would suggest it's pretty much
impossible to write a story that doesn't

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have both.

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But yeah,
interesting to write a story that

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balances the two a little bit more
because of that.

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There are many others who noted in their
explanation fields that they did consider

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both sides of the coin when writing.

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So I think, you know,
when it came down to people submitting,

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a lot of people just chose which one most
reflected their inspiration for the story

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or like the vibe of the story.

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But technically it could have been either.

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There was probably a good almost 20
stories that fell into that bucket.

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Interesting.

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All right,
so let's move to our feedback that we

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received.

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So this is mostly from the general
feedback field in the submission form,

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which we love to read.

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There's always so much amazing praise and
appreciation and and positive feedback

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with the occasional little dig.

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There are there and there we,
but we get it.

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You've just finished a gruelling 2 1/2
days of stressing out 2 1/2 hours.

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If if that's the case for some,
that's right.

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I'm stressing out trying to meet the
deadline and trying to like squeeze your

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creativity out onto the page.

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So we get why you would be a little bit
critical, a little bit shirting.

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And also we have to just remain on planet
Earth.

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We couldn't just have all those lovely
positive comments because honestly,

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our heads would inflate and we would
float away.

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Thank you for keeping us honest.

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So we'll just call out a few that I think
are worth responding to and discussing

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specifically.

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The first one is around the prompts.

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So this one comes from Caro who said I
thought the prompts this time and last

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time were perhaps a bit too open.

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This time I noticed multiple people
across 2 writing groups comment that they

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already had existing stories that could
easily be tweaked to fit the prompts.

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I wonder if perhaps you could look at
tightening the limits a bit again in

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October.

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The January prompts felt the right level
of restrictive in my opinion,

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while the prompts this round and last
round felt paralyzingly open and presents

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the problem of people possibly not
writing specifically for not quite right.

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And that's a great call out there.

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So thank you for your feedback.

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I guess as we kind of mentioned at the
outset,

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it is difficult to please everyone with
with the prompts.

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What we really try to do is be inspiring
more so than restrictive.

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We don't want you to repurpose writing
from the competitions,

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and we do want you to write for this
composition.

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Yeah, I mean,
technically it's in the rules.

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We can't go checking,
but I think a good faith approach is to

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write specifically for the competition
because everybody then has the same time

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limit.

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But yeah, as it comes to the prompts,
like we really did have quite a balance

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this time.

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I think most people were positive about
the prompts, to be honest with you,

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but there was a vocal minority,
but large minority that suggested that

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the prompts were too open.

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Look,
the kick is going to change every time.

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So it's going to vary.

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And the other thing to consider is that
it's your own perspective on it as well,

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and that can change.

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So I know that my own personal writing
practise involves raging against whatever

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00:11:56.608 --> 00:11:58.840
prompts I get every single time.

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That's just part of part of what I do.

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And I think it's just a frustration that
I haven't immediately thought of like the

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00:12:05.109 --> 00:12:08.200
world's best idea within the 1st 2
seconds of getting the prompts.

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And that's a me problem.

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00:12:09.960 --> 00:12:13.825
And I do, if I spend the time,
I do eventually come up with a story idea

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00:12:13.825 --> 00:12:15.520
that I'm excited to write about.

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And I think the same thing applies just
generally when we're considering prompts

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because, you know,
we've had people comment before, like, oh,

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00:12:21.977 --> 00:12:23.760
these prompts were so negative and awful.

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Or these prompts were, yeah,
maybe either too restrictive or too open.

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Or these prompts for this one,
I had feedback that these prompts on the

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00:12:31.639 --> 00:12:35.280
Yin team were forcing you to write a
passive character, for example.

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All of those things are coming from your
own brains because nobody's actually

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forcing you to write any specific story,
no specific genre even,

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00:12:44.147 --> 00:12:46.000
and certainly no specific vibe.

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You can play with the prompts and make
them your ***** basically.

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And I think it's that sometimes we don't
give ourselves that freedom or sometimes

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00:12:54.899 --> 00:12:58.922
we don't spend enough time with the
prompts to realise that we can actually

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be quite creative and take it in
literally whatever direction we want.

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So I mean, feedback taken,
but as you said, Ed earlier,

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like we can't please everybody.

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So we will just continue to try and give
prompts that are inspiring,

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00:13:11.941 --> 00:13:16.812
open enough to let you do whatever you
want with them while still hopefully

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00:13:16.812 --> 00:13:19.760
giving you something to sink your teeth
into.

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00:13:19.840 --> 00:13:22.613
We're not just going to say the prompt is
whatever, you know,

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the prompt is still the prompt.

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To be honest, the best writers,
in my opinion,

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take the prompts and make them integral
to their story.

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So it becomes about not just how can I
get away with using the prompt,

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00:13:32.767 --> 00:13:37.461
but how can I actually make it so that my
story relies on each of the three prompts

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00:13:37.461 --> 00:13:39.920
and without them,
the story wouldn't exist?

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00:13:39.920 --> 00:13:41.892
Like,
that can be the creative challenge for

d5677853-086e-47ab-b2d9-2993b1937d1f-1
00:13:41.892 --> 00:13:43.120
you if you want to level up.

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00:13:43.120 --> 00:13:45.592
Like,
how do I make these prompts intrinsic as

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00:13:45.592 --> 00:13:47.960
opposed to how do I just get away with
them?

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00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:48.720
Hmm.

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00:13:48.720 --> 00:13:51.320
And that's on you if if you enjoy that
challenge or not.

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00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:53.406
But if for those of you who found the
prompts to open,

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00:13:53.406 --> 00:13:55.000
maybe that's one way of thinking about it.

9ab30562-80db-44a9-afb8-d87aa595f8e5-0
00:13:55.000 --> 00:13:59.579
When you get open prompts, like,
how can I actually force myself to make

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00:13:59.579 --> 00:14:00.520
them essential?

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00:14:00.560 --> 00:14:01.960
Yeah, this is gonna be a sign.

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00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:02.920
Why smirking?

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00:14:02.920 --> 00:14:04.040
No, 'cause it's whole time.

19d27b07-e3fa-4d9e-b32d-59e65c8c9e62-0
00:14:06.240 --> 00:14:09.914
Well, because I was just thinking,
and this is going to be a huge tangent,

19d27b07-e3fa-4d9e-b32d-59e65c8c9e62-1
00:14:09.914 --> 00:14:13.638
but I've been watching this guy called
Arvind Haddad on YouTube and he does

19d27b07-e3fa-4d9e-b32d-59e65c8c9e62-2
00:14:13.638 --> 00:14:14.520
mansion critiques.

ef2375f7-89f7-4c8a-a657-dea12c095376-0
00:14:14.680 --> 00:14:17.773
Amazing because, you know,
of course I'm like in the market for a

ef2375f7-89f7-4c8a-a657-dea12c095376-1
00:14:17.773 --> 00:14:19.320
mansion and, and I'm so above it.

1e008de9-a63a-4ab9-988e-7d8c96710911-0
00:14:19.320 --> 00:14:20.080
I'm going to critique.

bca7c16f-a7ad-4ffd-baa3-9efbe3fd0b48-0
00:14:21.400 --> 00:14:23.080
Well,
that's his job and he makes good money by

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00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:23.640
the looks of it.

8a69e507-5e74-426b-bcc9-7a4627b6de90-0
00:14:23.640 --> 00:14:27.265
But anyway,
he talks about design as inside out and

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00:14:27.265 --> 00:14:28.520
outside in, right.

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00:14:28.520 --> 00:14:30.911
So when he looks at a mansion and he says,
well,

450f1753-8441-45ab-98f3-7676760de3ce-1
00:14:30.911 --> 00:14:33.302
this one's clearly designed from the
outside in,

450f1753-8441-45ab-98f3-7676760de3ce-2
00:14:33.302 --> 00:14:35.840
as in they picked the outside like a
grand kind of.

b9c49158-8b22-4694-b253-11475546ee11-0
00:14:36.040 --> 00:14:38.426
Yeah, they they're like,
this is how we want it to look from the

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00:14:38.426 --> 00:14:38.720
outside.

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00:14:38.720 --> 00:14:42.931
And then they kind of just fit the rooms
around inside and it doesn't quite work,

40f55e5d-4e5b-4b3e-9073-55038e6ef93f-1
00:14:42.931 --> 00:14:43.240
right.

4584c685-6039-4950-91aa-3abb261753e7-0
00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:46.434
And then you have other houses that are
outside in where, sorry,

4584c685-6039-4950-91aa-3abb261753e7-1
00:14:46.434 --> 00:14:49.040
inside out where you design the layout
and the flow.

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00:14:49.040 --> 00:14:50.840
And then the outside looks like a
complete mess.

cb8b405e-3f01-46ae-82d0-b6db0ef91046-0
00:14:51.240 --> 00:14:53.887
And he says, well, when you design,
you have to go inside out,

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00:14:53.887 --> 00:14:54.560
then outside in.

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00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.560
So you can have them both playing off
each other and you get a cohesive house.

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And I feel the same way about the prompts
because you can start from the prompts

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00:15:04.021 --> 00:15:06.404
and derive a story that works from the
prompts,

c723dc57-71c9-4675-818f-564927eb83ee-2
00:15:06.404 --> 00:15:09.880
or you can start with a great story and
then shoehorn the prompts in.

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00:15:09.920 --> 00:15:14.897
And I feel like what you need to do is
let the prompts inspire you towards a

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00:15:14.897 --> 00:15:17.807
story,
and then you kind of go back from the

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00:15:17.807 --> 00:15:21.233
outside in,
and then you maximise the prompts within

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00:15:21.233 --> 00:15:21.880
the story.

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00:15:22.240 --> 00:15:24.200
You have to come at it from both ways.

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00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:26.160
So I don't know if that makes sense.

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No, it totally makes sense.

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00:15:27.400 --> 00:15:29.720
It's a lovely little metaphor we've got
going on there.

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00:15:30.480 --> 00:15:33.302
And I also think that assumes people have
the time to do all of this,

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00:15:33.302 --> 00:15:35.440
which of course, many people don't,
and that's fine.

ea1ba760-d7bf-46ab-a2d8-a5526f1a0376-0
00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:37.720
So look,
shoehorn prompts in if you have to.

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00:15:37.720 --> 00:15:37.960
Yeah.

41ad5f5c-0bd3-4b88-ae2d-9e060cecb483-0
00:15:37.960 --> 00:15:41.170
But yeah,
for those of you who are finding either

41ad5f5c-0bd3-4b88-ae2d-9e060cecb483-1
00:15:41.170 --> 00:15:45.922
that the challenge is not great enough
for for your creativity or feeling

41ad5f5c-0bd3-4b88-ae2d-9e060cecb483-2
00:15:45.922 --> 00:15:49.904
paralysed by choice,
maybe then see how you can make it work,

41ad5f5c-0bd3-4b88-ae2d-9e060cecb483-3
00:15:49.904 --> 00:15:52.280
not just how or it can be ticked off.

7a4b8b89-d1af-45f7-accb-60d70801d93d-0
00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.320
But anyway,
that's a little challenge for all of you.

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00:15:55.840 --> 00:15:57.560
Take it or leave it as you see fit.

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00:15:57.880 --> 00:16:02.262
OK, so next point of feedback,
this one comes from John who says love

1ed5a141-3845-4840-81bf-0c1add41ba3c-1
00:16:02.262 --> 00:16:05.080
the challenges,
struggle with the community.

c981901d-306b-42bb-a413-a7008d27efea-0
00:16:05.120 --> 00:16:08.896
It's so helpful and people are vulnerable
and brave to post stories and also to

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00:16:08.896 --> 00:16:10.360
post suggestions and critiques.

c5401377-dee9-48ad-afdb-092841b70f27-0
00:16:10.760 --> 00:16:14.680
Yet the feedback always initially leaves
me in a funk of doubt and depression.

09fd8bbf-a308-466b-ab68-f7c449e48fde-0
00:16:14.840 --> 00:16:18.600
Posting feedback makes me worry I've
misinterpreted or said wrong things.

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00:16:19.520 --> 00:16:21.080
So great comment.

0947bdcc-5b8d-4a01-8ddb-e42ac71cad4e-0
00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.160
And feedback is hard.

951de622-30c2-4832-b045-64a1c2559d0b-0
00:16:23.240 --> 00:16:25.040
Yeah, you're not alone on that one.

25ce821a-0817-4723-9c54-d1a30227a7c1-0
00:16:25.360 --> 00:16:29.254
I think the thing with feedback is
finding your feedback buddy who you're In

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00:16:29.254 --> 00:16:29.760
Sync with.

73f5baca-6807-478e-a5f1-f645f5783e53-0
00:16:29.760 --> 00:16:33.717
And you can give them feedback and they
give you feedback and the feedback feels

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00:16:33.717 --> 00:16:36.160
helpful and encouraging instead of
destabilising.

f7ff60b7-fc66-45bf-9985-0bcbde179416-0
00:16:36.160 --> 00:16:40.366
And especially when you're early in your
writing journey and you feel like these

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00:16:40.366 --> 00:16:42.962
people,
maybe they've won the competition and you

f7ff60b7-fc66-45bf-9985-0bcbde179416-2
00:16:42.962 --> 00:16:45.040
think, OK, what they say must be golden.

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00:16:45.400 --> 00:16:46.720
I have to take it on board.

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00:16:46.720 --> 00:16:50.491
But something tells me it's not right and
you're just not confident enough in

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00:16:50.491 --> 00:16:52.280
yourself to trust your instincts yet.

2ddfd86e-1907-4159-b12f-220e7758acae-0
00:16:52.600 --> 00:16:54.624
Like,
it can be really challenging and it can

2ddfd86e-1907-4159-b12f-220e7758acae-1
00:16:54.624 --> 00:16:55.680
be really destabilising.

e3faea40-56e3-4364-9870-bcdb712e282e-0
00:16:55.680 --> 00:16:56.480
And that's a shame.

ddd09841-328e-42c6-9128-3bfdbca44ac6-0
00:16:56.600 --> 00:16:56.800
Yeah.

34bd22ba-8191-4702-88fb-2c2db53300d7-0
00:16:56.800 --> 00:17:00.552
Because the last thing anybody I would
suggest in this competition,

34bd22ba-8191-4702-88fb-2c2db53300d7-1
00:17:00.552 --> 00:17:03.807
certainly not us,
the last thing we would ever want is for

34bd22ba-8191-4702-88fb-2c2db53300d7-2
00:17:03.807 --> 00:17:05.960
you to lose confidence in your writing.

e189d0aa-e8ea-4a02-bac2-1c1b452916b0-0
00:17:06.080 --> 00:17:07.560
That's that's not what we want.

03e3a21d-c5fe-4fe5-92b8-89a87ce6a5ff-0
00:17:07.760 --> 00:17:11.064
And just remember,
it is hard to hear critical things even

03e3a21d-c5fe-4fe5-92b8-89a87ce6a5ff-1
00:17:11.064 --> 00:17:13.360
or even positive things about your story.

0e00a12e-9a12-4580-b832-2e4e589100d1-0
00:17:13.360 --> 00:17:17.109
But just remember also that it is
someone's opinion,

0e00a12e-9a12-4580-b832-2e4e589100d1-1
00:17:17.109 --> 00:17:21.920
and it shouldn't always be taken as a
fact or objective in any way.

9551a988-ff42-48c6-bc84-ae9029df2e56-0
00:17:21.920 --> 00:17:25.040
So if you love your story,
then it's probably a good story.

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00:17:25.080 --> 00:17:25.400
Yeah.

87a88b71-6c5d-485d-9d09-4268d227cefb-0
00:17:25.400 --> 00:17:27.704
And again, like,
even when it comes to our judging and

87a88b71-6c5d-485d-9d09-4268d227cefb-1
00:17:27.704 --> 00:17:30.554
making a long list or not,
there are plenty of people who've missed

87a88b71-6c5d-485d-9d09-4268d227cefb-2
00:17:30.554 --> 00:17:32.440
our long list who've gone on to
publication.

49d58daf-7539-4a16-b27b-6249fd30f259-0
00:17:32.560 --> 00:17:35.170
And it's not to say that your story is
not great,

49d58daf-7539-4a16-b27b-6249fd30f259-1
00:17:35.170 --> 00:17:37.728
but just in terms of feedback more
specifically,

49d58daf-7539-4a16-b27b-6249fd30f259-2
00:17:37.728 --> 00:17:41.800
there are some tips in the community
about how to give constructive feedback.

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00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:43.880
It is an important skill to learn.

02977590-f324-4d5c-8c68-09aa7944ca46-0
00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.840
And it's important skill to learn to
accept feedback, too.

452c8ad9-ab44-46f4-a3c2-7b1d5f9d4670-0
00:17:46.840 --> 00:17:49.681
Because if you want to continue with
writing,

452c8ad9-ab44-46f4-a3c2-7b1d5f9d4670-1
00:17:49.681 --> 00:17:54.748
I can tell you right now you're going to
get better a lot faster if you can learn

452c8ad9-ab44-46f4-a3c2-7b1d5f9d4670-2
00:17:54.748 --> 00:17:58.578
to not just cop feedback,
but like understand it, analyse it,

452c8ad9-ab44-46f4-a3c2-7b1d5f9d4670-3
00:17:58.578 --> 00:18:03.335
apply it, use it to your advantage,
use it as a boost rather than letting it

452c8ad9-ab44-46f4-a3c2-7b1d5f9d4670-4
00:18:03.335 --> 00:18:05.559
I guess cripple you with self doubt.

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00:18:05.560 --> 00:18:08.720
It is a skill to learn and it comes
easier for some than others.

2efe6ba6-2a73-4f4f-9f93-79b3d4f8d09a-0
00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.042
Some of us have been subject to very
helpful,

2efe6ba6-2a73-4f4f-9f93-79b3d4f8d09a-1
00:18:12.042 --> 00:18:17.387
constructive feedback their entire lives
from their parents, for example,

2efe6ba6-2a73-4f4f-9f93-79b3d4f8d09a-2
00:18:17.387 --> 00:18:18.760
and are used to it.

8ab797c6-270b-4868-8add-09cd154894cc-0
00:18:18.760 --> 00:18:21.020
And others,
I guess struggle a little bit more

8ab797c6-270b-4868-8add-09cd154894cc-1
00:18:21.020 --> 00:18:22.800
feeling vulnerable enough to do that.

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So I don't know, it's up to you.

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00:18:24.320 --> 00:18:24.680
You don't.

d25e6f5b-9c22-474c-ab16-d31dd824e81a-0
00:18:24.680 --> 00:18:26.725
You certainly don't have to engage with
it,

d25e6f5b-9c22-474c-ab16-d31dd824e81a-1
00:18:26.725 --> 00:18:30.351
but I would encourage you to try and
learn that skill if you can and find the

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00:18:30.351 --> 00:18:33.978
person who helps you feel encouraged,
who's at your level with their feedback

d25e6f5b-9c22-474c-ab16-d31dd824e81a-3
00:18:33.978 --> 00:18:35.280
and gives you what you need.

8d7e1d14-00be-47ee-8946-a6dd29ef1e8a-0
00:18:35.280 --> 00:18:38.623
Final tip on that,
I guess is to when you ask for feedback

8d7e1d14-00be-47ee-8946-a6dd29ef1e8a-1
00:18:38.623 --> 00:18:41.796
in the community,
tell people what kind of feedback you

8d7e1d14-00be-47ee-8946-a6dd29ef1e8a-2
00:18:41.796 --> 00:18:42.079
want.

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00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:42.280
Yeah.

f092a059-b9e9-4840-98ab-da64566c8d73-0
00:18:42.440 --> 00:18:44.400
Say to people, I'm new at this.

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00:18:44.400 --> 00:18:47.571
For example, if you are John,
and I'm not sure if you are,

0bf2678a-9bc8-4606-8f6f-6db72c4d8ee9-1
00:18:47.571 --> 00:18:50.367
say I'm new at this,
what I'm really looking for is

0bf2678a-9bc8-4606-8f6f-6db72c4d8ee9-2
00:18:50.367 --> 00:18:51.120
encouragement.

47184f06-b364-4a3f-b976-cce3400f8328-0
00:18:51.280 --> 00:18:55.320
If you can just like be gentle with me
and you know what, they will.

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00:18:55.400 --> 00:18:56.320
Most people will.

2898cce8-e34a-4269-8a52-be3a98291859-0
00:18:56.320 --> 00:18:59.244
You might still get the occasional person
who can't help themselves,

2898cce8-e34a-4269-8a52-be3a98291859-1
00:18:59.244 --> 00:19:02.000
but they will and you'll probably have a
much better time of it.

01049c67-a8d4-4c13-8169-ecbcd39614c9-0
00:19:03.040 --> 00:19:03.840
Some more feedback.

a9a80fd0-eb13-4aa3-be52-bb3a83359147-0
00:19:03.960 --> 00:19:05.720
A couple of people have said this.

04554fba-e4de-41b2-9488-0ec26c0f0e8a-0
00:19:05.840 --> 00:19:10.740
I've got a couple in front of me from
Kari and from Mari basically saying the

04554fba-e4de-41b2-9488-0ec26c0f0e8a-1
00:19:10.740 --> 00:19:14.007
same thing,
that they felt reluctant to submit this

04554fba-e4de-41b2-9488-0ec26c0f0e8a-2
00:19:14.007 --> 00:19:18.280
round because they feel that their
stories are never to our tastes.

72f592f3-9734-4951-be46-337a992a153f-0
00:19:18.840 --> 00:19:22.743
And based on what we've talked about on
the podcast or based on their previous

72f592f3-9734-4951-be46-337a992a153f-1
00:19:22.743 --> 00:19:24.967
results,
Of course we are people and we have

72f592f3-9734-4951-be46-337a992a153f-2
00:19:24.967 --> 00:19:25.560
preferences.

