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Happy Hour #118: You Have a Fanfiction Update! · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've ever told you Protection by Heart Radio. I just
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  Speaker 1: tricked myself up there on the introduction because I wrote Sminty,
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  Speaker 1: I never do that. I still write out the opening
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  Speaker 1: line every time listener.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I copy paste yours whenever I do. I do
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  Speaker 2: it a thing, the outline.
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  Speaker 1: It's wild. It's one of those things that you should.
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  Speaker 1: It's like if I think too much about it, then
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember it. I just have to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And this is the person who never does it. I
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  Speaker 2: think I know it, and then I'm like, wait, I've
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  Speaker 2: never done this, so it feels born. So I have
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  Speaker 2: to write back and a look, even though I probably
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  Speaker 2: could if someone will like made me do it right.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a very it's not a natural way
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  Speaker 1: of speaking. It doesn't feel very natural. We have to
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  Speaker 1: do this, by the way, which I'm sure is no
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  Speaker 1: surprise to anyone. Well, welcome to another edition of a
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  Speaker 1: Happy Hour. As always. If you do choose to drink, uh,
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  Speaker 1: drink responsibly. Are you sitting on anything, Smantha.
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  Speaker 2: I'm keeping it with my bubbly water and they have
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  Speaker 2: I would like to lodge a complaint. Oh so we
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  Speaker 2: do have a soda stream not sponsored by them currently.
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  Speaker 2: But my favorite flavor is these bubbly drops again not
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  Speaker 2: suffered right now. That's pineapple, and I think if discontinued it,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm very unhappy, Like I had a stash and
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  Speaker 2: I think I'm down to my last bottle of it.
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  Speaker 2: I am really unhappy by the situation. You should be
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  Speaker 2: because it's my favorite. It is mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I wanted to do a whole series on
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  Speaker 1: Lost discontinued candy. Yeah, so we could, it could. I'm
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  Speaker 1: already I'm roping do it.
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  Speaker 2: At that to it because I was like, why is it? So?
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  Speaker 2: It was difficult for a minute, and then I found
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  Speaker 2: it on like other resources, you know what that you
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  Speaker 2: can get as a third party. But I'm so particular
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  Speaker 2: about these tastes because some of it is just so
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  Speaker 2: over the top chemically. But this is the one that
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  Speaker 2: I like, and I'm like, oh no, so I'm doing
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  Speaker 2: it very sparingly.
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  Speaker 1: Oh geez, that's not good, Samantha. I feel I feel
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  Speaker 1: for you, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: What about you? Is your box line being discontinued?
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  Speaker 1: No, I don't know. Fear in my heart, Yes, I
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  Speaker 1: am drinking from a box of wine, which Samantha nos,
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost out. I do have a backup, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't have time to fill up. Well. One time you
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  Speaker 1: and I discussed because you and I have different methods
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  Speaker 1: of getting out the final yes drops, and mine involves
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  Speaker 1: breaking open the box like I'm an otter with the
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  Speaker 1: clam and then cutting opens.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I squeeze it like.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're painting such wonderful pictures. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Do it technic yes, Which is a good segue because
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do a very quick fan fiction update.
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  Speaker 1: As you know, we've talked about it as we record.
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  Speaker 1: This is May thirty eight. Next week we are recording
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  Speaker 1: our audiobook, so we're having to scramble to cover for
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  Speaker 1: that week for the episodes for that week. So I
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  Speaker 1: thought this would be a kind of light update, and
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  Speaker 1: it's actually sort of related to your upcoming Monday mini,
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  Speaker 1: which I find interesting. Yeah. So I have finally started
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  Speaker 1: posting fan fiction after I spent a good portion of
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  Speaker 1: my life reading it and a good portion of the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic writing it, and I just have some I just
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  Speaker 1: have some updates about it. So one of the things
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  Speaker 1: I know we mentioned it recently, and in fact, we
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  Speaker 1: got an email from our like top of the Top
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  Speaker 1: bosses today about it.
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  Speaker 2: AI.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I did a gulp.
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  Speaker 2: I know I do.
