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Segment 1 (Announcements/Author Updates):

• (Valerie) taxes are done,

• (Erick) taxes are done! Preorder up for Shadow Signals (cover from Miblart)

What are you reading?

• Valerie: In the Dream House (Carmen Maria Machado) Broken Open (Martha Gies) Shadow Signals (Erick Mertz)
• (Not ready to give up on them, but struggling to finish them:) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman; The Year of the Puppy (Alexandra Horowitz) ; The Teller of Small Fortunes Julie Leong
• Erick: (Claytemple Media podcast; (Laird Barron) The Imago Sequence and Other Stories

• Segment 2 (Resources/Tips/Tidbits):

• Tidbit #1: ChatGPT for not-writing ways; (tape defect 2 second warble)
• Tidbit #2:
• Segment 3 (Mindset-Craft-Biz Check):

Segment 4 (Main Topic):

Listen to people talking as an exercise

Great first lines (Oh, that where this fits..)

What I want to say is:

My name used to be:

For learning a new skill:

Free writing/journaling/morning pages

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Next episode: Angus Nelson on burnout and confidence

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