29729e36-3149-4c43-9c8e-fef7c9c7305b-0
00:19:25.560 --> 00:19:30.483
We talk about all the time on the podcast,
the kind of writing that we like,

29729e36-3149-4c43-9c8e-fef7c9c7305b-1
00:19:30.483 --> 00:19:34.320
but don't let that stop you because we
are often surprised.

3000eac9-cffb-4951-8032-66ae57620174-0
00:19:34.880 --> 00:19:38.242
I think one thing that's an advantage of
not quite right over some other

3000eac9-cffb-4951-8032-66ae57620174-1
00:19:38.242 --> 00:19:40.960
competitions is that you actually know
who the judges are.

64eded1c-c33b-4f76-a1d9-08fdf8773581-0
00:19:41.560 --> 00:19:43.320
And very rarely do you know that.

f51e9308-12eb-4d60-8f81-aed5d0fec890-0
00:19:43.480 --> 00:19:45.040
So oh, not very rarely.

f28c10ef-b8ab-44f0-a76b-10a88f80fd17-0
00:19:45.040 --> 00:19:46.000
That's that's not true.

15edaa84-95c1-4fe9-a3ad-647a8066fc80-0
00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:50.284
There are certain other competitions
where you might see a list on the website,

15edaa84-95c1-4fe9-a3ad-647a8066fc80-1
00:19:50.284 --> 00:19:54.461
but very rarely would you get this level
of information about what the judges

15edaa84-95c1-4fe9-a3ad-647a8066fc80-2
00:19:54.461 --> 00:19:55.639
preferences are right.

0fb542ba-410f-4e0c-8df2-06352b393db8-0
00:19:55.760 --> 00:19:58.000
And so maybe that's an advantage,
maybe not.

d7d2798b-2f72-42d5-8edd-0ea65ad60c84-0
00:19:58.000 --> 00:19:59.840
I would say neither of us.

976a4a54-0bc0-4e05-9000-57c9a58309f4-0
00:20:00.040 --> 00:20:04.742
While we have our biases and preferences
generally in terms of what we would read,

976a4a54-0bc0-4e05-9000-57c9a58309f4-1
00:20:04.742 --> 00:20:09.104
for example, what we would choose to read,
when it comes to the competition,

976a4a54-0bc0-4e05-9000-57c9a58309f4-2
00:20:09.104 --> 00:20:13.240
we've said before things that we don't
like that have gone on to win the

976a4a54-0bc0-4e05-9000-57c9a58309f4-3
00:20:13.240 --> 00:20:13.920
competition.

449fcba2-74c3-4652-a8cb-5f96dd668ae1-0
00:20:13.960 --> 00:20:18.560
We actually don't know what we like until
we see it, which is very annoying to say.

a14b0d5e-2133-4fe2-889f-bfdb54f9e866-0
00:20:19.120 --> 00:20:22.427
We have stated this repeatedly,
and I'm not sure how helpful it is,

a14b0d5e-2133-4fe2-889f-bfdb54f9e866-1
00:20:22.427 --> 00:20:25.200
but what we want to see are really great
stories, right?

539b0050-8a84-4681-988e-ec2ed8701b7b-0
00:20:25.200 --> 00:20:27.760
So it's not so much a particular style.

eb6022c1-3fc7-4ee2-8266-48a67e561db3-0
00:20:27.760 --> 00:20:31.649
It's not so much a particular theme or
genre or any of those things or

eb6022c1-3fc7-4ee2-8266-48a67e561db3-1
00:20:31.649 --> 00:20:32.800
characters or topics.

38d0172b-e07f-4471-ac07-0d2b41c48a04-0
00:20:33.040 --> 00:20:34.800
None of that is really relevant.

c164c35b-1319-4e58-bf82-d2a678a84477-0
00:20:34.840 --> 00:20:38.478
What is relevant is what makes a story
compelling,

c164c35b-1319-4e58-bf82-d2a678a84477-1
00:20:38.478 --> 00:20:44.185
what draws us in and makes us feel like
either moved emotionally or entertained

c164c35b-1319-4e58-bf82-d2a678a84477-2
00:20:44.185 --> 00:20:46.040
in a way that rises above.

6e7f24e2-8e3b-4e18-b7a2-9d6cf02eda87-0
00:20:46.040 --> 00:20:50.903
I guess the other general stories that we
receive and all of basically all the

6e7f24e2-8e3b-4e18-b7a2-9d6cf02eda87-1
00:20:50.903 --> 00:20:53.120
stories we receive are great, right?

d6e6cd2c-8f3b-4dfb-a9f5-7b7124824037-0
00:20:53.120 --> 00:20:55.920
So it becomes about, well,
how do you rise above?

27ca8424-3394-4912-b46c-24b4a44e57e6-0
00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:58.100
And,
and that can be done in countless

27ca8424-3394-4912-b46c-24b4a44e57e6-1
00:20:58.100 --> 00:21:01.232
different ways,
none of which are unique or specific to

27ca8424-3394-4912-b46c-24b4a44e57e6-2
00:21:01.232 --> 00:21:01.400
us.

10ba0b4e-4a54-426f-97c5-4059839238f8-0
00:21:01.400 --> 00:21:04.640
There are infinite ways, I suppose,
to stand out from the pack.

4653011f-e4a5-4a15-814d-8ed6cdb7afce-0
00:21:05.320 --> 00:21:09.197
I think what happens, though,
for people is in the disappointment of

4653011f-e4a5-4a15-814d-8ed6cdb7afce-1
00:21:09.197 --> 00:21:12.400
maybe not doing well in a competition,
not long listing.

a1940afa-3f8f-4ed8-bc76-0f58c8aceeca-0
00:21:12.400 --> 00:21:14.911
And look,
maybe you've long listed elsewhere or one

a1940afa-3f8f-4ed8-bc76-0f58c8aceeca-1
00:21:14.911 --> 00:21:18.146
elsewhere or been published and you come
here and you think, well,

a1940afa-3f8f-4ed8-bc76-0f58c8aceeca-2
00:21:18.146 --> 00:21:20.320
why can't I crack this market kind of
thing?

3316a8a9-355b-4a2d-938a-a0d63fdb214d-0
00:21:20.320 --> 00:21:21.600
Like, what's wrong here?

ff434ee4-1206-4dc9-8b2a-563cdb43845e-0
00:21:21.640 --> 00:21:22.520
There's a problem.

778317de-7dc1-4396-b146-16f65e4e5f9b-0
00:21:22.560 --> 00:21:25.520
And the problem can't be my writing
because I've been validated elsewhere.

3d4d84fe-4c2e-43ec-b3eb-4eace9e645d5-0
00:21:25.520 --> 00:21:30.320
The problem must be these people just
don't like what I'm sending them.

2f64802c-97cf-469e-bdf7-cd2ccf4f8ee1-0
00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.242
And look, maybe,
but probably more honestly,

2f64802c-97cf-469e-bdf7-cd2ccf4f8ee1-1
00:21:33.242 --> 00:21:37.661
if we're honest with ourselves,
it's a case of needing to stand out and

2f64802c-97cf-469e-bdf7-cd2ccf4f8ee1-2
00:21:37.661 --> 00:21:41.160
not having stood out in a way that got us
over the line.

85f7ba97-c84e-4147-9787-3a7f2c53441b-0
00:21:41.160 --> 00:21:46.095
There is a lot of luck involved as well
in making a long list and making a short

85f7ba97-c84e-4147-9787-3a7f2c53441b-1
00:21:46.095 --> 00:21:46.400
list.

b6ffd2a4-34a6-4d73-a6ee-afbe9f46601d-0
00:21:46.840 --> 00:21:48.640
We're not comparing apples and apples.

e117fdbd-a17f-48c8-b059-d31931015a9e-0
00:21:48.840 --> 00:21:50.976
Every story has its strengths and
weaknesses,

e117fdbd-a17f-48c8-b059-d31931015a9e-1
00:21:50.976 --> 00:21:53.160
and they are vastly different from each
other.

79c43c59-0ea5-4750-ad73-739240d1ecbe-0
00:21:53.160 --> 00:21:56.719
So it may be true that our preferences
lean towards or away from certain

79c43c59-0ea5-4750-ad73-739240d1ecbe-1
00:21:56.719 --> 00:21:59.840
strengths and weaknesses,
and we value some things over others.

751e68ba-bc98-499a-b55c-3ca2e3e92160-0
00:22:00.440 --> 00:22:03.221
Or it may just be that you got unlucky,
you know,

751e68ba-bc98-499a-b55c-3ca2e3e92160-1
00:22:03.221 --> 00:22:05.280
and all of these things are possible.

8c186ad3-f7e5-4263-8123-faff2dd5e2f9-0
00:22:05.280 --> 00:22:10.427
But I guess what I would hesitate to ever
do is to say to someone your writing

8c186ad3-f7e5-4263-8123-faff2dd5e2f9-1
00:22:10.427 --> 00:22:11.600
doesn't suit here.

a8e47e6e-ff55-45a3-a60d-86f76838511a-0
00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:13.200
Yeah, I don't think that's true.

45784323-78d8-415e-b2b1-53f56aea06ac-0
00:22:13.280 --> 00:22:14.120
I really don't.

830d8b7d-2572-4ca6-a4e7-1a1ec4ac6ddc-0
00:22:14.120 --> 00:22:18.488
We've had such a huge variety of stories
make the shortlist and the longlist,

830d8b7d-2572-4ca6-a4e7-1a1ec4ac6ddc-1
00:22:18.488 --> 00:22:21.400
huge variety stuff that we have said we
don't like.

2261a0cf-a765-464f-b0fa-040c84cb736b-0
00:22:21.480 --> 00:22:24.130
Yeah, You know,
I've said I don't like hermit crabs

2261a0cf-a765-464f-b0fa-040c84cb736b-1
00:22:24.130 --> 00:22:24.640
sometimes.

f3e0170c-00ff-4c4c-8a07-484a7d40ef1c-0
00:22:24.640 --> 00:22:28.640
And then guess what, they appear,
you know, and they get me.

d7d9e10a-35e8-4c65-8b01-a87bea8ba3f8-0
00:22:28.920 --> 00:22:31.780
And look,
if you feel like you're just not hitting,

d7d9e10a-35e8-4c65-8b01-a87bea8ba3f8-1
00:22:31.780 --> 00:22:32.440
that's fine.

2a481c6e-534f-455b-9bcc-6caf16610a37-0
00:22:32.440 --> 00:22:34.600
We won't be offended if you decide to go
elsewhere.

141ebd68-b1bf-4aa2-98a1-dfda78b8e1a1-0
00:22:34.600 --> 00:22:37.680
Like do what serves you as an artist as
well.

de8ce108-dc9e-44cc-ae92-5b0d6c5e1e76-0
00:22:37.920 --> 00:22:43.411
I will also say we've got 2 assistant
judges that read with us and sometimes we

de8ce108-dc9e-44cc-ae92-5b0d6c5e1e76-1
00:22:43.411 --> 00:22:48.560
do differ on taste with them as well,
but also a lot of the time we don't.

6e2de613-19f8-4628-ba3d-181b8c344ff2-0
00:22:48.680 --> 00:22:53.625
The ratings are quite consistent and
that's because good writing shines

6e2de613-19f8-4628-ba3d-181b8c344ff2-1
00:22:53.625 --> 00:22:55.480
through and is appreciated.

62f3e0ab-47b7-465d-bc04-a063e9b997c7-0
00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:59.443
Regardless really of what genre you're
writing in and what your topics are,

62f3e0ab-47b7-465d-bc04-a063e9b997c7-1
00:22:59.443 --> 00:23:03.407
there are definitely pieces that will
resonate more with 1 judge or another

62f3e0ab-47b7-465d-bc04-a063e9b997c7-2
00:23:03.407 --> 00:23:04.920
based on personal experience.

86b1a244-04e6-41b2-a73b-b12a4892c250-0
00:23:05.320 --> 00:23:08.240
So definitely agree that there's a lot of
luck to it.

c5c8dad6-e145-49ba-99fb-99426c833735-0
00:23:08.560 --> 00:23:11.915
But if you're a good writer and you're
writing consistently,

c5c8dad6-e145-49ba-99fb-99426c833735-1
00:23:11.915 --> 00:23:13.400
you will get there I think.

451d7587-e5d1-4c45-b308-f988d3b61009-0
00:23:13.400 --> 00:23:18.040
So I guess what I would say as a headline
is please don't ever write to us.

84bde084-50c8-42b5-b174-816ca3fd0b81-0
00:23:18.040 --> 00:23:22.061
Like trying to impress us and thinking,
oh I know the only thing they like is XYZ,

84bde084-50c8-42b5-b174-816ca3fd0b81-1
00:23:22.061 --> 00:23:24.920
I'm going to write XYZ because that's all
they care about.

d2f722e5-ba30-44e4-a2f8-aeaa70ec954a-0
00:23:25.280 --> 00:23:26.240
It's just not true.

7f4c1f73-abe5-41fc-942b-a7f139a9764b-0
00:23:26.280 --> 00:23:29.446
We want to seek your best work,
and to be honest,

7f4c1f73-abe5-41fc-942b-a7f139a9764b-1
00:23:29.446 --> 00:23:34.386
the stories that often resonate best with
me are the ones that I can feel the

7f4c1f73-abe5-41fc-942b-a7f139a9764b-2
00:23:34.386 --> 00:23:36.920
author cared about, if that makes sense.

4e470291-48f1-4ab7-9eb6-f4f2725e3b62-0
00:23:36.920 --> 00:23:39.360
Like they threw their whole selves into
it.

c0dca838-ee34-4736-89aa-004aa5a84504-0
00:23:39.920 --> 00:23:43.962
And that emotion comes through,
even if it's not a plot or even an

c0dca838-ee34-4736-89aa-004aa5a84504-1
00:23:43.962 --> 00:23:47.160
emotion that I particularly resonate with,
I get it.

47757de6-704f-4d7d-b45f-12712fa8e3fa-0
00:23:47.160 --> 00:23:50.520
Like the empathy comes in and I can feel
it because the authors put it out there.

1ce39cb7-5cc3-4a35-998e-3daed455a3a1-0
00:23:51.080 --> 00:23:52.440
So do what serves you.

774e78f2-7153-4ab7-aa6f-ac1c517e5d97-0
00:23:52.440 --> 00:23:54.240
But your stories are welcome here.

b57a2939-6c08-4536-ae8c-d233489d8cd7-0
00:23:54.280 --> 00:23:55.120
That's what I will say.

e30cae06-8078-4d37-afbf-0518b7750beb-0
00:23:55.120 --> 00:23:56.080
And we've, we've read them.

82a19698-68da-463d-9d09-4aa683e21482-0
00:23:56.080 --> 00:23:58.440
We've read every single one and
considered them carefully.

a9eafdc5-4055-4053-8f0a-9d5664aa1336-0
00:23:58.600 --> 00:24:00.640
So that's all we can do as judges.

8087a705-e6a6-4e63-aa54-8bdb346fb649-0
00:24:00.960 --> 00:24:01.560
Absolutely.

36caecaf-6902-49f5-9e68-b142c553f5bb-0
00:24:02.280 --> 00:24:06.027
Next message comes from S Jones,
who says that they're not a fan of the

36caecaf-6902-49f5-9e68-b142c553f5bb-1
00:24:06.027 --> 00:24:09.880
new Niche section as it impacts people
who want to improve their writing.

92509c10-8d57-4ac7-a552-e610ce095fcd-0
00:24:09.880 --> 00:24:13.880
We can't afford to join and it separates
the haves from the have nots.

ad692c83-ab30-4fad-8582-ba2913eaa853-0
00:24:14.040 --> 00:24:15.800
Well,
don't we have some good news for you?

9e4faaff-41d4-4c25-a53d-75a821dcbc48-0
00:24:15.800 --> 00:24:16.120
Yes.

015faa90-e3cb-44d0-a03a-eb1079d332da-0
00:24:17.160 --> 00:24:18.280
Yeah, because it doesn't.

dd49951c-4498-47ef-8636-868aea1eb241-0
00:24:18.280 --> 00:24:21.281
The Niche is our Patreon exclusive
podcast,

dd49951c-4498-47ef-8636-868aea1eb241-1
00:24:21.281 --> 00:24:23.600
but it's not really about writing.

12853a97-2ff2-4043-acd3-b013dd632657-0
00:24:23.800 --> 00:24:26.960
It's it's about other silly nonsense.

0bc1d8b6-468c-49f4-8184-7d8483418627-0
00:24:26.960 --> 00:24:30.067
We in our latest episode,
we introduced the dossier,

0bc1d8b6-468c-49f4-8184-7d8483418627-1
00:24:30.067 --> 00:24:32.120
which is all about the female gaze.

5f314165-783f-4364-9014-d95fadca5881-0
00:24:32.880 --> 00:24:38.013
We tend to talk about more personal stuff,
more opinions and other things that are

5f314165-783f-4364-9014-d95fadca5881-1
00:24:38.013 --> 00:24:41.600
entirely wouldn't affect your writing one
way or another.

b72864a8-522c-40c1-87a6-059cf5a8a427-0
00:24:41.600 --> 00:24:42.840
I should hope No.

d90c5845-1151-4d84-810b-5253c1ea5445-0
00:24:42.960 --> 00:24:46.880
So look, that's our little club, I guess,
and people who love silly nonsense.

4423fe78-2842-4b5b-942f-3081d9004784-0
00:24:46.880 --> 00:24:48.540
So no,
we're not doing anything over there,

4423fe78-2842-4b5b-942f-3081d9004784-1
00:24:48.540 --> 00:24:49.560
at least not at the moment.

901ef816-32a3-43df-9228-f1367d811db1-0
00:24:49.560 --> 00:24:49.800
Hmm.

0e9dcd9e-cacf-48c7-bd19-8e355ce0b876-0
00:24:50.040 --> 00:24:52.800
That would impact your results in the
competition.

03a0e816-707e-4a0e-9a29-322d54d4bf3f-0
00:24:52.800 --> 00:24:55.280
So please don't feel like you're missing
out on that.

253dbc35-0fb2-417f-aff2-28dd04ecbef2-0
00:24:55.440 --> 00:24:55.800
Absolutely.

1110f6c2-ffd0-4092-b857-276cd142cc96-0
00:24:55.800 --> 00:24:56.680
There are other perks.

bdb65824-f4ff-4c42-b23d-25512c0c2333-0
00:24:56.680 --> 00:25:00.160
We have polls and other discussions there
on Patreon.

2e88ffdb-4921-4ffb-83e2-87fc85b0c34b-0
00:25:00.160 --> 00:25:02.260
So it's it's more just a little bit of
fun,

2e88ffdb-4921-4ffb-83e2-87fc85b0c34b-1
00:25:02.260 --> 00:25:06.080
a little bit extra for people who enjoy
the podcast and who want to support us.

dd92698c-945e-4000-9431-0efa50aeb0bd-0
00:25:06.280 --> 00:25:10.397
But we have Veronica who said that
they're not a fan of the leaderboard

dd92698c-945e-4000-9431-0efa50aeb0bd-1
00:25:10.397 --> 00:25:13.257
concepts,
probably because she's not on it and it

dd92698c-945e-4000-9431-0efa50aeb0bd-2
00:25:13.257 --> 00:25:17.832
deters her from entering because the same
names and same people are winning and

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00:25:17.832 --> 00:25:20.120
being shortlisted, which is fair enough.

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00:25:20.120 --> 00:25:22.640
I think that you feel demotivated by that.

323ecd66-526d-41b4-b398-a1bd3aa16e85-0
00:25:22.840 --> 00:25:27.160
But I do want to remind everyone that it
is a blind judged competition.

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00:25:27.160 --> 00:25:30.600
So we don't award people based on who
they are.

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00:25:30.880 --> 00:25:34.832
And if someone has achieved multiple
shortlists, multiple long lists,

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00:25:34.832 --> 00:25:36.640
it is because they've earned it.

6c3b73ff-da4e-40d7-8189-ac4f9622ad1e-0
00:25:36.680 --> 00:25:41.022
And I would just like to throw out there
that this particular shortlist has some

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00:25:41.022 --> 00:25:41.880
brand new names.

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00:25:41.880 --> 00:25:42.320
It does.

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00:25:42.760 --> 00:25:44.000
It has a lot of brand new names.

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00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:44.320
Yeah.

f1de5cc7-316a-40be-972c-50db979b4ed9-0
00:25:44.320 --> 00:25:47.080
And look,
we love seeing the same names pop up.

1e170c2d-5bcc-4ef1-959d-1718a038f602-0
00:25:47.080 --> 00:25:49.111
You know,
we've made relationships with people on

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00:25:49.111 --> 00:25:49.640
social media.

cb8d0196-84cb-401c-913d-ed691bccfea2-0
00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:51.585
Well,
I have because it doesn't go on social

cb8d0196-84cb-401c-913d-ed691bccfea2-1
00:25:51.585 --> 00:25:52.320
media as we know.

af1d6097-58bd-4fcb-92c1-2dc13bf86083-0
00:25:52.320 --> 00:25:54.080
But I pass everything along to him.

c72f3057-cb28-4429-812a-39873bd415dd-0
00:25:54.080 --> 00:25:55.920
So he's friends by association.

72e4138e-cac5-46ce-a6ae-58dd167b1c36-0
00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:58.653
But you know, that's joyful for us,
I guess,

72e4138e-cac5-46ce-a6ae-58dd167b1c36-1
00:25:58.653 --> 00:26:03.392
to watch the journeys of people who enter
our competition to delight in their

72e4138e-cac5-46ce-a6ae-58dd167b1c36-2
00:26:03.392 --> 00:26:04.000
successes.

7eb3d94d-8cb7-4a95-9372-3568857fae17-0
00:26:04.360 --> 00:26:09.301
And if you want to get more involved,
we encourage you to get on social media,

7eb3d94d-8cb7-4a95-9372-3568857fae17-1
00:26:09.301 --> 00:26:12.616
talk to us,
join the conversation because that's how

7eb3d94d-8cb7-4a95-9372-3568857fae17-2
00:26:12.616 --> 00:26:13.680
you get involved.

d41c5151-cc80-461d-b7f7-056e8d2e0a60-0
00:26:13.680 --> 00:26:14.360
You know what I mean?

60d4ac1a-69f3-4bac-abc6-cbb78d57c084-0
00:26:14.360 --> 00:26:18.166
It make yourself known to us,
stir **** on social media and you will

60d4ac1a-69f3-4bac-abc6-cbb78d57c084-1
00:26:18.166 --> 00:26:19.160
get our attention.

5ff67d8e-ff2a-4b6c-88ba-b07fb2c22c73-0
00:26:19.480 --> 00:26:20.320
We welcome you.

81bd66d5-d8c1-44fb-9f0a-54f17bcff5b6-0
00:26:20.760 --> 00:26:23.560
So this is not an exclusive club by any
means.

3362b2b3-259d-4914-84e9-0d7963c4bd00-0
00:26:23.560 --> 00:26:27.595
We love each and every person who enters
our competition and we would love to get

3362b2b3-259d-4914-84e9-0d7963c4bd00-1
00:26:27.595 --> 00:26:30.400
to know you and we would love to become
your friend too.

9e9c8f02-11fe-4f60-b200-09ab003af661-0
00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:33.200
So please, please put yourself out there,
Yeah.

49a00356-c8ab-4f16-91d2-070a36ff761c-0
00:26:33.320 --> 00:26:36.120
And talk to the other people who enter
the comp too, by the way.

4d55970b-6df4-4c74-9ff0-1c2bcf2f10fc-0
00:26:36.120 --> 00:26:39.223
Like there's a whole community of people
who love to chat,

4d55970b-6df4-4c74-9ff0-1c2bcf2f10fc-1
00:26:39.223 --> 00:26:42.747
stir **** support each other,
follow each others writing journeys,

4d55970b-6df4-4c74-9ff0-1c2bcf2f10fc-2
00:26:42.747 --> 00:26:46.640
and become real life friends as well,
whether they meet in person or not.

f71f0822-fa83-4d91-854b-06d1f4b1d86c-0
00:26:47.080 --> 00:26:49.320
And we'd really,
really encourage you to do that.

b7b1995a-a95b-441c-b3f5-2b8e7f1aedca-0
00:26:49.800 --> 00:26:52.193
And hopefully, you know,
you start to hear your name a little bit

b7b1995a-a95b-441c-b3f5-2b8e7f1aedca-1
00:26:52.193 --> 00:26:52.520
more too.

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00:26:52.520 --> 00:26:52.920
Who knows?

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00:26:53.160 --> 00:26:53.680
Absolutely.

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00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:57.214
And and we love to see new names come up
on the leaderboard and in the long list

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00:26:57.214 --> 00:26:58.000
and the shortlist.

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00:26:58.040 --> 00:27:02.164
That's very rewarding to see people kind
of move forward in their writing journeys

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00:27:02.164 --> 00:27:02.960
and and make it.

7031520a-b583-42cf-be8a-fb5b6ea4b4b5-0
00:27:03.280 --> 00:27:05.960
There's nothing at stake with the
leaderboard, right?

737676cf-6fc8-4915-bd55-1b32dc0d8ad7-0
00:27:05.960 --> 00:27:09.440
You'd the winner doesn't get a prize or
anything extra special.

b0553e13-2046-4f9a-99f9-6a5a71c30259-0
00:27:09.600 --> 00:27:13.088
It's more just a way to acknowledge
people who've who've put in a lot of work

b0553e13-2046-4f9a-99f9-6a5a71c30259-1
00:27:13.088 --> 00:27:16.665
over the last couple of years and just
something for them to see their names in

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00:27:16.665 --> 00:27:17.560
lights, essentially.

f967b8ef-7a21-45ee-8577-c8e474398647-0
00:27:17.600 --> 00:27:22.721
And it's also fun to gradually watch Dean
name drop off the list as well because he

f967b8ef-7a21-45ee-8577-c8e474398647-1
00:27:22.721 --> 00:27:23.880
got up there early.

a0883b7c-5f45-44a0-bb97-75df92bda1d5-0
00:27:23.880 --> 00:27:25.400
He made the shortlist twice.

7535f6f6-17c3-4116-987b-282794e67381-0
00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:29.400
You know, he he was doing really well,
but of course, he can't enter anymore.

3a2f467e-c861-456f-9472-3433e89a86b9-0
00:27:29.960 --> 00:27:31.560
Same goes for a lease, by the way.

205dbfa4-4708-4163-be90-38973bd7b91d-0
00:27:31.560 --> 00:27:33.240
Let's knock a lease off the leaderboard.

9f4dd7a9-5252-4f77-9c7f-4176f45f770d-0
00:27:33.240 --> 00:27:34.600
This can be our new challenge.

139e7c4b-9e1d-449b-8f27-57bcb1b1f76e-0
00:27:34.920 --> 00:27:36.240
But yeah, it's just a bit of fun.

92c18b18-439c-400f-8102-629817369b71-0
00:27:36.240 --> 00:27:38.520
And and I'm so sorry that you feel
excluded.

0953fb1a-a646-4e7c-bdb7-0eb4139805c1-0
00:27:38.520 --> 00:27:39.320
Yeah, in that way.

d5e34030-bb87-4ed3-8b97-49e5b411da40-0
00:27:39.320 --> 00:27:43.448
But hopefully the longer you stick around,
the more chance you have of making it up

d5e34030-bb87-4ed3-8b97-49e5b411da40-1
00:27:43.448 --> 00:27:45.120
that leaderboard as well yourself.

35427bbe-3f07-4e4f-9d05-365123c5df13-0
00:27:45.600 --> 00:27:45.800
All right.

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00:27:45.800 --> 00:27:47.000
So well, let's close it out.

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00:27:47.000 --> 00:27:48.960
Just a couple more points of feedback.

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00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.040
So a couple of people asked if they can
enter more than once, if that's allowed.

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00:27:53.040 --> 00:27:54.280
And yes, that's in the rules.

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00:27:54.280 --> 00:27:55.640
You can enter more than once.

84015005-ae73-4df7-8573-91bb6746de9b-0
00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:59.302
But you do need to sign up with a
separate email and a separate ticket for

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00:27:59.302 --> 00:27:59.840
each entry.

095500b8-a851-499f-9635-e6cffe9027d1-0
00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:04.760
So it's one entry allowed per ticket,
one entry per email address.

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00:28:04.800 --> 00:28:07.320
Do you just,
that's how the way our system works.

e70d1b94-6751-472d-8ae5-b70a7a50f4e6-0
00:28:07.320 --> 00:28:07.920
Yeah, that's right.

9cbbafde-c162-4b99-b0c6-8a3c48403ba2-0
00:28:07.920 --> 00:28:09.720
So each account is tied to an email
address.

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00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:11.280
So you'd need a new email address.

e0db6def-7d14-47f2-b2b6-95ea2e8a6d43-0
00:28:11.280 --> 00:28:13.957
But we, you know,
absolutely enter more than once,

e0db6def-7d14-47f2-b2b6-95ea2e8a6d43-1
00:28:13.957 --> 00:28:18.367
if you've got that much creativity in you,
go for it that much time on your weekend

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00:28:18.367 --> 00:28:18.840
for sure.

851eb868-d347-44c4-a1f1-4052a38c5ca1-0
00:28:19.080 --> 00:28:22.659
And just to acknowledge,
a lot of people did provide some very

851eb868-d347-44c4-a1f1-4052a38c5ca1-1
00:28:22.659 --> 00:28:25.160
valuable technical feedback on the
website.

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00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:29.343
Some suggested improvements and features
which we will, as always,

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00:28:29.343 --> 00:28:33.840
take under consideration as we seek to
continually improve the website.

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00:28:34.240 --> 00:28:37.805
And finally,
some love being expressed for the vague

e431179b-d9e2-4eb9-bf0d-d2fa32b2617f-1
00:28:37.805 --> 00:28:38.680
tweets there.

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00:28:39.040 --> 00:28:39.920
Hmm, really appreciate it.

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00:28:39.920 --> 00:28:41.400
I'd like to toot my own horn.

0c4d94dc-a9e9-4cdb-87a4-301ae99f9f02-0
00:28:41.600 --> 00:28:43.040
Yes, go go nuts.

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00:28:43.040 --> 00:28:44.080
I've broken my record.

dab70f28-015c-47db-9c44-fbc7462ee02f-0
00:28:44.080 --> 00:28:47.360
I believe my previous record may have
been two or three vague tweets.

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00:28:47.840 --> 00:28:50.400
I don't know my exact number, but I,
I smashed it.

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00:28:50.480 --> 00:28:52.840
You smashed it out of the blew it out of
the water.

f4694bf2-ace9-4692-84be-64cfcb3a962b-0
00:28:52.840 --> 00:28:55.920
There were at least 8 or 9 this time
around.

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00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:57.120
It might have even been equal.

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00:28:57.120 --> 00:28:57.560
This time.

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00:28:57.560 --> 00:28:59.320
It may have been, I haven't counted.

913571ee-6907-4c12-a855-129cd956acb0-0
00:29:00.320 --> 00:29:04.139
But as always,
we reveal our vague tweets at the end of

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00:29:04.139 --> 00:29:05.640
the shortlist episode.

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00:29:05.800 --> 00:29:06.920
So hang around for that.

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00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:07.640
And we should be clear.

cb8c548e-e420-4e20-9fd9-cdd4f6273fc9-0
00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.680
We call them tweets,
but really we should say vague posts.

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00:29:10.680 --> 00:29:11.880
We're not on Twitter anymore.

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00:29:11.880 --> 00:29:13.480
We're on over on Blue Sky.

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00:29:13.480 --> 00:29:14.840
So please do look us up there.

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00:29:14.840 --> 00:29:16.760
Not quite right on Blue Sky.

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00:29:16.760 --> 00:29:17.760
And it's lots of fun.

ee7938f8-121f-4965-8d74-f9bbe2715d2b-0
00:29:17.840 --> 00:29:20.547
And again,
another opportunity to engage with other

ee7938f8-121f-4965-8d74-f9bbe2715d2b-1
00:29:20.547 --> 00:29:24.453
people who enter the competition,
talk **** trash Ed for not giving enough

ee7938f8-121f-4965-8d74-f9bbe2715d2b-2
00:29:24.453 --> 00:29:26.639
fake tweets, you know, that kind of stuff.

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00:29:26.640 --> 00:29:27.000
It's fun.

aad6e03d-067b-44e5-9ba7-39770974abb5-0
00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:28.400
He's Ed's really on.

f3a2024a-fbc1-435a-a40c-ae6f87278715-0
00:29:28.400 --> 00:29:30.480
So one of my favourite things to do is
trash him.

b6617ead-775b-4219-8185-6540e6f04694-0
00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:31.360
And he doesn't even know.

821bbd61-7063-4472-8d49-86d7e40936c1-0
00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:32.080
I don't even know.

94790388-8cb9-477d-b9da-df5f45ff88f7-0
00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:36.891
I'll I'll about every four or five days
I'll remember about the existence of Blue

94790388-8cb9-477d-b9da-df5f45ff88f7-1
00:29:36.891 --> 00:29:38.200
Sky and I'll have a look.

838f57b1-1f3d-40be-90cc-3e64daac7977-0
00:29:38.840 --> 00:29:40.960
So that's all for our feedback for this
round.

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00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:42.400
Let's get into the prompts.

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00:29:42.400 --> 00:29:43.000
Let's do it.

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00:29:43.000 --> 00:29:47.535
So we'll tackle each of the three prompts
and we'll kind of switch between the

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00:29:47.535 --> 00:29:47.880
teams.

8492689f-5b13-4a38-84c0-ce598f46fe41-0
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:48.960
Love switching teams.

7dd6a010-f7f1-4246-864e-9a80a5dd8e8b-0
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:49.960
It's very yin Yang.

a0d2d050-e87a-4d93-a76c-f2ff1c61b826-0
00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:52.120
It is insane, non binary.

43db567d-d008-4c65-bf48-53e0bab8e59a-0
00:29:52.120 --> 00:29:55.000
Let's just get amongst just lit around.

4bbfd64a-5915-4201-aec3-083e34a884af-0
00:29:57.920 --> 00:29:58.720
I've had one drink.

1a77c449-31b6-4e92-8634-ab92256c81b9-0
00:29:58.720 --> 00:30:01.720
We've had one drink,
Amanda haven't even finished.

7dbff528-70fb-4884-ae36-05812fccdcd3-0
00:30:01.720 --> 00:30:04.800
No,
it's and it's 1 regulated standard drink.

c02646f1-8599-447e-8995-e63b1470edea-0
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:08.080
By the way,
that was measured on your little scale.

985496c0-7b9b-4cac-a9be-cd344c5d1a08-0
00:30:08.280 --> 00:30:10.120
Did you spike it?

67107d9b-0b2d-4cef-ac35-889888c609e3-0
00:30:10.120 --> 00:30:12.520
I spiked it with the alcohol that's
already in it.

230356ab-5184-4791-be98-2feccaee81e6-0
00:30:14.320 --> 00:30:18.050
So we normally start with Team Ed,
but I feel like we need to switch it up

230356ab-5184-4791-be98-2feccaee81e6-1
00:30:18.050 --> 00:30:20.040
this round because it's yin before Yang.

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00:30:20.040 --> 00:30:20.800
It really is.

338070cd-aaf6-44f4-afbd-2dedcf5eafc3-0
00:30:20.800 --> 00:30:22.640
So let's start with team yin.

a9256c07-421a-4ce0-9e38-b9348dc0389a-0
00:30:22.680 --> 00:30:26.240
OK, so team yin,
so we're talking feminine energy.

da956c0a-d504-4754-b711-3bdab859e45c-0
00:30:26.240 --> 00:30:31.560
If we're on that binary frame,
we're talking dark side of the mountain.

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00:30:31.560 --> 00:30:33.840
We're talking shadow, the moon.

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00:30:33.920 --> 00:30:37.960
These kinds of concepts are what inspired
Team yin this time.

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We also had, of course,
the word prompt moon and the action

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prompt of concealing something.

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All of this is very yin, and for my team,
I'd just say some general comments.

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What I really noticed was the moon was
very prominent.

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Yeah, the moon featured heavily,
which is great.

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That was the word prompt.

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Of course,
female energy also featured very heavily.

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We had more lesbians than usual,
which is fun.

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And we usually do have a few.

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We do.

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And so just stitch the men all together.

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That was how some people interpreted
these prompts.

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And I think because not just the yin and
Yang, which is already kind of, I guess,

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a bit mystical, but the moon as well,
we had a lot of mystical stuff.

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And I had talked about on the community
there in my post about how I'm getting

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into tarot,
and we actually had a lot of tarot

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references as well.

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So people being inspired by that.

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Yeah, we did in my team as well,
which was surprising.

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Well,
I guess people are just reading both of

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those posts probably,
which is a great idea before you make

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your decision.

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But really on Team yin,
it was very mystical.

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Not only were there a lot of moons,
there were also a lot of bodies of water.

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I feel like moons and water go together,
right?

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So we saw that that a lot and randomly,
I don't know why,

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but two people are on the same wavelength
with Tamagotchis.

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So I don't know what screams yin about
Tamagotchi.

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Maybe it's just a coincidence.

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But also 7 werewolf stories.

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Well, OK.

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And again, you got your moon.

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What comes next?

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I'm curious to know if anyone mooned
anyone in your story.

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We will get to that.

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All right,
so let's start with the word prompt.

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Then on that note.

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OK, so we have the word prompt of moon.

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Now, again,
it was generally a very prominent feature

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of a lot of stories,
a lot said at night all of a sudden.

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And you know, just that vibe,
that full moon kind of vibe was very

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prominent in Team Yin as well.

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So I just want to talk about some of the
common usages.

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And there were a lot.

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So The thing is,
and this is I guess where people were

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saying maybe the prompts were too broad,
that in fact there's a lot of options

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when we talk about the moon.

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So I'm just going to rattle them off and
you might recognise yourself among these.

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So the moon as a celestial steel body was
absolutely by far and away the most

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common usage, as you might expect.

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And I didn't do the stats.

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It was complicated because of, you know,
there's a lot of overlap and so on,

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but I would say at least 80% of the
stories featured the moon like

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prominently or very clearly.

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So that was very much a strong theme
coming through.

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And therefore there were a lot of usages
of the word moon that related to the

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actual moon.

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So moonlight, full moon,
other specific types of moon like harvest

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moon or Crescent moon, new moon,
that kind of thing.

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We had a few characters with the name
Moon and a lot of Lunas as well.

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We had some point of views of the moon,
so the moon itself was the character,

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which is fun.

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I mentioned already we had tarot cards.

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We had the moon tarot card feature,
which as any tarot followers would know,

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is the ***** of all the cards, right?

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We do not love the moon card,
but she's there to taunt us.

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We had four honeymoons,
just one baby moon.

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We had a couple of full moon parties,
which is fun.

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I've never been to a full moon.

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Money.

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I don't know what that entails apart from
probably a lot of a lot of alcohol.

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And I'd expect some antics.

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I feel like it has to happen in a field.

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Yeah.

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And there.

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There needs to be a murder for sure,
a murder or some sort of like life

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changing, you know, issue.

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We had moonstones featured prominently as
well,

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but often just by comparison to things
like that, someone's eyes were shiny,

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like moonstones, that kind of thing.

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We had two references to Simoon,
which I was not familiar with,

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but Arabic origin there.

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Very desert driven, so like a dry,
extremely dry, hot wind.

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I believe we had a couple of references
to Shoot the Moon,

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which is a card game moon.

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Yeah, in the game Hearts.

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Fun side note on the game of Hearts,
do it.

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But in year 11 and 12 in high school,
I was responsible for a field.

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I never missed a day of school of year 12,
but I missed every single class because

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we would spend all day in the schoolyard
at the back of the Oval playing hearts.

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This tracks for smoking and playing
hearts and we played so many hundreds of

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hours of hearts.

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We got so good.

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We all shot the moon many, many times.

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It's a game that's near and dear to my
heart, but I was recently thinking,

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how do you play it?

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And I couldn't actually actually remember
how **** you played that game.

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Yeah, my family plays the game.

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I don't remember you.

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You just forget in between you do this
really tracks for you because when we

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work together,
we used to play card games every single

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day.

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Game guy we would our card game of choice
was skipless, which again,

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another game we tried to relearn to play
with my kids because it's been so long

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00:35:23.120 --> 00:35:24.880
and also you're not very good at it.

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But anyway, I for the record,
we kept record of the games that we

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played.

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Don't you remember?

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Because it was like whoever won the most
gets a Coke.

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But we tallied the mark and you,
you won by one game out of like over

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hundreds and hundreds of games.

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It was pretty damn even.

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No, I'll take that.

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I won, OK,
and I'll lose that forever more.

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And well,
that was can I remind you of that?

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He could have told me any **** right then
and I would have believed him too late.

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00:35:55.240 --> 00:35:56.240
But that was a lovely aside.

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Thank you for that little journey down
memory lane.

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All right.

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So loving to the moon and back was also a
popular theme, which is very cute.

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Love that we had four stories that
mentioned moonshine.

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Yeah,
and I'll just rattle off a couple of

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00:36:09.039 --> 00:36:09.680
other things.

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We had a lot of other things,
so I'm sorry if I didn't capture yours.

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There were a lot,
so I don't want to be here all day.

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But we had the Half Moon yoga pose,
moon cakes, moon pies, moonlighting,

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00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.640
which of course we all have to do now in
the gig economy.

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00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:29.973
We had moon River mentioned the word
moony as in like as the vibe like mooning

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00:36:29.973 --> 00:36:31.560
about that kind of thing.

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00:36:32.000 --> 00:36:37.208
Moonstruck, moon shot,
and of course Ed's favourite using the

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word moon in place of month.

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I know how much you love.

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00:36:41.440 --> 00:36:44.280
I'm so glad I didn't choose Team Yin.

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No, there weren't many.

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00:36:45.800 --> 00:36:47.560
I think people have got that memo.

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But also, you know, you're safe with me,
so that's OK.

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00:36:50.640 --> 00:36:54.537
I will say I didn't count how many,
but there were plenty of bare bumps as

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well,
which of course you know we're going to

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appreciate here.

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It not quite right, but disappointingly,
not a single moonwalk.

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Oh, where's the moonwalk guys?

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Come on, missed opportunity.

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Very disappointed in all of you.

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But best news of all,
not a single disqualification for missing

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00:37:14.216 --> 00:37:14.720
the word.

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And as you do all know,
that's pretty much the only way you can

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00:37:17.684 --> 00:37:20.000
get disqualified in in the not quite
right prize.

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00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:21.280
And we didn't have any.

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In fact,
we didn't have any for either team.

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No,
but I just wanted to call out two stories

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in particular for their creative use of
the moon word prompt.

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And one of those was a a long with the
story.

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London 65.

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I don't know, no.

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Was it a historical fiction or a creative
nonfiction?

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I don't know.

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But it featured a character who had an
affair and got pregnant to Jerry Evans.

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Well, I assume it's Jerry Evans,
an acquaintance of Keith Moon.

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Oh,
so the moon in that story was Keith Moon,

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which is good fun.

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So thank you for that one AA long.

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And then the other one I wanted to
mention was the story The Celestial

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Rescue near the Metropolitan Borough of
Oldham by Jonathan Dawson,

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in which the moon featured very
prominently.

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The moon kind of like lands on Earth,
like an asteroid kind of thing.

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And they start to build a tourist
attraction out of it.

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And the main character realises that the
moon's kind of worn out.

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And so they stuff it up their jumper and
then like everyone's like,

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where did the moon go?

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So the whole story was centred around
that, which is good fun.

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But I just wanted to call out one of the
things that the townspeople did,

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which was that they started selling moon
coffee, right?

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Amongst other things,
moon everything right but moon coffee,

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which was coffee with a bit more milk,
which is just such a classic ********

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thing to do.

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So I did enjoy that Jonathan, thank you.

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So now, Ed,
please share with us your team's usage of

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their word prompt.

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Yeah, so team Yang.

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And you know,
just to go into what Yang means,

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I think most people interpreted this in
similar ways to yin in that what featured

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very prominently was masculinity and the
sun.

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I would say like 90% of stories kind of
leading into those elements.

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And in terms of the word prompt sun,
which is probably maybe a little bit more

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flexible than moon, I think,
but not too much in terms of different

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words, I think it is,
but not necessarily thematically.

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I think both are quite open that way.

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Yeah.

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Most words that feature the word sun
include the word sun in them are related

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to the sun one way or another.

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And so the number one word that was used,
can you guess it?

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It was sun.

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So out of the 88 stories for Team Yang,
38 of them use the word sun just to mean

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the sun.

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00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:41.880
A lot of stories taking place in the
desert in very hot places.

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Because of that,
we also had sunlight with eight, sun,

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day with 7, sunflower with four,
sunset with four, sunny with three.

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We had misunderstanding, which I like.

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Tsunami very cool.

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3 instances of that a Sunder 2 instances
bosun,

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which is one that I had to look up a
that's a ship thing, right?

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Yeah.

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Position a job on a ship,
a bosun sun dress, which I'm a fan of.

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We have two instances of that.

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Sunglasses, sunless,
2 sunrises as opposed to 4 sunsets.

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And then there are several words that
only featured in one single story,

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00:40:24.368 --> 00:40:26.680
so I'll list those out specifically.

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So 1 instance of anti Sunwood and that
was from Clements.

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Roche and their story.

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Running kisses for a love letter from
Will Kelly in my name.

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Sunday as in SUNDAE.

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The only instance of that.

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Oh really?

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KA Vargas in the story feudal feasts
featured the word sundering.

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Only one instance of that,
and just to call out Exeter T Stevens,

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who I think had the most instances of
unique sun words.

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OK, the first of which is artesianate,
and I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing that

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00:41:02.382 --> 00:41:04.824
correctly,
but it's a potent anti malarial

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00:41:04.824 --> 00:41:07.720
medication used primarily to treat severe
malaria.

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OK, derived from the sweet Wormwood plant.

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So I'm assuming Exeter took this from
memory Absolutely completely.

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That just came to you in a fit of
inspiration,

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00:41:20.013 --> 00:41:22.720
not a Google rabbit hole whatsoever.

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That's good fun.

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00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:26.920
It's always good to do something a little
bit different.

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So let's move on to the action prompt and
we'll start with your Team Amanda.

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So on Team Amanda,
the action was to have a character who

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concealed something.

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You know,
we're usually pretty flexible with how we

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00:41:39.582 --> 00:41:40.200
interpret that.

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So again,
there was some consistent themes here,

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some things that were commonly concealed.

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So one of those was sexuality.

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So we saw a lot of stories around,
you know,

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00:41:50.410 --> 00:41:53.760
coming out of the closet kind of thing or
remaining in the closet.

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We had concealed pregnancies,
which became central to the story.

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We had quite a few concealed illnesses.

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And I will say that sadly,
every single one of them was terminal and

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00:42:06.080 --> 00:42:07.560
true feelings as well.

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So people concealing their true feelings
for each other and more than a few dead

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00:42:12.460 --> 00:42:14.880
bodies as well, which you might imagine.

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I just want to call out just one for AI.

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Guess a little bit of a different and
unique take on the concealed prompt.

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00:42:22.200 --> 00:42:27.280
And that was from Greg Schmidt,
a familiar name with his story stages.

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And I just really enjoyed the fun premise
for this story,

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00:42:30.825 --> 00:42:35.654
which was to compare the five stages of
grief with the levels in a Super Mario

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00:42:35.654 --> 00:42:35.960
game.

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Yeah, memorable story.

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And not just doing that right,
because you can just do your sort of

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00:42:42.356 --> 00:42:43.640
hermit crab kind of thing.

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But also getting into it and kind of
thinking about how that character is

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00:42:48.049 --> 00:42:52.876
using the video game as a distraction as
well to kind of prevent themselves from

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00:42:52.876 --> 00:42:57.762
experiencing and feeling their grief and
concealing even to themselves that their

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00:42:57.762 --> 00:43:01.040
true feelings about their mother's death
in this case.

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And I thought that was a fun premise,
but also an emotional story.

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So thank you for that one, Greg,
but I guess I just wanted to touch on

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something a little bit difficult here.

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And this is where we get into that
inverted commas global feedback territory.

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And that is that I feel like actually the
conceal slash reveal,

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00:43:18.878 --> 00:43:24.258
which was of course Team Yang's prompt,
actually caused a lot of trouble for a

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00:43:24.258 --> 00:43:25.280
lot of stories.

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And the reason I say that is because what
I was finding in my team stories was that

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00:43:30.560 --> 00:43:33.765
of course,
because it's the prompt for many people

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00:43:33.765 --> 00:43:38.982
becomes quite prominent and the plot then
is purely somebody concealing something,

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00:43:38.982 --> 00:43:39.360
right?

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00:43:39.360 --> 00:43:43.733
So for the either for the entire story,
they conceal it all the way to the end

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00:43:43.733 --> 00:43:48.273
and they are still concealing it at the
end or something happens and they conceal

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00:43:48.273 --> 00:43:48.440
it.

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00:43:48.800 --> 00:43:51.726
Now, that's not necessarily a problem,
but from a if,

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00:43:51.726 --> 00:43:55.900
we're just talking big picture terms
about what typically makes a satisfying

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00:43:55.900 --> 00:43:58.556
story,
and maybe you'll see your story reflected

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00:43:58.556 --> 00:43:59.640
in my comments here.

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If nothing changes,
if at the end of the story we are still

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in the same place that we were at the
start of the story, that's a challenge.

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It's a challenge to deliver impact with a
story that starts and ends in the same

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place with no real meaningful change or
shift happening in that.

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And often as well,
the story is quite interior or internal.

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So we spend the entire story in someone's
head as they wrestle with the idea of

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concealing something and very little
action is happening because all they're

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doing is refraining from spilling the
beans.

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It's not to say that you can't do well
with a story like that in a competition,

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and it's certainly not to say that you
can't write a meaningful piece of fiction

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or a meaningful reflection that has those
features.

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But in terms of standing out in a
competition setting,

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those stories where we're,
we spend the entire time in someone's

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head where they decide not to do anything,
it's very,

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00:44:56.149 --> 00:45:00.317
very challenging to make that a
compelling stand out winning kind of

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story.

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So I guess I,
I just want to raise that and that's

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uncomfortable.

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Like people don't want to hear,
I guess that their idea didn't work in

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the setting.

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But if you're wondering why,
when we get to the long this stage,

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maybe your story didn't make it,
that could be the reason.

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And that doesn't mean you're a bad writer,
right?

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Your writing might have been beautiful.

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And in fact,
most people write beautifully for our

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competition.

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But if you fail to deliver impact in that
way, then I think that can be a problem.

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And that can get between you and a long
listing or a win.

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Even if your story is in other ways
emotional, heartfelt,

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coming from somewhere deep within you,
if it fails to connect from a

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storytelling point of view,
then that's a challenge.

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So I don't know if you found the same
thing over on Team Ed.

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Yeah, well, it's almost a trap, isn't it?

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It's like when we used to run the anti
prompt, right?

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We said break a rule of writing,
but still make your story good.

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So it's the same kind of thing where you
want to follow the prompt,

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but you need to be wary of the ways that
following the prompt might take away from

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the story's effectiveness if you were
just doing the thing exactly as it is in

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the prompt or featuring that centrally in
your story.

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To be fair,
I couldn't have predicted this.

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Like,
I didn't know that this would be the

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impact.

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And it's only when you see it across all
the stories, you know,

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like we had so many stories and so many
of them where, I guess you might say,

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falling into this same trap of
interiority and lack of change,

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lack of a movement,
where the the conflict never actually

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eventuates because we're keeping it to
ourselves.

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To me, I found it a very,
very interesting learning experience.

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Like,
how big of an impact that actually has to

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keep that all internal.

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And we knew that already.

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But just that one prompt, how it could,
I guess, diminish the drama,

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the conflict and the change and the
character arcs and all of these

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fundamental parts of what typically is
considered essential in storytelling.

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Yeah.

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And look, moving to the Team Yang stories,
the action there being revealing

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something, character, reveal something.

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And what's striking is the kinds of
things that they were revealing,

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very similar to the kinds of things that
people on your team were concealing.

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So we had things like diagnosis,
sexuality, infidelity,

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aspects of their buried past,
and that was the majority of the stories

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00:47:10.469 --> 00:47:12.240
that went in that direction.

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And in the case of revealing something,
it is very much aligned to a good

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storytelling because that's exactly the
kind of thing that creates conflict and

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creates drama and creates a story.

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And I can think of a, you know,
several coming out of the closet type

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stories that did exactly that.

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Can I just add to that though,
because of course,

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I did read all the top rated Team Ed
stories as well.

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And so it was interesting then to kind of
jump across and see that dichotomy,

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I guess.

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But to me, I call it a dichotomy.

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To me,
I didn't notice the distinction that much

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because as you said,
a lot of the things that were being

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concealed and revealed were very similar.

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But also the challenge in Team Ed that I
personally saw was that again,

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we're using that as our plot.

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So the reveal is our plot.

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And for many, many stories,
the came right at the end and then we

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didn't actually get to see the conflict
that followed.

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So we had this kind of angsting about the
reveal.

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The reveal came late and then we didn't
get all the drama and the explosive

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impact of this big reveal.

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It kind of just ended.

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And we're left with imagining what next.

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And to me,
the what next is often the story, right?

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Like how does that thing impact your
world?

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How does that change your world?

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And if you don't deliver that change,
if you just deliver the moment without

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the impact and the change,
that's the same problem to me as

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concealing something and never saying it
because the change and the impact don't

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ever happen.

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Yeah, I agree with that.

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But also,
I think there were a couple of stories

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that come to mind in your group that I
read,

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the highly rated stories that were very
well written and compelling that didn't

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do the reveal like to us because there
was clearly something on the mind of the

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protagonist and it was coming through
really strongly in the writing.

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But we never got to find out about it.

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And I found that really frustrating as
well.

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Yeah, that's also true.

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And in fact,
that was something I think that I hinted

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at in my post on the community before the
competition began, which was around like,

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try not to conceal things from the reader.

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Try not to rely on mystery as being like
your hook for a piece of flash fiction.

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And the reason being that if we don't
know as a reader what's happening,

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we can't connect to what is happening.

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We're kind of floating above it,
wondering for the entirety of the story

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and never getting emotionally invested
until right at the end we go, Oh my God,

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that's great.

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But then the story's over and it's too
late because we haven't been able to

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invest.

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So this is feedback we've given before on
Daredevils as well.

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Typically speaking,
we would advise against having a mystery

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throughout in terms of the reader not
knowing what is happening.

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There can be little bits,
aspects of mystery that keep us intrigued,

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00:49:47.676 --> 00:49:49.771
but if we don't know what's happening and
why,

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00:49:49.771 --> 00:49:53.249
if we don't know what that character
wants or what they're trying to achieve,

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then it becomes very,
very difficult to connect with them.

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And so, yes,
if you're spending a whole story waiting

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to reveal to both the characters in the
story and to us what is actually

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happening,
then that will reduce the impact of your

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story emotionally.

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But also,
if you never reveal to the reader what is

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00:50:09.731 --> 00:50:12.262
going on,
and I think it's probably not really fair

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to expect the reader to connect and
engage with something that they don't

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00:50:15.864 --> 00:50:16.399
understand.

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So these are just, I guess,
some ideas to consider when you're

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writing,
what exactly the reading experience will

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00:50:22.436 --> 00:50:24.680
be and how satisfying that is to a reader.

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00:50:24.680 --> 00:50:27.880
Because in a competition setting,
it's all about reader satisfaction.

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It's something we talk about all the time,
you know, unearned twists.

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00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:35.017
And often I find personal frustration
reading a story when the ending kind of

cb51ea0f-dec5-4b2b-a4b1-b53f5ec64dd7-1
00:50:35.017 --> 00:50:39.240
subverts what you've been reading up to
that point because you're invested in one

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00:50:39.240 --> 00:50:41.712
thing,
and then you get handed another thing in

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00:50:41.712 --> 00:50:42.639
the last sentence.

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00:50:42.920 --> 00:50:46.320
Or, as you've said,
the key elements are withheld.

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00:50:46.480 --> 00:50:48.000
And then you just find out at the end.

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00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:51.699
And it's too late to feel a connection at
that point because you've just been kind

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00:50:51.699 --> 00:50:52.680
of waiting to be told.

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00:50:52.960 --> 00:50:54.560
And now that you're told it's over.

511e8a7c-796b-4180-a284-39cfec6a1cfe-0
00:50:55.160 --> 00:51:00.051
But I think that comes from a place of
people enjoying mystery and twists in

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00:51:00.051 --> 00:51:00.560
writing.

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00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:04.320
But it really is about what you are
withholding from the reader.

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00:51:04.320 --> 00:51:08.797
And what you shouldn't be holding from
the reader is the critical information

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00:51:08.797 --> 00:51:11.840
they need to inhabit the mind of the
protagonist #1.

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00:51:11.840 --> 00:51:12.680
Like, what are they?

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00:51:12.680 --> 00:51:13.320
Who are they?

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00:51:13.320 --> 00:51:14.720
What do they want out of the scene?

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00:51:14.720 --> 00:51:16.560
Like, what are they seeking?

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00:51:16.560 --> 00:51:18.440
You're creating mystery about other
things.

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00:51:18.440 --> 00:51:18.840
Yeah.

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00:51:18.840 --> 00:51:22.028
And surprising the sometimes about the
why or about, like,

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00:51:22.028 --> 00:51:25.000
what will happen next as opposed to what
is happening.

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00:51:25.160 --> 00:51:25.480
Yeah.

7668afd8-8dc4-4a07-8c5e-b55abb5d1808-0
00:51:25.520 --> 00:51:28.480
You should never be wondering when you're
reading, like, what am I reading?

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00:51:28.480 --> 00:51:29.200
Where am I?

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00:51:29.200 --> 00:51:30.080
What is he thinking?

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00:51:30.080 --> 00:51:30.960
Who is this character?

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00:51:31.160 --> 00:51:33.000
Those are things you never want the
reader to.

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00:51:33.000 --> 00:51:35.495
And I say, you know,
you can't talk in absolutes,

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00:51:35.495 --> 00:51:38.240
but pretty much never put the reader in
that position.

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00:51:38.280 --> 00:51:38.560
Yeah.

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00:51:38.800 --> 00:51:40.760
And look,
I don't want to get too negative about

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00:51:40.760 --> 00:51:43.880
this because there are stories that did
rise to the top that did all of these

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00:51:43.880 --> 00:51:44.160
things.

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00:51:44.160 --> 00:51:46.980
And that's going to be incredibly
frustrating because we'll get to the

2ab522a9-a32e-4ae1-8005-a33ee0591fe7-1
00:51:46.980 --> 00:51:49.840
shortlist episode and the people who've
just heard themselves and gone.

db7d9706-1111-41d0-9ec0-f993ab35d26b-0
00:51:50.080 --> 00:51:50.800
Kicking myself.

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00:51:50.800 --> 00:51:51.720
I wish I hadn't done that.

21bbe628-e31a-4aa6-add3-d156b3bec7a5-0
00:51:52.200 --> 00:51:55.320
And then you hear a story like,
hang on a second, they did that.

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00:51:55.320 --> 00:51:56.040
That's not fair.

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00:51:56.400 --> 00:51:58.160
This isn't how that works, right?

aee725c2-d63e-4883-bf62-a68b2213b17a-0
00:51:58.160 --> 00:52:02.782
Some people can still manage to deliver
impact despite subverting some of those

aee725c2-d63e-4883-bf62-a68b2213b17a-1
00:52:02.782 --> 00:52:05.960
typical expectations about what works in
storytelling.

a22ae9b9-b3b3-4867-8874-babde045606b-0
00:52:05.960 --> 00:52:10.537
So we're never going to tell you you
absolutely can or can't or should or

a22ae9b9-b3b3-4867-8874-babde045606b-1
00:52:10.537 --> 00:52:11.960
shouldn't all the time.

ec721071-303f-4fb4-990a-ce0aa14e45ce-0
00:52:11.960 --> 00:52:14.120
You can absolutely do all of these things.

e8a77f39-9005-49b4-977a-29187b078cc6-0
00:52:14.440 --> 00:52:16.920
It's more about being mindful of the
impact.

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00:52:16.920 --> 00:52:19.400
From my perspective,
I learned a lot this round.

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00:52:19.440 --> 00:52:22.619
I found the stories to be very passive,
very internal,

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00:52:22.619 --> 00:52:26.955
which we have said before is typically
not the recommended way to write an

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00:52:26.955 --> 00:52:27.880
impactful story.

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00:52:28.080 --> 00:52:31.426
So if that was you,
and if you do find that you didn't make

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00:52:31.426 --> 00:52:34.996
the long list this round,
then I give you my full permission to

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00:52:34.996 --> 00:52:36.000
blame the prompts.

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00:52:37.400 --> 00:52:38.160
We would do that.

b41c91fe-ab2f-4274-a48b-4c1f7e87086e-0
00:52:38.240 --> 00:52:40.534
We would totally do prompts and the
judges,

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00:52:40.534 --> 00:52:42.360
but let's just go with the prompts.

fde53a8f-1abe-40fd-be4b-6e1a9ae5625c-0
00:52:42.360 --> 00:52:45.160
Let's do that even though they were out
idea.

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00:52:45.200 --> 00:52:49.440
All right, OK,
so just to go through the rest of the

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00:52:49.440 --> 00:52:50.880
team Yang actions.

1d6ab151-3f43-45a4-a6e1-89507b53a26d-0
00:52:50.880 --> 00:52:53.848
So as I said,
the majority of those were were truths

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00:52:53.848 --> 00:52:55.360
and secrets being revealed.

cbe22c0b-2763-42a4-8c2d-57ced3fcd145-0
00:52:56.200 --> 00:52:59.325
A few people interpreted this as to be
like revealing of a body,

cbe22c0b-2763-42a4-8c2d-57ced3fcd145-1
00:52:59.325 --> 00:53:01.200
a body being found, that kind of thing.

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00:53:01.280 --> 00:53:02.800
That's very like law and order.

c6c6926a-9f12-4701-bc95-83e1340efa46-0
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:05.532
You know,
the Jerry Orbach start of the law and

c6c6926a-9f12-4701-bc95-83e1340efa46-1
00:53:05.532 --> 00:53:07.080
order episode kind of thing.

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00:53:07.600 --> 00:53:11.367
But we had a few people doing like an
internal realisation as the reveal,

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00:53:11.367 --> 00:53:14.320
something revealing something about
yourself to yourself.

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00:53:15.080 --> 00:53:17.449
A few people with a literal
interpretation,

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00:53:17.449 --> 00:53:21.541
like an object that's being revealed,
like something that's been buried and

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00:53:21.541 --> 00:53:22.080
uncovered.

c981c8f2-18c7-4472-8ffd-c195ac7237c3-0
00:53:22.560 --> 00:53:27.053
And then a few kind of more esoteric
interpretations like a meta reveal,

c981c8f2-18c7-4472-8ffd-c195ac7237c3-1
00:53:27.053 --> 00:53:32.040
a bit of word play and using a reveal
within the structure of the story as well.

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00:53:32.040 --> 00:53:34.080
So some interesting takes there.

998dba1b-9567-46be-b559-210f7d24e02f-0
00:53:34.080 --> 00:53:37.680
A few that I want to call out
specifically from Jin.

8bc3968d-ac61-4d25-92b3-4a0f3a625d30-0
00:53:37.680 --> 00:53:44.495
We had happy Son family group chat and
they really wanted to have a character

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00:53:44.495 --> 00:53:46.680
literally say read: veal.

29c7e47d-02d3-4c37-a3e4-04eae00a5769-0
00:53:47.080 --> 00:53:53.600
So regarding veal that featured in that
story, which I thought was very fun.

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00:53:53.760 --> 00:53:54.320
That's cute.

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00:53:54.400 --> 00:53:57.876
We had from Natalie Harris in the story
Sunscape, you know,

37497a27-9898-4008-bcc1-68c322c24dd4-1
00:53:57.876 --> 00:54:00.600
leaning very heavily into the idea of the
sun.

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00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:04.280
Here we have someone going blind,
looking at the sun,

6d83ec52-54ab-4324-a713-d51fc0020639-1
00:54:04.280 --> 00:54:07.960
having the sun reveal itself to them and
going blind.

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00:54:08.040 --> 00:54:11.613
By the way, just as an aside,
does anyone remember that episode of

5366b19b-e25b-46f8-aa9d-e82c10b79640-1
00:54:11.613 --> 00:54:14.920
Neighbours when Kyle went blind because
he looked at the sun?

9997f7c3-2d2c-411b-b48c-d7de300ea51c-0
00:54:15.200 --> 00:54:18.200
That is one of my favourite all time
storylines of Neighbours.

88fcde7b-be93-45bb-bf44-b8d4832eeeaf-0
00:54:18.200 --> 00:54:21.000
It's the dumbest **** you've ever seen in
your life.

c976bc47-70d8-4207-817d-d2c442f903be-0
00:54:21.560 --> 00:54:24.800
Everyone's like there's an eclipse and
they're like, you can't look at the sun.

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00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:27.080
And Kyle's like, I'm just going to do it.

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00:54:27.080 --> 00:54:28.720
And is it what you say?

e771a051-ac99-4588-ac81-8b1a7c46151e-0
00:54:28.720 --> 00:54:30.000
You mean Karl Kyle?

38101bcc-afc1-4f9d-a35d-68a88a596fc4-0
00:54:30.000 --> 00:54:31.440
No, not not Doctor Karl.

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00:54:32.080 --> 00:54:34.030
No,
I mean my actual all time favourite

36b28001-53dc-47c3-a329-4df92e5a52ca-1
00:54:34.030 --> 00:54:35.640
episodes all feature Doctor Karl.

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00:54:35.960 --> 00:54:38.480
Anyway, so Kyle looks at the sun,
he ends up with Ben.

ccdef257-aade-4577-92ac-95edf6f3e3bd-0
00:54:38.480 --> 00:54:40.400
He must have the bandages on his eyes.

06b6f007-918e-4a59-b9d9-d3d81c8d4149-0
00:54:40.400 --> 00:54:40.720
Months.

2c36e756-b517-4214-b5f8-8f588702a640-0
00:54:40.960 --> 00:54:43.350
And then the best part is that months
later,

2c36e756-b517-4214-b5f8-8f588702a640-1
00:54:43.350 --> 00:54:47.760
like they got sick of writing the blind
character storyline and so he just healed.

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00:54:48.200 --> 00:54:49.120
He just got better.

de070060-a0f7-49f7-a801-ce5d53feac34-0
00:54:49.120 --> 00:54:51.200
They just got over and they're like,
anyway, he can see now.

c7f0ca2d-1256-4b53-9547-8d1948885c69-0
00:54:51.560 --> 00:54:52.320
And then they've moved on.

735c5a1a-864d-40d8-a6a0-fa460f61572f-0
00:54:52.320 --> 00:54:55.983
Like probably Doctor Carl did some sort
of questionable surgery on him or

735c5a1a-864d-40d8-a6a0-fa460f61572f-1
00:54:55.983 --> 00:54:58.360
something because Doctor Carl wasn't just
a GP.

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00:54:58.360 --> 00:55:00.280
Also was like all over the hospital.

fa351f54-8da6-4ca0-8e6e-2f3e93b79a75-0
00:55:00.280 --> 00:55:04.038
No matter what issue you're having,
having a baby, having a stroke,

fa351f54-8da6-4ca0-8e6e-2f3e93b79a75-1
00:55:04.038 --> 00:55:06.360
whatever it might be, Doctor Carl's there.

7f06c6cd-d3f6-4372-b95f-e1b44acccaa2-0
00:55:06.360 --> 00:55:08.320
Anyway, that's an aside.

fd372b7d-03af-418f-ab33-229c829d3559-0
00:55:08.320 --> 00:55:10.664
But quite seriously,
if you love dumb drama,

fd372b7d-03af-418f-ab33-229c829d3559-1
00:55:10.664 --> 00:55:12.280
you have to watch that episode.

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00:55:12.280 --> 00:55:13.800
It's the best thing that ever happened.

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00:55:15.920 --> 00:55:17.587
Anyway,
that's for all the Neighbours fans out

2bee7074-bc55-4689-8c08-81f93a669ff7-1
00:55:17.587 --> 00:55:17.800
there.

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00:55:17.800 --> 00:55:19.480
Hi to our UK listeners.

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00:55:21.120 --> 00:55:22.680
It's just like that's not making it.

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00:55:22.960 --> 00:55:23.440
Don't want it.

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00:55:23.440 --> 00:55:24.200
Might make it in.

b6641c8c-b79a-4bfe-bd31-2e8697d98bce-0
00:55:25.080 --> 00:55:26.080
Depends on what mood I'm in.

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00:55:27.080 --> 00:55:30.116
OK,
so a few more so from Ben Daggers in his

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00:55:30.116 --> 00:55:35.851
story Double Dare in which the characters
reveal their true feelings 30 years apart,

28745138-d622-4053-bdc3-6203c07797e2-2
00:55:35.851 --> 00:55:41.520
which I thought was a very powerful story
from Bridget Chase Hot and bothered Yoga.

77d40f5c-4c33-4289-9e88-31823ae50d7a-0
00:55:41.520 --> 00:55:45.955
Great title as well in which the main
character reveals that she slept with her

77d40f5c-4c33-4289-9e88-31823ae50d7a-1
00:55:45.955 --> 00:55:47.120
assistant last night.

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00:55:47.120 --> 00:55:48.840
That was a very memorable story.

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00:55:48.840 --> 00:55:50.880
That's hot and bothered.

3c08e4e8-f19d-4242-ad7a-88b112f6d40b-0
00:55:51.880 --> 00:55:56.151
A very unique story here by by Malcolm
McCabe, Stare at the Sun,

3c08e4e8-f19d-4242-ad7a-88b112f6d40b-1
00:55:56.151 --> 00:56:01.408
in which a character revealed their body
layer by layer to get to the source of

3c08e4e8-f19d-4242-ad7a-88b112f6d40b-2
00:56:01.408 --> 00:56:02.000
new life.

206ad0e8-944b-43ce-9ebe-04a36a5849e6-0
00:56:02.080 --> 00:56:05.480
One of those WTF stories but very
interesting.

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00:56:06.080 --> 00:56:11.182
And finally, from the one,
the only Holly Sadowski in her story,

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00:56:11.182 --> 00:56:17.463
the historic battle at Tadcaster of Sir
David and the River Serpent in the year

02200181-7daf-4e80-9eb5-6479bafc5d85-2
00:56:17.463 --> 00:56:21.545
of our Lord 1351,
I'm going to refer to Holly's own

02200181-7daf-4e80-9eb5-6479bafc5d85-3
00:56:21.545 --> 00:56:22.879
explanation here.

e0eabb44-2664-4256-a5cb-8136b760a5ac-0
00:56:22.880 --> 00:56:25.520
She says, oh God, I'm so sorry.

8d11e151-3d7d-4571-a85e-626582fa8efa-0
00:56:25.640 --> 00:56:28.880
The reveal is that the serpent has a
*****.

f18772ac-1fad-4958-853b-a6f1a0eeadd6-0
00:56:31.320 --> 00:56:32.880
So thank you, Holly, for that.

47aeaca9-c766-4075-8996-c1261b51298d-0
00:56:32.880 --> 00:56:34.360
That's a tight one, if I recall.

175b37a5-db1d-4221-adc1-720685901dda-0
00:56:34.480 --> 00:56:36.720
Yeah, that was specifically mentioned.

3a5e4e0c-6fe7-4901-bb6f-dd00c826b6bf-0
00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:40.640
And we initially rate stories and write
our own comments.

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00:56:40.960 --> 00:56:45.840
And my comment was WTF,
Holly Sadowski energy for sure.

8bf5f48e-1669-4221-868d-ede5a50328ea-0
00:56:48.960 --> 00:56:49.560
We see you.

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We see you exactly.

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So thank you so much for your story.

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So that's it for the action prompt.

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Let's talk about the kicker.

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All right, so let's get into yin.

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I've pressed my palms together in a
prayer pose because that felt that's

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00:57:03.282 --> 00:57:06.160
exactly what you're doing in the image
right in the picture.

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I'll get my foot out and stick it in the
air.

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Get your dogs out yes.

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So we're in yin territory now.

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And I did mention earlier like of course,
we had all the moons and things.

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That was the word prompt as well.

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A lot of feminine energy,
which of course we often get in the

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competition anyway.

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We did mention we often get like say 60
to 70% women entering our competition,

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but I guess in particular feminist energy
this time.

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So some typical feminist gripes kind of
being the theme of the story, I suppose.

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One thing I noticed in particular in this
round,

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and I did already mention that the
concealed thing was often a pregnancy,

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but it was also often pregnancy loss as
well.

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And we had a lot of pregnancy loss
unfortunately this round like a lot

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00:57:52.038 --> 00:57:52.800
noticeably.

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And we do often have that.

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It is of course a theme people write
about.

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It's deeply A distressing time for people.

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And so of course,
something that we like to process through

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00:58:02.915 --> 00:58:05.360
our art,
which I absolutely appreciate and honour.

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And I think people should do that if they
feel like they want to.

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I suppose as a reader,
it's difficult when you're confronted

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with a lot of that.

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But you know, each story,
we read it on its merits.

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And so absolutely doesn't matter if
you're going along with a common theme.

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If you deliver an impactful story,
then you know that's going to stand out

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from the pack on that basis.

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But I guess just, yeah,
worth noting that that was quite common.

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So now I guess before I get into,
I'm going to do some shout outs of some

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stories that I felt dealt with the yin
prompt in a really interesting way.

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But I'm going to get difficult again, OK.

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And I say it all with love.

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And I know this is going to be hard to
hear for people.

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And so brace yourselves.

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It's your own personal daredevil if you
did these things.

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But I won't call you out by name because
in fact,

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there were far too many people who went
down this path.

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And I guess I just want to be real with
you.

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Some of the challenges that we found this
round with the stories that we received.

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And the reason I want to be real with you
is because you're going to be wondering

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00:59:02.000 --> 00:59:06.262
like, why did my story maybe not resonate,
even if it was something that for me was

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00:59:06.262 --> 00:59:08.799
deeply resonant or impactful or emotional
for me?

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And I loved this story.

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This was a story that really meant
something to me.

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And then it goes nowhere.

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This might be why.

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OK.

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And so take it or leave it.

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But I guess I say this would love to
hopefully help everyone understand what

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I've come to understand this round of the
competition about how this prompt

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impacted stories in a way that left me
wanting more,

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and that is this idea of passivity.

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Okay, so yin is associated with passivity.

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That was one of the words, I guess,
that we included when we mentioned the

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different prompts in the email and so on.

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Now, one of our listeners,
near and dear to my heart,

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did mention online that we had forced
people to write passive characters

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through these prompts.

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Now,
I would challenge that because we don't

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ever force you to do anything.

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It's a prompt, You do what you want, Okay,
But the theme of passivity or the vibe of

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passivity, sure.

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That was part of the prompt,
just one part.

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But what this ended up doing with a lot
of the stories is that we had all of

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these passive characters who weren't
acting.

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So I already mentioned people who
concealed things, meaning they, I guess,

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failed to reveal.

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So they weren't acting,
they weren't revealing the thing.

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But it was other types of passivity as
well.

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So a lot of people who,
even though it was their story,

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did nothing in their story.

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Things happened around them and they had
no impact or bearing on their own story.

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Now, that's what we call character agency.

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So characters who impact the plot and
drive the plot, that's character agency.

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When a story lacks character agency,
we start to question,

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is this even this character story?

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Because they're not the hero in their own
story that is watching things happen

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01:00:46.781 --> 01:00:47.320
around them.

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So that's a challenge, but also,
I guess passivity more generally.

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Like again,
we talked before with the conceal and

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reveal prompt, if nothing's happening,
if people aren't acting,

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where is the story?

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Now,
choosing not to act can be a very

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01:01:01.924 --> 01:01:07.624
compelling and interesting thing,
but the choice in not to act has to have

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an impact Still.

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If we are still in the same place at the
end as we were at the start,

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then choosing not to act has done nothing.

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And then we question, well,
how is this a story?

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Because where is the thing that happened?

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And if nothing happened,
it's not really a story.

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And we call these vignettes.

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And it might be the most beautiful
writing in the world.

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And many stories had beautiful scene
setting or beautiful character

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01:01:30.738 --> 01:01:33.400
development,
but then everything remained static.

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That is a vignette.

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You're just giving me a snapshot of an
image.

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01:01:36.560 --> 01:01:39.464
And to me,
an image is not necessarily and usually

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01:01:39.464 --> 01:01:41.400
not what I would consider a story.

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And so it sort of lacks that impact.

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There were quite a lot of stories in Team
Amanda that I personally enjoyed from a

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01:01:48.107 --> 01:01:50.777
writing perspective,
from character perspective,

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but that didn't develop into a story for
that reason.

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It was just kind of we end the story,
we have a beautiful moment or we have

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01:01:58.250 --> 01:02:01.589
character sketch,
but there has been no no development,

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no action has taken place,
no change from the start to the end of

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the story.

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And that's a problem.

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It is, I mean, it can be.

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And look,
there were stories that succeeded.

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And I would say I noticed I guess a
little bit of a distinction between a

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01:02:15.151 --> 01:02:19.680
character who does nothing and just
watches stuff go on around them versus a

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01:02:19.680 --> 01:02:24.325
character who makes a clear choice not to
act or not to speak or not to reveal

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01:02:24.325 --> 01:02:28.560
something when they should have and when
that would have had an impact.

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01:02:28.560 --> 01:02:30.960
And now we've got a different impact as a
result.

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They've kind of almost like they're their
own worst enemy.

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They've now ruined their chance of
something.

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01:02:36.160 --> 01:02:38.960
So let's say it's a relationship thing
and we're deciding,

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01:02:38.960 --> 01:02:42.520
are we going to reveal to this person
that we're in love with them or not?

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01:02:42.560 --> 01:02:45.992
And the opportunity comes right at the
climax and every all them,

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01:02:45.992 --> 01:02:49.320
the stars are aligned and you have your
moment and you miss it.

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01:02:49.880 --> 01:02:51.160
That's a story, right?

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01:02:51.160 --> 01:02:55.316
Because you've failed to act at a time
and now it's over and your chance is gone

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01:02:55.316 --> 01:02:56.240
and what have you.

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01:02:56.640 --> 01:03:00.069
I think that's more compelling than a
character who just kind of,

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01:03:00.069 --> 01:03:01.680
the moment doesn't even arrive.

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01:03:01.680 --> 01:03:05.910
It's kind of the same as always and
they're just continuing their usual

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01:03:05.910 --> 01:03:07.320
behaviour of not acting.

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01:03:07.320 --> 01:03:11.189
And it's a, it's a subtle distinction,
but I hope people understand what I mean

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01:03:11.189 --> 01:03:11.480
there.

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01:03:11.520 --> 01:03:14.184
The difference,
I guess between making a clear choice not

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01:03:14.184 --> 01:03:17.400
to act as opposed to just coasting along
doing nothing kind of thing.

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01:03:18.160 --> 01:03:21.001
I guess another thing I would say,
and this is, you know,

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01:03:21.001 --> 01:03:24.724
in the spirit of feedback as well,
and maybe to reflect on your writing and

0645fc89-0864-4e10-affd-a2f6e7fb4802-2
01:03:24.724 --> 01:03:26.880
whether or not this was true in your
story.

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01:03:26.920 --> 01:03:30.323
What I noticed in the Yin team,
because we're sort of in this mystical

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01:03:30.323 --> 01:03:32.480
energy and what have you,
which is good fun.

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01:03:32.880 --> 01:03:37.200
I noticed a lot of metaphors and often to
do with the moon or similar.

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01:03:37.520 --> 01:03:42.569
These extended metaphors where we're
exploring an idea as it might relate to

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01:03:42.569 --> 01:03:43.160
the moon.

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01:03:43.280 --> 01:03:45.905
For example,
the phases of the moon or like aspects of

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01:03:45.905 --> 01:03:49.628
the surface of the moon or whatever it
might be when we're thinking about the

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01:03:49.628 --> 01:03:53.400
moon and we're making a metaphor about
something else, something else in life.

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01:03:53.840 --> 01:03:56.840
But the metaphor kind of never evolved
into a story.

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01:03:56.840 --> 01:04:00.798
It was kind of like a thought experiment
where we're comparing these things and

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01:04:00.798 --> 01:04:03.817
we're contrasting them and looking at it
under a microscope,

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01:04:03.817 --> 01:04:06.440
but not actually developing action within
the scene.

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01:04:06.440 --> 01:04:09.081
And again,
while that can be really beautiful and

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01:04:09.081 --> 01:04:13.043
reflective and thought provoking,
it doesn't necessarily make a compelling

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01:04:13.043 --> 01:04:13.360
story.

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01:04:13.440 --> 01:04:17.444
So maybe have a think about that if you
if you did that within your story and

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01:04:17.444 --> 01:04:20.216
think about how you can take that
beautiful metaphor,

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01:04:20.216 --> 01:04:23.091
which I love by the way,
they're often very compelling,

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01:04:23.091 --> 01:04:27.095
but then make sure that we're still also
creating a scene in which things are

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01:04:27.095 --> 01:04:29.560
happening and changing by the end of the
story.

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01:04:29.960 --> 01:04:33.097
And then finally,
I guess the one last point I wanted to

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01:04:33.097 --> 01:04:36.621
make about this, again,
feedback if you want to reflect back on

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01:04:36.621 --> 01:04:40.640
your story and how you either did or did
not stand out on this occasion.

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01:04:41.080 --> 01:04:42.960
I mentioned there were a lot of stories
about the moon.

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01:04:42.960 --> 01:04:44.640
There were a lot of stories featuring
water.

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01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:48.156
There was a lot of this beautiful
reflection, beautiful metaphors,

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01:04:48.156 --> 01:04:51.200
kind of getting deep, you know,
with some of these ideas.

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01:04:51.200 --> 01:04:52.680
So that was pretty common.

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01:04:52.680 --> 01:04:55.765
And I would just say to you,
if you don't make the long list,

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01:04:55.765 --> 01:04:59.000
maybe think about like,
what did you do to make your story stand

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01:04:59.000 --> 01:04:59.200
out?

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01:04:59.560 --> 01:05:02.504
So you might have had some beautiful
ideas there,

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01:05:02.504 --> 01:05:07.040
but what made your story stand out beyond
just lovely writing, lovely prose?

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01:05:07.480 --> 01:05:11.488
If you're relying on that moon and those
feminine vibes and we're sort of getting

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01:05:11.488 --> 01:05:12.320
into that, great.

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01:05:12.320 --> 01:05:14.200
Like that's a nice vibe to start with.

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01:05:14.720 --> 01:05:19.452
But how did you deliver an interesting
plot or an intriguing, interesting,

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01:05:19.452 --> 01:05:24.375
real feeling character who I wanted to
connect to and follow them along their

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01:05:24.375 --> 01:05:24.880
journey?

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01:05:25.200 --> 01:05:26.920
These are the ways that you grab
attention.

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01:05:26.920 --> 01:05:30.670
So you might have the perfect kind of,
I guess, base that you're working with,

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01:05:30.670 --> 01:05:32.760
which is that lovely mystical kind of
vibe.

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01:05:32.760 --> 01:05:36.493
But from that base,
what are you doing to stand out from the

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01:05:36.493 --> 01:05:36.800
pack?

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01:05:37.160 --> 01:05:40.873
So those are, I guess,
the things that I would say helped some

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01:05:40.873 --> 01:05:44.823
stories stand out very noticeably when
they were delivering story,

7c28c91d-28a8-4ac6-8c52-108d4c94e835-2
01:05:44.823 --> 01:05:48.477
I found myself saying my comments finally,
a story, you know,

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01:05:48.477 --> 01:05:50.600
instead of a vignette kind of thing.

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01:05:51.120 --> 01:05:53.913
And, you know,
I don't say that to sound ****** and I'm

a5522468-5309-41ec-91b2-12045d359695-1
01:05:53.913 --> 01:05:55.760
sure it's, you know, not fun to hear.

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01:05:55.760 --> 01:05:57.760
But This is why we do this, right?

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01:05:57.760 --> 01:06:00.000
We pull back the curtain on the judging
process.

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01:06:00.480 --> 01:06:03.440
That was my experience of it,
so make of that what you will.

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01:06:03.440 --> 01:06:07.557
But I did just want to call out a few
stories that I think did do some fun

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01:06:07.557 --> 01:06:09.040
things with the yin energy.

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01:06:09.080 --> 01:06:11.120
And look,
there were a lot of creative takes on the

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01:06:11.120 --> 01:06:13.160
yin prompt,
but I just wanted to call out a couple.

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01:06:13.160 --> 01:06:17.314
And one of those was from Jesse Dascanio,
and I hope I'm pronouncing your name

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01:06:17.314 --> 01:06:17.840
correctly.

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01:06:17.840 --> 01:06:20.677
Forgive me if I'm not in his story Hearts
with Audrey,

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01:06:20.677 --> 01:06:24.546
which I thought was particularly
interesting because it was actually a gay

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01:06:24.546 --> 01:06:25.320
romance, right?

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01:06:25.400 --> 01:06:28.670
It's a story about a gay couple in Team
Yin, Yes,

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01:06:28.670 --> 01:06:33.315
but the idea was having the Yin energy
being like the femininity of in

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01:06:33.315 --> 01:06:38.680
particular one of those male characters
that being a problem in the relationship.

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01:06:38.680 --> 01:06:41.161
You know,
he's a bit of a feminine presenting gay

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01:06:41.161 --> 01:06:41.360
man.

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01:06:41.600 --> 01:06:46.233
And that that has been at the heart of
the conflict in terms of introducing the

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01:06:46.233 --> 01:06:48.840
partner to mum,
who is Audrey in that story.

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01:06:48.840 --> 01:06:52.720
So I thought that was an interesting and
unique take on the Yin prompt.

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01:06:52.720 --> 01:06:56.080
And again, like this is, you know,
how you can stand out to by just doing

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01:06:56.080 --> 01:06:58.760
something a little bit different to maybe
what's expected.

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01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:03.901
I just wanted to also call out Last Night
of the Wolf Bros by and I believe it's

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01:07:03.901 --> 01:07:04.720
Malta Springer.

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01:07:04.720 --> 01:07:07.487
Apologies again if I'm mispronouncing
your name,

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01:07:07.487 --> 01:07:10.480
but this was another interesting take on
the kicker.

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So the moon featured prominently,
which it did in many stories,

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01:07:13.850 --> 01:07:14.640
as I mentioned.

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But the story again, was about men, right?

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01:07:17.360 --> 01:07:21.989
But we're talking about performative
masculinity and men that you would

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01:07:21.989 --> 01:07:24.240
describe maybe as soft and passive.

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01:07:24.480 --> 01:07:27.915
So this is where Malta took this
particular one,

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01:07:27.915 --> 01:07:31.000
subverting those common gender
stereotypes.

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01:07:31.000 --> 01:07:33.280
And I think a few people wanted to do
that with this.

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01:07:33.320 --> 01:07:34.560
And I love that, right?

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01:07:34.560 --> 01:07:37.680
I love that we've presented you with this
gender binary and you've gone.

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01:07:37.680 --> 01:07:38.200
Hang on.

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01:07:38.240 --> 01:07:39.760
No, I'm going to challenge that.

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01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:40.680
And that's really cool.

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01:07:41.080 --> 01:07:44.960
So even though it was a male centric
story, it's appeared in,

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01:07:44.960 --> 01:07:47.840
I guess the feminine half of the
competition.

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01:07:48.160 --> 01:07:52.175
And I'd love to see that and I love to
see how we play with these ideas and how

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01:07:52.175 --> 01:07:53.480
we use them to inspire us.

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01:07:53.480 --> 01:07:54.720
So thank you for that story.

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01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:58.755
And then Danielle Carlson in her story
Complicit, again,

6a55d9e0-ac12-4db4-8cd5-f4faea24c968-1
01:07:58.755 --> 01:08:01.811
another interesting take on the yin
prompt here,

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01:08:01.811 --> 01:08:06.801
where she was looking at women who are
normally passive but finally standing up

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01:08:06.801 --> 01:08:07.799
to their abuser.

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01:08:07.800 --> 01:08:10.744
And of course,
we often get stories about family

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01:08:10.744 --> 01:08:14.831
violence and similar in the competition,
But we're looking at like,

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01:08:14.831 --> 01:08:18.137
I guess this idea of pushing someone
beyond the brink,

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01:08:18.137 --> 01:08:19.880
and maybe we've been passive.

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01:08:19.880 --> 01:08:23.920
And what does it take to crack and to
move over to the other side?

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01:08:24.320 --> 01:08:28.538
And what Danielle said in her comments
here were the more I thought about it,

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01:08:28.538 --> 01:08:32.920
the more I liked the idea of silence and
passivity being its own kind of weapon.

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01:08:32.920 --> 01:08:36.200
Sometimes the best course of action is
doing nothing at all.

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01:08:36.400 --> 01:08:38.200
And that is true, right?

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01:08:38.200 --> 01:08:41.615
So again, you know,
we challenge some of those ideas in terms

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01:08:41.615 --> 01:08:44.864
of doing nothing,
but if we're actively doing nothing with

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01:08:44.864 --> 01:08:48.280
an intention and with an impact,
then that can be compelling.

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01:08:48.640 --> 01:08:53.160
And the last story I just wanted to call
out was Made With Love by Anne Emmeloch.

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01:08:53.240 --> 01:08:57.920
And this was a story about motherhood and
coldness combined.

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01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:01.140
So we've got this idea of the feminine
energy of motherhood,

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01:09:01.140 --> 01:09:04.520
but also this coldness,
this darkness that comes within energy.

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01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:10.000
And of course, not all mothers are loving,
kind, maternal type of mothers.

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01:09:10.280 --> 01:09:15.462
So NM in this story has combined the
femininity and the cold to kind of look

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01:09:15.462 --> 01:09:17.280
at a dark mother character.

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01:09:17.280 --> 01:09:20.380
And I thought that was really interesting
as well,

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01:09:20.380 --> 01:09:25.184
the idea of a motherhood when it becomes
obsessive and chilling and, you know,

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01:09:25.184 --> 01:09:26.400
controlling as well.

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01:09:26.400 --> 01:09:31.360
So I found that to be a compelling and
interesting approach to the imprompt.

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01:09:31.360 --> 01:09:34.818
So thank you to all Team Amanda members
and I know it's,

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01:09:34.818 --> 01:09:38.520
it's been a bit of tough love here,
so I apologise for that.

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01:09:38.520 --> 01:09:42.760
But also that's my motherly instincts and
my coldness coming out together.

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01:09:42.840 --> 01:09:45.000
Yeah, they do go hand in hand at times.

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01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:48.823
So all said with real love though,
because I do want you all to do well in

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01:09:48.823 --> 01:09:52.240
the competition and like I said,
you can do well with those ideas.

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01:09:52.320 --> 01:09:54.280
It's just something to reflect on.

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01:09:54.680 --> 01:09:55.040
Absolutely.

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01:09:55.280 --> 01:09:59.570
Well, I think by and large Team Ed,
Team Yang avoided some of those pitfalls

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01:09:59.570 --> 01:10:03.080
for the same reasons that we discussed
with the action prompt.

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01:10:03.200 --> 01:10:08.167
So a lot of the stories feature as the
representation of the Yang energy,

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01:10:08.167 --> 01:10:12.328
this idea of motion and sometimes like a
desperation as well,

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01:10:12.328 --> 01:10:17.900
which is again drives a plot forward and
creates tension and interest and all that

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01:10:17.900 --> 01:10:18.840
kind of thing.

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01:10:19.400 --> 01:10:21.080
That was definitely one of the aspects.

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01:10:21.080 --> 01:10:24.295
Another one,
probably the largest percentage of

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01:10:24.295 --> 01:10:29.586
stories took this approach and they
featured masculinity or male protagonists,

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01:10:29.586 --> 01:10:32.802
you know,
often in like a highly active role as

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01:10:32.802 --> 01:10:37.960
well, aggressive, aggressive sometimes,
yes, absolutely, sometimes violence.

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01:10:37.960 --> 01:10:43.056
And there were actually a few,
a good handful of like critiques of toxic

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01:10:43.056 --> 01:10:46.686
masculinity,
turning it on on its head and exposing

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01:10:46.686 --> 01:10:49.200
the flaws perhaps of a Yang outlook.

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01:10:49.400 --> 01:10:53.889
You just waved your hand in such a yin
way just now when you when you say I was,

dbefbd69-f2f3-4b70-89ee-afcf6ba80851-1
01:10:53.889 --> 01:10:57.936
I was trying to do air points and and
coupled with masculinity and mount

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01:10:57.936 --> 01:11:01.040
protagonists and aggression and all that
kind of thing.

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01:11:01.240 --> 01:11:07.910
The other huge feature linked to the word
prompt was this idea of sun heat, fire,

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01:11:07.910 --> 01:11:08.480
warmth.

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01:11:08.480 --> 01:11:14.755
So a lot of stories set in like deserts,
a lot of fires, actually several sun gods,

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01:11:14.755 --> 01:11:20.060
a lot of this ritual sacrifice idea
coming through in several stories,

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01:11:20.060 --> 01:11:21.480
cremations as well.

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01:11:21.480 --> 01:11:24.880
So all of that kind of energy coming
through.

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01:11:25.080 --> 01:11:31.006
So just to call out a few notable
examples of some unique or noteworthy

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01:11:31.006 --> 01:11:35.040
takes,
we had the story Final Shift from Romani.

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01:11:35.040 --> 01:11:42.480
Jane and Romano's explored this idea that
yin is even and Yang is odd as well.

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01:11:42.480 --> 01:11:46.742
So I think is the only story that did
that and using a number,

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01:11:46.742 --> 01:11:49.787
an odd number as the catalyst in that
story,

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01:11:49.787 --> 01:11:55.200
hence that being Yang energy from the
story Stare at the Sun by Malcolm McCabe.

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01:11:55.200 --> 01:11:59.890
And my comment for this was major Yang
energy because it kind of really dripped

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01:11:59.890 --> 01:12:00.360
through.

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01:12:00.360 --> 01:12:05.747
And this was one of those ritualistic
sacrifice type situations, not exactly,

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01:12:05.747 --> 01:12:10.720
but very much sun violence kind of energy
coming through on that story.

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01:12:11.000 --> 01:12:11.440
That's hot.

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01:12:15.080 --> 01:12:18.000
You're picturing something very different,
I believe, right now.

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01:12:18.040 --> 01:12:22.067
Amanda,
the story Nuptial flight by Christina

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01:12:22.067 --> 01:12:22.680
Wilson.

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01:12:23.160 --> 01:12:26.732
There may be in others,
but I think this is the only one that

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01:12:26.732 --> 01:12:30.939
featured a character called Yang,
who in this case was a drone bee whose

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01:12:30.939 --> 01:12:33.360
sole purpose is to mate just like any man.

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01:12:34.880 --> 01:12:37.760
Isn't that like that movie,
The Bee Movie with Jerry Simon?

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01:12:37.760 --> 01:12:38.840
You know, I haven't seen the Bee Movie.

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01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:41.120
Oh, listen, I went to that movie.

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01:12:41.160 --> 01:12:44.600
I believe it was me and Andy's first date,
if I'm not mistaken.

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01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:46.280
It doesn't hold up.

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01:12:46.280 --> 01:12:48.080
Well,
I'm not sure it was good at the time.

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01:12:48.280 --> 01:12:52.791
It's beastiality movie,
a beastiality movie alright,

e8564e8d-e841-4232-82fe-863af7745caa-1
01:12:52.791 --> 01:12:54.920
and I don't recommend it.

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01:12:55.800 --> 01:12:56.720
It's not first, will you?

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01:12:56.720 --> 01:12:58.000
It's not great first, I mean.

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01:12:58.040 --> 01:13:01.412
Well, listen,
maybe that Yang energy was going off,

90ac40b9-bada-4041-896a-32a40a2e72fb-1
01:13:01.412 --> 01:13:02.320
but I digress.

f714a922-7b9b-4158-aa26-a61e073b6103-0
01:13:02.320 --> 01:13:06.891
Anyway,
you're in your old world now from once

f714a922-7b9b-4158-aa26-a61e073b6103-1
01:13:06.891 --> 01:13:10.880
again happy son family group chat by Jin.

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01:13:11.120 --> 01:13:16.575
This one featured Cantonese food culture
with hot Yang versus cold food and this

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01:13:16.575 --> 01:13:19.000
idea of keeping the body in balance.

d5d249a8-f155-4aa1-bc21-5d9b9bb2dc0b-0
01:13:19.000 --> 01:13:23.945
So very culturally driven story there
final departure by Michelle Ryan where

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01:13:23.945 --> 01:13:28.826
the Yang energy comes through the
characters desperate attempt to reach her

d5d249a8-f155-4aa1-bc21-5d9b9bb2dc0b-2
01:13:28.826 --> 01:13:30.240
father before he dies.

8ab74ca2-fdf0-4fbd-a875-e9cc5efaf20a-0
01:13:30.240 --> 01:13:33.716
So again,
this idea of desperation and striving

8ab74ca2-fdf0-4fbd-a875-e9cc5efaf20a-1
01:13:33.716 --> 01:13:35.600
towards a goal, very Yang.

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01:13:36.240 --> 01:13:40.252
And finally,
perhaps the ultimate Yang expression in

a839f289-6ab3-4da7-9fc5-16917d4195a7-1
01:13:40.252 --> 01:13:45.400
the story Sandworm by Steve Huff,
which is literally about a penis.

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01:13:45.720 --> 01:13:47.866
Oh well,
it wouldn't be a not quite right a

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01:13:47.866 --> 01:13:49.720
competition without a penis, would it?

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01:13:50.240 --> 01:13:51.600
And it wasn't the only penis.

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01:13:51.600 --> 01:13:52.960
It wasn't the only penis.

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01:13:53.000 --> 01:13:54.440
We do love a penis POV.

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01:13:54.720 --> 01:13:55.720
You're not quite right.

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01:13:57.360 --> 01:13:59.511
I thought I'd just not respond to that
and see,

e4d05056-b125-455d-8381-96efbd12c891-1
01:13:59.511 --> 01:14:01.080
you're just gonna leave me hanging.

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01:14:01.120 --> 01:14:01.680
Thank you.

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01:14:02.400 --> 01:14:03.600
You're just gonna cut it off at.

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01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:04.440
We do love a penis.

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01:14:04.560 --> 01:14:05.280
You know what I mean?

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01:14:05.440 --> 01:14:06.640
And then you're gonna cut in some.

0ae92d34-67f0-4309-8a17-42b0e91c077e-0
01:14:06.680 --> 01:14:10.560
What I'm gonna do is splice that audio in
like every 5 minutes.

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01:14:11.920 --> 01:14:13.520
Yeah, just we do love a penis.

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01:14:13.560 --> 01:14:13.880
That's it.

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01:14:13.880 --> 01:14:14.760
Followed by silence.

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01:14:19.480 --> 01:14:19.720
Oh, dear.

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01:14:19.800 --> 01:14:23.772
All right, well, many more to mention,
but in the interest of time,

f6171e9a-f29a-4492-82a5-558f08650aa4-1
01:14:23.772 --> 01:14:26.926
let's move on,
I think to our favourite lines and our

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01:14:26.926 --> 01:14:27.920
favourite titles.

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01:14:27.920 --> 01:14:28.640
Let's do it.

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01:14:28.640 --> 01:14:32.360
So in Team Amanda,
like just a little behind the scenes.

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01:14:32.560 --> 01:14:35.933
What I like to do is when I start judging,
I pretty much just read the first story

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01:14:35.933 --> 01:14:37.640
straight away because I can't help myself.

ec47d659-3912-44df-b42c-c85297bb6002-0
01:14:38.200 --> 01:14:41.916
And then I look at all the stories and I
just look at all the titles and I get

ec47d659-3912-44df-b42c-c85297bb6002-1
01:14:41.916 --> 01:14:45.680
very excited about certain titles and
sometimes I can't help but click on them.

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01:14:45.680 --> 01:14:47.979
Can I ask,
are you the kind of person that when you

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01:14:47.979 --> 01:14:50.854
have like a delicious meal,
you'll eat the most delicious things

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01:14:50.854 --> 01:14:51.120
first?

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01:14:51.120 --> 01:14:51.600
Yes.

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01:14:51.640 --> 01:14:52.680
OK, that's me.

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01:14:52.960 --> 01:14:55.046
All right,
so here are some of the titles that stood

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01:14:55.046 --> 01:14:55.440
out to me.

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01:14:55.520 --> 01:14:58.626
We had from Emily Rinkamar,
once he stops throwing up,

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01:14:58.626 --> 01:15:02.920
Eddie Vedder and I are going to be all
right, which was a compelling title.

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01:15:03.200 --> 01:15:05.420
And of course,
I didn't know that authors when I was

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01:15:05.420 --> 01:15:07.640
reading the titles,
but I'll shout them all out now.

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01:15:07.920 --> 01:15:10.920
From AC Stewart,
we had a pony called Pickle.

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01:15:11.360 --> 01:15:12.160
She's very cute.

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01:15:12.960 --> 01:15:15.400
And I can just picture the pony called
Pickle actually.

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01:15:15.640 --> 01:15:17.680
From WJ Arthur, former winner.

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01:15:17.960 --> 01:15:21.120
We had the shame of Hot rubber melting
between my legs.

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01:15:21.920 --> 01:15:24.000
So that was like, what is this about?

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01:15:24.080 --> 01:15:27.960
And well,
it's about wetting the bed really.

eb3d9a10-719c-4020-b5b2-c7b3cb694541-0
01:15:28.000 --> 01:15:30.977
Namely,
that's the the main theme of that story

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01:15:30.977 --> 01:15:32.280
we had from Lena Ram.

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01:15:32.400 --> 01:15:36.320
When all else fails, go online,
which just feels like your mantra.

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01:15:36.320 --> 01:15:37.160
It's my mantra.

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01:15:37.160 --> 01:15:40.120
It's probably the worst life advice you
could possibly imagine.

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01:15:40.360 --> 01:15:41.600
From Sandra Peters.

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01:15:41.600 --> 01:15:43.400
We had midnight poutine.

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01:15:43.760 --> 01:15:45.680
So shout out to all the Canadians.

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01:15:45.800 --> 01:15:46.840
Poutine's not for me.

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01:15:46.960 --> 01:15:48.360
What is protein poutine?

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01:15:48.360 --> 01:15:50.553
I thought we've talked about this,
I don't know,

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01:15:50.553 --> 01:15:52.120
but it's literally chips and gravy.

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01:15:52.120 --> 01:15:53.560
So we have that here.

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01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:55.000
It's called chips and gravy.

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01:15:55.200 --> 01:15:55.800
It's not for me.

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01:15:56.000 --> 01:15:57.720
Don't sully my chips with gravy.

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01:15:57.960 --> 01:16:00.320
Oh, and sorry,
and cheese curd and cheese curd.

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01:16:00.800 --> 01:16:01.360
Step too far.

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01:16:01.440 --> 01:16:03.564
Well,
I was on board with the gravy and then

25a2c2b8-f2e9-477f-8caa-9c2c7675217a-1
01:16:03.564 --> 01:16:04.320
the cheese curd.

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01:16:04.360 --> 01:16:05.320
I've never experienced that.

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01:16:05.320 --> 01:16:06.440
I feel like you'd love it.

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01:16:06.440 --> 01:16:09.760
A whole country loves it and I think
you'd love it from Keith Charles.

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01:16:09.760 --> 01:16:14.120
We have till the coals go out,
which I just felt was vibe.

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01:16:14.120 --> 01:16:18.280
It's one of those titles that feels vibe
from Cassandra Valesky.

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01:16:18.280 --> 01:16:23.360
We had Ubliet which is just a labyrinth
trigger for me.

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01:16:23.360 --> 01:16:29.584
So we say the word Ubliet and all I can
picture is David Bowies bulge,

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01:16:29.584 --> 01:16:33.880
which is colloquially referred to as the
Ubliet.

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01:16:34.960 --> 01:16:37.415
No, I'm sorry to drag you down with me,
Cassandra,

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01:16:37.415 --> 01:16:40.400
but it it was giving labyrinth vibes,
which I did appreciate.

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01:16:40.440 --> 01:16:42.560
It doesn't take much to it's send you
down there.

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01:16:42.560 --> 01:16:43.600
Literally takes nothing.

521b631e-b7bf-4a8f-bb8d-c00cc3361df7-0
01:16:43.600 --> 01:16:46.108
Next time, guys,
just call your story Tom Holland's

521b631e-b7bf-4a8f-bb8d-c00cc3361df7-1
01:16:46.108 --> 01:16:48.280
umbrella performance or something like
that.

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01:16:48.280 --> 01:16:49.080
Don't do that.

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01:16:49.080 --> 01:16:50.640
Now I'm gonna get 10 stories called that.

c20b4b69-e0ed-4d68-b8a2-2c3f5fc61e75-0
01:16:50.640 --> 01:16:52.720
But anyway, moving on.

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01:16:52.760 --> 01:16:58.240
I know Holly Sadowski is taking notes
right from Douglas Baumann.

5ab26b46-22b0-4e1f-b3c0-5ce6b0c14206-0
01:16:58.240 --> 01:17:02.000
We had that time I saw Ginny Henderson's
***.

5f4ebb62-badb-4101-a525-d8f18bebe464-0
01:17:02.800 --> 01:17:06.440
So that was one of those mooning stories
that did happen.

4c71f512-d0ab-40c4-a289-942d36959355-0
01:17:06.440 --> 01:17:07.360
Thank you, Douglas.

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01:17:07.720 --> 01:17:11.295
And finally,
Linda Atkins with Pack Up the Moon and

202b03e9-06fc-4adf-b24e-59579b9c85fd-1
01:17:11.295 --> 01:17:15.078
Dismantle the Sun,
which to be fair is a little bit of

202b03e9-06fc-4adf-b24e-59579b9c85fd-2
01:17:15.078 --> 01:17:17.760
plagiarism, but it is a beautiful poem.

3511a7a1-5a4e-4930-9947-b1322c81d34d-0
01:17:17.760 --> 01:17:22.415
That's the Stop All the Clocks Yes poem,
which is a lovely reference that I

3511a7a1-5a4e-4930-9947-b1322c81d34d-1
01:17:22.415 --> 01:17:26.212
appreciated as well,
and also obviously quite relevant to the

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01:17:26.212 --> 01:17:27.560
prompts of this round.

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01:17:27.560 --> 01:17:28.520
So thank you, Linda.

c78ad929-1379-4616-b60e-8d3f358814b3-0
01:17:28.880 --> 01:17:30.588
Ed,
did you want to share your favourite

c78ad929-1379-4616-b60e-8d3f358814b3-1
01:17:30.588 --> 01:17:30.880
titles?

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01:17:30.920 --> 01:17:31.480
Absolutely.

1e896079-297d-4d24-9467-54a220346146-0
01:17:31.480 --> 01:17:33.400
Well,
I didn't have as many stories as you.

6b756c5e-9256-4a76-a719-18d1cc3e59ac-0
01:17:33.400 --> 01:17:36.361
Well,
so I don't have as many titles to shout

6b756c5e-9256-4a76-a719-18d1cc3e59ac-1
01:17:36.361 --> 01:17:39.386
out,
but some notable ones when you talk about

6b756c5e-9256-4a76-a719-18d1cc3e59ac-2
01:17:39.386 --> 01:17:43.120
stories that make you jump at the chance
of reading them.

6dc024b1-caeb-4236-abbb-ba49654ce0f1-0
01:17:43.120 --> 01:17:45.657
This one, I think,
was near the top of the order that I was

6dc024b1-caeb-4236-abbb-ba49654ce0f1-1
01:17:45.657 --> 01:17:46.800
approaching this list from.

44096365-0f24-4ea9-a2a5-d9f56e5dc3b6-0
01:17:46.800 --> 01:17:53.640
But it was **** nugget Boys by an author
who goes by the name of just some guy.

0b55a931-f117-4d90-a8ad-1e29323b1179-0
01:17:54.640 --> 01:17:54.920
Yeah.

fd1caf76-b004-49ac-922a-3c2ed2ef1a72-0
01:17:54.920 --> 01:17:58.600
And you would use a pseudonym for a story
like that on the same line.

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01:17:58.600 --> 01:18:00.240
And look, this is Yang energy here.

02d7c0e5-8a50-4036-beb5-ee6ac5cf6c49-0
01:18:00.240 --> 01:18:02.120
People on my team are not depraved.

90dc14a6-54b0-46a7-a58a-5b6545d54ed4-0
01:18:02.280 --> 01:18:03.120
They just are.

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01:18:03.120 --> 01:18:05.680
You sure it's Yang energy, Amanda?

24a5ccc1-3fb9-456b-869c-f549bf5b6d18-0
01:18:05.680 --> 01:18:07.990
Alright,
that's what we're calling service of the

24a5ccc1-3fb9-456b-869c-f549bf5b6d18-1
01:18:07.990 --> 01:18:08.360
prompts.

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01:18:09.440 --> 01:18:13.760
The next story is called It's a Penis
Joke by Cordell Salvari.

dbeb8d34-a9c2-4e06-9743-f87713b30bb9-0
01:18:13.960 --> 01:18:17.880
And yes, it was a penis joke,
so it paid off the title.

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01:18:18.040 --> 01:18:21.000
I enjoyed this one by Natalie McLean.

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01:18:21.080 --> 01:18:23.760
It was always burning since the world's
been turning.

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01:18:24.080 --> 01:18:27.640
Obviously referencing the Billy Joel
classic Billy Joel song.

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01:18:27.640 --> 01:18:28.720
We didn't start the fire.

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01:18:28.800 --> 01:18:30.600
Another bit of gentle plagiarism.

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01:18:30.600 --> 01:18:31.280
Love to see it.

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01:18:32.440 --> 01:18:33.000
It's not a bit harsh.

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01:18:33.000 --> 01:18:33.760
It's a little bit harsh.

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01:18:34.600 --> 01:18:39.838
I enjoyed Down in the Ground where the
Dead Men Go by Dougie Squires,

71b790f7-605b-4a0d-a7ca-7b761e2e798f-1
01:18:39.838 --> 01:18:43.880
a very provocative title that makes you
want to read.

2e6eedb9-bc55-4de3-86e7-9cd3e1a1441c-0
01:18:44.120 --> 01:18:46.920
Another singer referenced you had Eddie
Vedder,

2e6eedb9-bc55-4de3-86e7-9cd3e1a1441c-1
01:18:46.920 --> 01:18:51.062
I had Meat Loaf and the persuasive
implementation of wishes and Karmic

2e6eedb9-bc55-4de3-86e7-9cd3e1a1441c-2
01:18:51.062 --> 01:18:53.280
Universal balanced by Trevor Flanagan.

d66051e5-bbd9-47ca-b937-a887fda038cd-0
01:18:53.280 --> 01:18:55.986
All right, well,
both of those artists feature on my

d66051e5-bbd9-47ca-b937-a887fda038cd-1
01:18:55.986 --> 01:18:58.080
personal liked songs playlist on Spotify.

b0ee431b-d797-4496-81d0-978de47f1169-0
01:18:58.120 --> 01:19:02.320
So approved tic tic support of those and
Billy Joel and Billy Joel.

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01:19:02.440 --> 01:19:03.600
Yeah, another one.

27294c29-5458-4800-9d1f-5643baa12f47-0
01:19:03.600 --> 01:19:06.960
She sells something by the Seashore by SL
Rennie.

d45da7cd-28de-42c0-bd19-6df455af1122-0
01:19:06.960 --> 01:19:09.908
As always,
I love a little bit of A twist on a well

d45da7cd-28de-42c0-bd19-6df455af1122-1
01:19:09.908 --> 01:19:12.516
known saying or,
or an idiom or in this case,

d45da7cd-28de-42c0-bd19-6df455af1122-2
01:19:12.516 --> 01:19:13.480
a tongue twister.

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01:19:13.640 --> 01:19:14.160
That's right.

2289d54d-56bd-4cf8-8703-ed88ffc8bcb7-0
01:19:15.080 --> 01:19:15.840
But that's all I have.

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01:19:19.000 --> 01:19:20.280
I'm so sorry.

5b0b8296-6de5-4aa8-9e3d-e4db5b6f00ae-0
01:19:21.920 --> 01:19:22.920
I'll just go and cry.

0d061a87-4988-4206-ab6e-2fcb1344aba0-0
01:19:24.760 --> 01:19:26.974
All right, well,
let's get into favourite lines because I

0d061a87-4988-4206-ab6e-2fcb1344aba0-1
01:19:26.974 --> 01:19:28.960
know you had some great lines in your
team as well.

8d6e752a-6143-4e22-82f5-d634d040fbd9-0
01:19:28.960 --> 01:19:30.400
But we'll start with Team Yin.

033d1a14-c2a7-4706-8d54-15174380ffd7-0
01:19:30.600 --> 01:19:33.920
So from Jonathan Dawson,
who I mentioned previously with that

033d1a14-c2a7-4706-8d54-15174380ffd7-1
01:19:33.920 --> 01:19:37.079
lovely story about the moon becoming a
tourist attraction,

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01:19:37.079 --> 01:19:40.400
the Celestial Rescue near the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.

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01:19:40.920 --> 01:19:44.633
And that was the opening line,
which was she'd stuffed the moon up her

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01:19:44.633 --> 01:19:45.000
jumper.

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01:19:46.000 --> 01:19:48.985
And shout out here to the whimsy
competition,

2e3a95ff-c20a-433a-b025-ff71020298e3-1
01:19:48.985 --> 01:19:53.917
the new whimsy riding competition,
because I feel like that line just slots

2e3a95ff-c20a-433a-b025-ff71020298e3-2
01:19:53.917 --> 01:19:55.280
perfectly over there.

fbbae572-8f39-4174-b538-2269dd51e16e-0
01:19:55.280 --> 01:19:58.680
Just very whimsical idea that you could
stuff an entire moon up your jumper.

d532d25f-088f-43b0-9801-2a85297b9bbd-0
01:19:59.360 --> 01:20:03.200
From Andy Blakely,
Sterling with the best Orion elite.

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01:20:03.200 --> 01:20:04.840
And again, this was a first line.

89ad53e3-b825-4b39-b172-c22d2c568054-0
01:20:05.120 --> 01:20:09.320
The frigid water made my ******* so sharp,
my daggers now felt redundant.

31096dd2-3a94-422b-a15b-691503309ade-0
01:20:11.640 --> 01:20:15.480
Good fun from Michael Stone with trinket
in a tin.

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01:20:15.720 --> 01:20:19.071
It's funny Paul can still picture her
back then,

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01:20:19.071 --> 01:20:24.680
24 years old and as love manages to do,
made pretty from all that made her plain.

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01:20:24.880 --> 01:20:29.696
Which I think is a really lovely way of
expressing just love in general I guess,

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01:20:29.696 --> 01:20:31.600
and how you can experience that.

ae2908d9-4b5a-4601-9fdd-5fce2b32dcc7-0
01:20:32.040 --> 01:20:34.920
From Aileen Wallace, with the pianist.

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01:20:35.440 --> 01:20:36.120
The pianist?

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01:20:36.160 --> 01:20:36.520
Pianist.

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01:20:36.600 --> 01:20:38.284
Yeah,
just the penis would have been on my

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01:20:38.284 --> 01:20:38.520
teeth.

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01:20:38.520 --> 01:20:39.720
This is yin energy.

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01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:41.320
So we're playing the piano.

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01:20:41.880 --> 01:20:44.120
The audience sighed and murmured.

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01:20:44.360 --> 01:20:48.663
They rose to their feet as one,
their applause washing over the stage,

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01:20:48.663 --> 01:20:52.240
landing in waves,
drowning the sound of the pianist uncle.

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01:20:52.520 --> 01:20:54.560
As her fingers flew across the keys.

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01:20:54.960 --> 01:20:58.600
She smiled,
bowed her head and wished them dead.

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01:20:59.280 --> 01:21:00.640
We love a good pianist to hear it.

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01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:05.560
Not quite,
I just love that turn that that took.

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01:21:05.560 --> 01:21:10.738
So we're just opening with this idea of
like a sort of a piano recital or some

05d831af-0b73-4949-82a5-361f4b05e503-1
01:21:10.738 --> 01:21:15.983
kind of performance and then this drama
of not wanting to be there I think is a

05d831af-0b73-4949-82a5-361f4b05e503-2
01:21:15.983 --> 01:21:19.720
great way to set up intrigue at the start
of your story.

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01:21:20.040 --> 01:21:22.520
From Delina Shields with the date.

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01:21:22.520 --> 01:21:25.520
This was a literal lol for me,
so I'll share it with you all.

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01:21:25.520 --> 01:21:28.080
And maybe you lol, maybe you don't,
but know that I did.

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01:21:29.280 --> 01:21:31.080
Sorry, I didn't quite catch that.

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01:21:31.440 --> 01:21:33.600
Ben raised her chair back to upright.

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01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:35.240
You can rinse and spit now.

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01:21:35.720 --> 01:21:37.560
This was Lily's least favourite part.

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01:21:37.880 --> 01:21:40.040
It was impossible to look attractive
while spitting.

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01:21:40.560 --> 01:21:42.963
At her last appointment,
she'd swallowed instead,

de162239-9fd7-4d3d-9d7b-0ee425443e9a-1
01:21:42.963 --> 01:21:46.040
but Ben had been distressed and confused
rather than turned on.

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01:21:47.120 --> 01:21:48.240
What is it about this country?

8d06c729-50c2-4de3-976a-c3332e99f6f2-0
01:21:48.240 --> 01:21:52.988
There's a lot of like,
sexy dentist stories that we see by every

8d06c729-50c2-4de3-976a-c3332e99f6f2-1
01:21:52.988 --> 01:21:55.400
round, and I did lol at that one.

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01:21:55.400 --> 01:22:00.280
So thank you Delina and from the story
The Moons Gaze by Peter McDonald.

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01:22:00.280 --> 01:22:03.200
This one was just really evocative
description.

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01:22:03.200 --> 01:22:05.616
I found this quite, I don't know,
really got my attention,

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01:22:05.616 --> 01:22:06.600
I suppose you would say.

50b8cc18-d257-4bc6-9bb2-49a8aea87cda-0
01:22:07.520 --> 01:22:10.060
Francis,
who had found the old book at an estate

50b8cc18-d257-4bc6-9bb2-49a8aea87cda-1
01:22:10.060 --> 01:22:10.320
sale.

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01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:14.167
Her rib cage reached up through her chest
like an extra set of arms,

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01:22:14.167 --> 01:22:16.960
forever reaching for something she would
never grasp.

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01:22:17.640 --> 01:22:21.213
Like this is one of the beautiful things
in a writing competition when you read

7b5bb010-f2d7-409a-accb-805c30428bb2-1
01:22:21.213 --> 01:22:23.000
sentences that you've never read before.

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01:22:23.000 --> 01:22:25.922
You've never thought that thing before,
but you can picture it,

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01:22:25.922 --> 01:22:27.520
and it just feels so real and true.

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01:22:27.520 --> 01:22:29.880
And that is the kind of writing I love to
see.

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01:22:29.880 --> 01:22:30.800
So thank you, Peter.

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01:22:31.120 --> 01:22:34.126
And finally,
from Betsy Mallaud in the story Field

3f44e6cd-d268-41c5-95c4-3a90378d44e8-1
01:22:34.126 --> 01:22:34.480
notes.

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01:22:34.920 --> 01:22:39.360
And this was about a child who is aware
that his parents are fighting.

eb53e127-3e3a-4500-a7e4-9b7b9082e133-0
01:22:40.120 --> 01:22:42.960
That night,
Sam found Willow waiting by the fence.

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01:22:43.280 --> 01:22:47.692
He told her first before he'd told anyone,
before he'd even told himself,

e44f01e5-838d-430c-86ea-1302599f4df7-1
01:22:47.692 --> 01:22:49.720
I think they're getting a divorce.

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01:22:50.200 --> 01:22:53.759
And I just found that really gripping,
like, before he'd even told himself,

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01:22:53.759 --> 01:22:54.040
right.

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01:22:54.040 --> 01:22:56.570
This,
this child who's trying to come to grips

3dc0f302-7774-454a-88aa-c420c7d1936c-1
01:22:56.570 --> 01:22:59.800
with something very beautifully and
evocatively told there.

3aaa1faa-7276-4a88-8488-aa3441bf82ac-0
01:22:59.800 --> 01:23:03.048
So thank you, Betsy,
but I know there were some wonderful

3aaa1faa-7276-4a88-8488-aa3441bf82ac-1
01:23:03.048 --> 01:23:06.352
lines in the very,
very small and poorly populated Team Ed

3aaa1faa-7276-4a88-8488-aa3441bf82ac-2
01:23:06.352 --> 01:23:06.800
as well.

72dc4c5d-4c16-4be2-b148-7a6bbdaa1f09-0
01:23:06.800 --> 01:23:09.920
So please do share with us your thoughts.

7cd18d5d-3ee4-41f0-8db9-4ff7efd88e78-0
01:23:10.120 --> 01:23:11.280
What a way to put it.

66783788-60d7-4529-966b-849c558390f2-0
01:23:11.280 --> 01:23:12.680
Thank you so much, Amanda.

6d41c4a2-1d84-4855-bf33-ae228af43fb8-0
01:23:13.000 --> 01:23:14.040
You're welcome.

d0e4988e-095c-48a8-99f6-859299baa378-0
01:23:14.040 --> 01:23:16.000
I hope to repay the favour one day.

fc53566f-6172-4226-9cef-0caaa313f17e-0
01:23:16.000 --> 01:23:18.480
I'm sure you will.

12a3b1f9-c817-4de5-b3e2-d7f39d61ede0-0
01:23:18.480 --> 01:23:20.720
All right, so a few of my favourite lines.

30e0a768-0bb4-4c22-9e45-c376054a4240-0
01:23:20.720 --> 01:23:23.364
I'm going to start with Sunscape by
Natalie Harris,

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01:23:23.364 --> 01:23:26.720
which has a great opening line on the
morning that he goes blind.

7ae4fdd0-12fa-43fc-86ed-93a565506ade-0
01:23:26.720 --> 01:23:32.024
Thomas Broadwell stares at his copy of
Van Gogh's The Solar at Sunset one last

7ae4fdd0-12fa-43fc-86ed-93a565506ade-1
01:23:32.024 --> 01:23:32.360
time.

e94cfeb3-a7e5-45fb-95ba-2d7a1bedb124-0
01:23:32.880 --> 01:23:37.200
No one for me recalled the opening line
to 100 Years of Solitude.

2c543914-40ac-45fe-b28c-554fe291be0c-0
01:23:37.520 --> 01:23:40.880
Not the same,
but it's that kind of reminiscent quality

2c543914-40ac-45fe-b28c-554fe291be0c-1
01:23:40.880 --> 01:23:41.240
to it.

1690fe90-1349-4f54-9746-86db9297cb95-0
01:23:41.240 --> 01:23:45.123
And also this idea of like you,
you start with this hook of like he goes

1690fe90-1349-4f54-9746-86db9297cb95-1
01:23:45.123 --> 01:23:46.400
blind shattering moment.

efdfa0aa-108a-4dbf-a7ed-02b2551d5d3e-0
01:23:46.400 --> 01:23:46.680
Yeah.

b0f47275-a38e-414a-be53-a8e6aa54a946-0
01:23:47.240 --> 01:23:51.335
From Eva RA in the story Unidentified
dragon Plant,

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01:23:51.335 --> 01:23:57.320
A little bit of a nod to Yang energy
there in Eva's Same, and this one had.

8bc4c526-e7da-41cd-8c97-0c9a0f13f2a0-0
01:23:57.680 --> 01:24:00.655
I lay down next to her,
studying the rising and falling

8bc4c526-e7da-41cd-8c97-0c9a0f13f2a0-1
01:24:00.655 --> 01:24:01.240
silhouette.

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01:24:01.600 --> 01:24:06.680
From here, I could trace her curves,
mountains, dunes, one man on a quest.

6e7537be-f8bd-4313-ae26-3c57fe6f182f-0
01:24:06.960 --> 01:24:09.840
Even for science fiction,
it was hard to Imagine Dragons here.

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01:24:10.400 --> 01:24:13.000
I wondered what kind of whimsy I'd gotten
myself into.

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01:24:13.520 --> 01:24:14.840
Then she let out a snore.

2f677566-3eeb-46f8-9719-b4759c1da331-0
01:24:15.000 --> 01:24:17.480
That's the closest she'll ever be to a
dragon.

faa3f420-cf29-49da-8ea3-75fdea377472-0
01:24:17.880 --> 01:24:21.341
And I kind of like that creation of a
metaphor and then I guess,

faa3f420-cf29-49da-8ea3-75fdea377472-1
01:24:21.341 --> 01:24:25.068
knocking it down with this idea,
this intriguing connection between a

faa3f420-cf29-49da-8ea3-75fdea377472-2
01:24:25.068 --> 01:24:26.080
snore and a dragon.

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01:24:27.080 --> 01:24:31.240
From 105 Scorching Degrees by Dave
Cushing.

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01:24:31.480 --> 01:24:35.360
And the line is when they say it's not
the heat, it's the humidity,

d90b73af-ac5b-4c28-801b-01851047c722-1
01:24:35.360 --> 01:24:36.160
they're lying.

b517c633-fbe2-4f3d-a72a-9ec41c91773d-0
01:24:37.400 --> 01:24:40.080
And that one spoke to me because, yeah,
it's ********.

96051950-b0cf-472f-86a2-35a5c81f4a64-0
01:24:40.080 --> 01:24:41.560
When it's hot, it's just hot.

8812cb1f-8b9d-4f84-9c0e-8e9c06d4ef5c-0
01:24:41.560 --> 01:24:42.960
No, Wrong.

23384a3b-03dc-4a20-82cf-78352006f963-0
01:24:43.480 --> 01:24:44.680
It's always the humidity.

d3f1cb32-9256-4083-8b27-80a79ffe6141-0
01:24:44.920 --> 01:24:46.000
That's what's impressive.

5db8ee0e-c320-4d53-89ed-5b6db04325f2-0
01:24:46.000 --> 01:24:48.080
But also when it's hot, it's still hot.

8b31ab0b-a53a-410e-8757-fb15c50a3073-0
01:24:48.280 --> 01:24:50.080
No, when it's a dry heat, no.

2f92b624-170c-4778-a717-8277e56c85be-0
01:24:50.080 --> 01:24:51.120
Dry heat's great.

2359787a-df5f-4bca-a851-fa4206459b0a-0
01:24:51.160 --> 01:24:52.520
You can handle the dry heat.

5dce8a6a-95e8-4345-9f8f-3f5e839c73a2-0
01:24:52.560 --> 01:24:53.040
It's all hot.

536833f8-1076-4319-bc92-41ae9877fdf5-0
01:24:53.040 --> 01:24:54.400
That's what I'm saying.

9fe5467d-dde8-48c7-b22e-fbe3a0ea21d9-0
01:24:55.280 --> 01:24:59.480
It's all hot in the dark or whatever it
is, you can say that too.

60fef946-381b-4d79-b3ae-3fb65fddb132-0
01:25:01.640 --> 01:25:05.678
And finally,
from Autumn Bettinger bleached bones and

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01:25:05.678 --> 01:25:06.800
creosote resin.

c0627f23-01f6-44f2-9290-02c99e95740b-0
01:25:07.040 --> 01:25:09.840
The final lions just took a deep breath.

5b9a3b9a-96a5-4071-aa9b-fca9ec32b849-0
01:25:10.440 --> 01:25:11.440
Is he still alive?

6f0c7ef2-2f5a-4f6e-b63a-ea3bdca2fcfb-0
01:25:12.800 --> 01:25:16.480
I pull a fresh cigarette and light the
end till the cherry glows red.

7e47a2a8-df9b-47fe-966d-92fcf67e34b2-0
01:25:16.920 --> 01:25:21.000
The first rain months hits the porch and
we both instinctively recoil.

341c0eba-749d-4246-918c-e89539534791-0
01:25:21.520 --> 01:25:23.240
I watched till he wasn't.

316a6660-4fd7-41d3-bd03-161891f94a2f-0
01:25:23.640 --> 01:25:26.280
And that's where where the story ends.

3de489d7-5819-40fc-aeee-944d293302de-0
01:25:26.280 --> 01:25:31.535
And on a kind of bleak and revengeful
note of like he was alive,

3de489d7-5819-40fc-aeee-944d293302de-1
01:25:31.535 --> 01:25:33.880
but I watched till he wasn't.

4850458c-4c5f-4a4b-931f-6ae1a19f1dad-0
01:25:34.080 --> 01:25:35.560
I'm vibing with you, Autumn.

c8f9f931-80ea-49cb-bea1-415144c8bea9-0
01:25:35.600 --> 01:25:40.010
I feel like we're just on this,
we're on our little revenge journeys

c8f9f931-80ea-49cb-bea1-415144c8bea9-1
01:25:40.010 --> 01:25:41.480
together and I love it.

9d049299-2251-4a37-abd6-d0111e6ef26f-0
01:25:41.480 --> 01:25:47.309
Let's just process it through art instead
of through violent crimes,

9d049299-2251-4a37-abd6-d0111e6ef26f-1
01:25:47.309 --> 01:25:49.760
if those are the two options.

42920037-3cd3-4bcd-ae37-7709800ef18d-0
01:25:49.760 --> 01:25:50.920
I agree, yes.

26d94aad-f4d2-422d-9a30-e2cf1ad88693-0
01:25:51.240 --> 01:25:54.702
So thank you everyone who entered for
Team Ed, you know,

26d94aad-f4d2-422d-9a30-e2cf1ad88693-1
01:25:54.702 --> 01:25:56.160
it was a valiant effort.

03970f38-5545-4daf-9829-47a6a52bc865-0
01:25:56.160 --> 01:25:59.032
You could write thank you notes,
wouldn't take,

03970f38-5545-4daf-9829-47a6a52bc865-1
01:25:59.032 --> 01:26:03.042
could send you all a personalised letter,
might take an afternoon,

03970f38-5545-4daf-9829-47a6a52bc865-2
01:26:03.042 --> 01:26:04.240
but I appreciate it.

6ca13206-ec2c-4236-86be-541475809e63-0
01:26:04.400 --> 01:26:06.400
I won't pretend we almost got there.

ab69a4f2-2ec6-4b67-9d84-62be949170e8-0
01:26:06.400 --> 01:26:10.120
But like, there's the popular vote,
it's a quality not quantity issue.

2de7484e-6b4e-4fdb-9359-62592dbf2dd8-0
01:26:10.120 --> 01:26:12.520
There's the long list,
there's the points as well.

0c9238b1-2e49-4e87-bec4-7ef97f14010c-0
01:26:12.520 --> 01:26:14.160
And there is, of course,
the moral victory.

b81ca1f0-b017-4bb3-affe-5bd734af30df-0
01:26:14.160 --> 01:26:18.040
Who gets more in the shortlist and who
wins as well.

38a30f6c-91ec-4f54-adc3-8b079baabfdb-0
01:26:18.400 --> 01:26:23.320
And as we know thus far, yeah,
the moral victory has gone to Team Amanda.

0937cc83-52af-40fc-a938-78116a0ccdaf-0
01:26:23.560 --> 01:26:24.480
It has every round.

894389a3-850e-49a9-8243-1bd271aeee9e-0
01:26:24.480 --> 01:26:24.800
You're right.

4bebe72e-cead-4f84-ac14-e48ac629e29e-0
01:26:25.000 --> 01:26:27.389
The first round,
all the other victories went to Team Ed,

4bebe72e-cead-4f84-ac14-e48ac629e29e-1
01:26:27.389 --> 01:26:29.120
but the moral victory went to Team Amanda.

750cfd1f-d9b4-482e-8e08-d0f09d2eff69-0
01:26:29.120 --> 01:26:31.120
And we shall see this time around.

35af2ef3-f7bc-4c6d-abad-fad745974afc-0
01:26:31.120 --> 01:26:32.600
There's still split the script.

845c0574-2248-4043-969b-526099c4ae41-0
01:26:32.600 --> 01:26:35.360
There's still plenty to play for,
in my opinion.

ae26df04-7ce5-4782-8319-2dd77dd32d4a-0
01:26:35.520 --> 01:26:36.200
Absolutely.

39842db8-64e8-406b-a605-5d64b394ac5f-0
01:26:36.280 --> 01:26:39.240
But we're about to find out what the long
list is.

8293270a-e99c-45c5-8c8a-55a822609340-0
01:26:39.360 --> 01:26:41.000
Yeah, absolutely for this round.

34ee9a7b-b19b-46e5-8dab-fc5079767141-0
01:26:41.000 --> 01:26:43.000
So we'll read through the 40 names.

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01:26:43.000 --> 01:26:44.400
We'll split it by a team.

9cb21ae5-698d-46fe-96db-b70430888910-0
01:26:45.120 --> 01:26:49.893
These are the 40 talented authors who
have made the long list for the July 2026

9cb21ae5-698d-46fe-96db-b70430888910-1
01:26:49.893 --> 01:26:52.280
Not Quite Right Prize for Flash Fiction.

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01:27:04.200 --> 01:27:09.840
For Team Amanda,
we have Now We Eat by S Therese.

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01:27:10.360 --> 01:27:15.360
Crooked Answers by Brandon Wu once he
stops throwing up.

8805359a-278c-4b03-a357-a5e6acc52561-0
01:27:15.480 --> 01:27:19.280
Eddie Vetter and I are Going to Be All
Right by Emily Rinkema.

ad4e4dc7-0578-4c9e-ae86-882a3011967a-0
01:27:19.880 --> 01:27:24.664
A Pony Called Pickle by AC Stewart All of
a Sudden,

ad4e4dc7-0578-4c9e-ae86-882a3011967a-1
01:27:24.664 --> 01:27:32.208
Suddenly and All at Once by Chloe Page,
Borrowed Like the Moon by Tornell in This

ad4e4dc7-0578-4c9e-ae86-882a3011967a-2
01:27:32.208 --> 01:27:35.520
Version of My Life by Brielle Bates.

dd200204-aa22-4b96-8d0a-3444c0a1bbe3-0
01:27:36.200 --> 01:27:40.080
The Moon She Sees My Soul by Athena Law.

3800343f-b4c7-42b6-b331-77daaf7ee714-0
01:27:40.760 --> 01:27:43.160
Little Treats by Catherine Cook.

babb08bf-8d31-4f1e-9f7e-71070a195d9a-0
01:27:43.920 --> 01:27:48.400
Clean Edges Sweet with Rot by JJ Silkwood.

a60847aa-54aa-46ea-b94c-b54428abcad2-0
01:27:49.080 --> 01:27:52.080
The Man at the Table by Tommy Baker.

55ffce50-84ab-4b0d-aec4-fe994b07a1d4-0
01:27:52.760 --> 01:28:00.158
The Shame of Hot Rubber Melting Between
My Legs by WJ Arthur Bunyip by Ryan

55ffce50-84ab-4b0d-aec4-fe994b07a1d4-1
01:28:00.158 --> 01:28:00.840
Nanome.

e2165020-4e93-4477-9e7b-3d5eefd19c3c-0
01:28:02.040 --> 01:28:06.072
The Celestial rescue near the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham by

e2165020-4e93-4477-9e7b-3d5eefd19c3c-1
01:28:06.072 --> 01:28:07.080
Jonathan Dawson.

895a318e-90da-43d9-946a-863601a9b347-0
01:28:07.720 --> 01:28:12.040
Earthrise 2168 by Thorgia Wintermere.

bd18768a-1d5c-4e9d-b520-6af7c5218ef5-0
01:28:12.600 --> 01:28:15.720
The Side we can't See by Jr Biffen.

5b7f221c-9439-4ce5-a135-0f95c8fe93c7-0
01:28:16.400 --> 01:28:19.800
Hearts with Audrey by Jesse Descanio.

663532a2-5a1f-4d27-91cb-a450abf192e6-0
01:28:20.440 --> 01:28:25.025
Trains at Departure by Paulo Dougal or
DGL,

663532a2-5a1f-4d27-91cb-a450abf192e6-1
01:28:25.025 --> 01:28:33.154
400 kilometres to Cal by Jessica Elsie,
Cornflower syndrome by Sarah Kennedy,

663532a2-5a1f-4d27-91cb-a450abf192e6-2
01:28:33.154 --> 01:28:39.615
Phases by Chad Frame,
What We Lost and All We Gained by Tatum

663532a2-5a1f-4d27-91cb-a450abf192e6-3
01:28:39.615 --> 01:28:43.680
Shad Trinket in a Tin by Michael Stone.

4a2e75b2-93ec-4e16-b666-4dabee79ccda-0
01:28:44.400 --> 01:28:52.100
Sometimes to do lists are completed by
Ronanda Rich, The Lovers by James Fitzroy,

4a2e75b2-93ec-4e16-b666-4dabee79ccda-1
01:28:52.100 --> 01:28:56.326
Like a Lullaby Like a Dirge by Carson
Costa,

4a2e75b2-93ec-4e16-b666-4dabee79ccda-2
01:28:56.326 --> 01:29:02.900
The Donkey and the Monk by Jane Stessick
and finally for Team Amanda,

4a2e75b2-93ec-4e16-b666-4dabee79ccda-3
01:29:02.900 --> 01:29:10.320
Midnight Poutine by Sandra Peters and for
Team Ed, Double Dare by Ben Daggers.

6ef8a463-a4c9-4e93-afbe-98fbf0c779a2-0
01:29:10.840 --> 01:29:16.240
The Door Frame by Sam James,
A Broken Promise by Vada Tully.

ca84ddca-baa3-422d-a5d5-17856c145b1c-0
01:29:16.880 --> 01:29:19.280
Final departure by Michelle Ryan.

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01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:22.920
Married to the Sea by Andrea Cavito.

a8464e72-fdc5-46d5-8155-407b1abda91c-0
01:29:23.560 --> 01:29:28.354
Sandworm by Steve Huff,
Mamunasaurus by Sarah Banda,

a8464e72-fdc5-46d5-8155-407b1abda91c-1
01:29:28.354 --> 01:29:33.238
In Bloom by Saskia Carla,
Sunscape by Natalie Harris,

a8464e72-fdc5-46d5-8155-407b1abda91c-2
01:29:33.238 --> 01:29:40.293
The Time my Daughter Came out to Me in
the Plumbing Isle at Bunnings by Julia

a8464e72-fdc5-46d5-8155-407b1abda91c-3
01:29:40.293 --> 01:29:44.183
Knuf,
Bleached Bones and Creosote Resin by

a8464e72-fdc5-46d5-8155-407b1abda91c-4
01:29:44.183 --> 01:29:49.520
Autumn Bettinger,
and finally Unbroken Stone by Des Veers.

0b4e5baa-134b-4009-b472-1d5ee359d24a-0
01:29:57.160 --> 01:30:00.080
So congratulations to all of our long
listers.

8c2b8c47-c3bc-4e1e-a1c8-896582df5e51-0
01:30:00.080 --> 01:30:01.680
Well done everybody.

5d091601-9c1f-4f3d-864d-698556fb92cd-0
01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:07.253
And I think the Mathema chickens among
you may have come to the conclusion that

5d091601-9c1f-4f3d-864d-698556fb92cd-1
01:30:07.253 --> 01:30:12.266
Amanda's team swept the popular vote
within the long list as well as the

5d091601-9c1f-4f3d-864d-698556fb92cd-2
01:30:12.266 --> 01:30:13.640
overall submissions.

f8f0cde1-c67a-4b8f-bc6b-b73d757b74ec-0
01:30:13.720 --> 01:30:16.900
But you know,
Team Ed's coming in hot there given the

f8f0cde1-c67a-4b8f-bc6b-b73d757b74ec-1
01:30:16.900 --> 01:30:17.960
percentage factor.

55bed59d-a838-45e8-9783-2f24a8986b75-0
01:30:18.520 --> 01:30:20.440
But truly, well done everybody.

c3a8498b-6f5e-4870-9ca7-d057e80a426a-0
01:30:20.440 --> 01:30:22.720
It was difficult to stand out this round.

14c33e70-b516-4e27-9c24-f8754515294b-0
01:30:22.720 --> 01:30:26.120
And so if you did,
all the more of an achievement, truly.

2f54efe7-0017-484b-a415-d38a038beca0-0
01:30:26.280 --> 01:30:28.881
And of course,
just a shout out to those who didn't make

2f54efe7-0017-484b-a415-d38a038beca0-1
01:30:28.881 --> 01:30:29.520
the long list.

9db00f9f-f5e5-4769-8dfc-24f8d7e8b9aa-0
01:30:29.640 --> 01:30:32.960
I will say that it was a close call for
many stories.

ba30a872-1b31-45c9-8b44-c7d5b7ddb2f4-0
01:30:32.960 --> 01:30:36.803
This was one of those ones where it was
very hard to make the distinction between

ba30a872-1b31-45c9-8b44-c7d5b7ddb2f4-1
01:30:36.803 --> 01:30:38.960
stories that made it and stories that
didn't.

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01:30:39.440 --> 01:30:41.666
You know,
if the wind had blown a different

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01:30:41.666 --> 01:30:43.640
direction, it might have gone your way.

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01:30:43.680 --> 01:30:47.968
But thank you always,
it's always a win to submit a story as

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01:30:47.968 --> 01:30:48.320
well.

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01:30:48.680 --> 01:30:50.600
And of course, you know,
there's still wild cards.

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01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:53.400
There's still a bonus prize to go.

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01:30:53.400 --> 01:30:55.480
So don't check out just yet.

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01:30:55.800 --> 01:30:56.440
Well, that's right.

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01:30:56.440 --> 01:31:00.504
So if you did make the longest,
you are a contender for the prize money

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01:31:00.504 --> 01:31:02.480
for the trophy and the publication.

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01:31:02.840 --> 01:31:07.275
But if you're not in the long list,
you may still be a contender for the wild

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01:31:07.275 --> 01:31:07.560
card.

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01:31:07.880 --> 01:31:11.292
We have 4 wild cards we've given away on
our next episode,

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01:31:11.292 --> 01:31:15.051
which is the shortlist episode,
as well as finding out who those

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01:31:15.051 --> 01:31:16.440
shortlisted entries are.

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01:31:16.600 --> 01:31:19.220
We reading all of the shortlisted stories
in full,

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01:31:19.220 --> 01:31:22.920
which is going to be a lot of fun,
so we hope you're listening to that.

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01:31:23.400 --> 01:31:26.120
And we'll also be giving away our bonus
prize.

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01:31:26.120 --> 01:31:29.720
So the bonus prize draw will happen in
the shortlist episode.

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01:31:29.720 --> 01:31:33.296
It will go to the winning team,
which we can probably confidently say

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01:31:33.296 --> 01:31:35.800
this time around,
sometimes it's some ambiguity.

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It will be Team Amanda that gets the
bonus next,

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01:31:39.032 --> 01:31:42.040
but of course there will be wild cards
from both teams.

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01:31:42.040 --> 01:31:45.080
But the bonus prize this round is a
hoodie.

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By popular demand we've got a hoodie on
offer as well as a coaching session with

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01:31:50.843 --> 01:31:53.120
me, which is always a good time.

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01:31:53.120 --> 01:31:55.836
And of course,
we'll get to hear those winning stories

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01:31:55.836 --> 01:31:59.640
and what they did to stand down and maybe
emulate some of our favourites to.

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01:32:00.120 --> 01:32:03.060
But of course,
everybody who made the long list will get

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01:32:03.060 --> 01:32:07.290
a badge that you can use on social media
or your websites or blogs or wherever it

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01:32:07.290 --> 01:32:09.560
is that you might like to share that
badge.

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01:32:09.560 --> 01:32:12.880
So those will be up now on the honour
roll section of the website.

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01:32:12.880 --> 01:32:16.108
If you are listening to this early as a
Patreon subscriber,

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01:32:16.108 --> 01:32:20.360
then the badges won't be up just yet
because we'll be waiting to announce that

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01:32:20.360 --> 01:32:23.320
along with the the official announcement
to everybody.

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01:32:23.320 --> 01:32:26.360
So just hang tight on that one,
but do be ready to jump.

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01:32:26.680 --> 01:32:29.530
And of course,
we will also have our commiseration badge

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01:32:29.530 --> 01:32:33.080
for those of of you who did enter but
didn't quite make the long list.

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01:32:33.080 --> 01:32:33.880
So check that out.

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It's a bit of fun.

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I don't know, I find it really hard.

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You see me, Ed,
go through these emotional ups and downs.

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I get so excited for the people who make
the long list and then I get so upset for

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01:32:44.173 --> 01:32:45.280
the people who don't.

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01:32:45.280 --> 01:32:48.355
And of course,
many of those people are my friends and I

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01:32:48.355 --> 01:32:49.920
know how painful that can be.

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But that's showbiz, baby, right?

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That's how it goes.

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That's the writing life.

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Like you just keep bashing your head
against that brick wall and God knows why

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we do it, but we do it.

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And that is part of being a writer.

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So please don't take this.

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I guess you could call it a rejection,
but please don't take it as any

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01:33:07.035 --> 01:33:08.960
indication of your ability to write.

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Because as we indicated earlier,
there was some really bloody beautiful

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writing among it all.

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And if you loved your story,
then that is enough.

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And please do go ship it out and prove us
wrong, get published somewhere.

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And then you get to rub it in our faces.

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And I can't wait to see that.

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Yeah.

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Just remember, it is our opinion.

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And as you indicated, Amanda,
it was very close,

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especially around the long list cut off.

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There are a lot of stories that judges
disagreed on.

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And as you said,
on a on a different day may have gone a

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different way.

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So it's not an indictment of your writing
if you didn't make the long list.

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01:33:41.200 --> 01:33:43.889
And yeah, as you say,
shop it around and see if you can get a

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01:33:43.889 --> 01:33:44.800
published work on it.

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We recently work on it.

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Yeah.

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01:33:46.280 --> 01:33:49.477
Like, give us some more action maybe,
if that's the case or whatever it might

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01:33:49.477 --> 01:33:49.600
be.

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In fact, Speaking of Holly Sadowski, Yeah.

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Holly let us know recently that the her
first Daredevil story,

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01:33:55.975 --> 01:33:58.756
which was the story about a a sassy bogan
fairy,

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01:33:58.756 --> 01:34:01.480
you might say that she shopped that one
around.

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She edited it a bit and shopped it around.

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It's getting published by Silly Goose
Press, I believe it is,

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01:34:06.383 --> 01:34:07.600
which is very apartment.

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Yeah.

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But you know,
it does go to show that you wrote these

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01:34:10.760 --> 01:34:13.968
stories on a week weekend,
so maybe there are some areas for

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01:34:13.968 --> 01:34:14.600
improvement.

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Do it if you believe in it, do it,
get some more feedback and then

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01:34:18.526 --> 01:34:23.038
absolutely send it around to the very
slip mags and see if you can find it a

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01:34:23.038 --> 01:34:23.799
forever home.

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We are always incredibly excited to find
out that a story that was written for our

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competition has found its forever home
somewhere else.

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So please do share if that's the case.

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But yeah, I'm also super,
super excited for the people who did make

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01:34:36.524 --> 01:34:37.600
the long list this round.

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01:34:37.600 --> 01:34:38.640
It is a big achievement.

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01:34:38.640 --> 01:34:43.477
And I guess we'll just have to wait and
see which one of you won the whole damn

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01:34:43.477 --> 01:34:43.840
thing.

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01:34:44.040 --> 01:34:47.641
And we will find out who that is on the
next episode of the podcast,

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01:34:47.641 --> 01:34:49.520
which will be the shortlist episode.

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01:34:49.520 --> 01:34:51.040
My favourite episode each round.

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01:34:51.040 --> 01:34:55.760
So stay tuned for that one and if you
sign up for a coaching session,

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01:34:55.760 --> 01:34:58.120
those will take place soon as well.

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01:34:58.120 --> 01:35:02.360
So just make sure you've got a booking in
the calendar with Amanda for those.

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01:35:02.360 --> 01:35:04.320
If you haven't already, check your email.

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01:35:04.320 --> 01:35:06.280
If you're unsure what to do,
just reach out to us.

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01:35:06.360 --> 01:35:09.631
Yep,
I'll be contacting you anyway to confirm

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01:35:09.631 --> 01:35:14.680
the time and early bird pricing for the
October round is about to end.

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01:35:14.680 --> 01:35:18.000
So that ends at the end of August.

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01:35:18.080 --> 01:35:21.476
So if you haven't already got a ticket
for the October round,

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01:35:21.476 --> 01:35:24.600
now's your time to get in before that
that pricing ends.

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01:35:24.720 --> 01:35:25.920
I'm looking forward to that one.

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01:35:25.920 --> 01:35:27.880
We've got our prompts happening.

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01:35:27.880 --> 01:35:31.400
We haven't settled 100% on our,
we've got our theme.

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We've got our theme.

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It should be a really fun one.

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01:35:34.320 --> 01:35:36.400
So I'm looking forward to that,
absolutely.

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01:35:36.640 --> 01:35:38.880
But it's not over for the July round.

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01:35:38.880 --> 01:35:42.849
We've still got our shortlist episode,
we've got our devil episodes,

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01:35:42.849 --> 01:35:44.000
Plenty more to come.

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01:35:44.520 --> 01:35:47.280
So we'll see you again in another week's
time.

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01:35:47.520 --> 01:35:51.000
But until then, right on, right on.

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01:35:53.520 --> 01:35:55.000
Thank you for listening to Not Quite
Right.

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01:35:55.120 --> 01:35:58.745
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