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  Speaker 1: When I saw it, they were like iHeart and AI,
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, this is it replaced? So I've
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  Speaker 1: noticed in fan fiction a lot of people are deleting
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  Speaker 1: their fan fiction because they don't want AI to infiltrate
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  Speaker 1: the space or to learn from their fan fiction. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of stories are posted like if you want
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  Speaker 1: the story, download it now, I'm deleting it, which is interesting.
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  Speaker 1: And also apparently there's been guidelines posted about how if
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  Speaker 1: you don't want AI to to learn from your story,
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  Speaker 1: how to do that, which is strange times we live
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  Speaker 1: in and they learn it from my fan fiction story.
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  Speaker 1: But as I said, as of recently, a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: articles have come out with the AI is really bad
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  Speaker 1: at writing fan fiction. I'm sure it's a little prove,
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  Speaker 1: but right now it's mostly comical and bad at it.
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  Speaker 1: So that's going on, and I've definitely noticed kind of
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  Speaker 1: a decrease, which is sad, but I totally get it,
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  Speaker 1: Like I get wanting to protect your story. I guess
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  Speaker 1: from that or have it not be used for that.
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  Speaker 1: I so far have had a lovely experience publishing. I've
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  Speaker 1: gotten lovely reviews, and I've gotten art made for my
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  Speaker 1: stories and it's very, very gorgeous and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: And that is one of the big things that makes
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction fan fiction is that it's a very community
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  Speaker 1: based experience. So I respond to all the comments as
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  Speaker 1: long as it's not some kind of a I which
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  Speaker 1: I do think happened to me and I talked about
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  Speaker 1: a depressed episode. I respond all the comments. We get
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  Speaker 1: to like make silly in jokes and introduce each other
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  Speaker 1: to different things like oh you haven't watched this, Oh
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  Speaker 1: you haven't done this, and it's like not in a
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  Speaker 1: judgmental way, but just very much in a like very fanish,
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  Speaker 1: Oh you would love this, like you should go check
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  Speaker 1: it out. They know all of the dorky stuff I'm referencing.
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  Speaker 1: Luke Skywalker's poncho is a tag, like people know what.
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  Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm connecting, And as I told you,
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  Speaker 1: I texted you very excitedly last weekend. People are asking
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  Speaker 1: me for my schedule now, which is really great. I
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  Speaker 1: do know that fifty to fifty chance that some authors
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  Speaker 1: hate that because then they feel pressure to like, oh
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  Speaker 1: I have to update, or like don't your making you're
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  Speaker 1: stressing me out about it. I am the person that
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  Speaker 1: has a schedule, so it didn't bother me. Kind of.
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  Speaker 1: I got like a whole calendar just dated with everything
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  Speaker 1: on it, so that was It's cool, It's cool. There
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  Speaker 1: were a couple of things they posted and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: I know this is good, and it was neat to
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  Speaker 1: see the feedback of it, kind of relating to I
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  Speaker 1: know what you're going to talk about in the mondaye Mini,
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  Speaker 1: I did I so you can. You can write author's
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  Speaker 1: notes at the top and the bottom that are just
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  Speaker 1: kind of your thoughts about it, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times it's like jokes or content warnings or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end I usually post something that's like
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  Speaker 1: I know it wouldn't have done. I know it wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: have been like I know it like a bunch of disclaimers,
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  Speaker 1: or like I get it, I know it. And I
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  Speaker 1: had a reader respond and say, like you always say
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  Speaker 1: like you're always downplaying your work, and I love it,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't understand what you always feel like you
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  Speaker 1: have to say all of these things as if it's
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  Speaker 1: not good or because I enjoy it very much, you
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  Speaker 1: very kind. They were very kind about it, but it
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  Speaker 1: was I was a moment of like, yeah, I do
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  Speaker 1: do that all the time, even though yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: fan fiction is a space where you can publish things
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  Speaker 1: that aren't super edited or don't have to be like
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  Speaker 1: what happened in the in the canon of it or
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  Speaker 1: in the movies, or would never happen, and you can
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  Speaker 1: know that it would never happen. That's part of the
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  Speaker 1: fun of it. But I still feel like I have
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  Speaker 1: to explain it and say, like, no, I know, I
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  Speaker 1: know it wouldn't have happened like this. So that's been
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  Speaker 1: interesting too, and it's been really cool to see how
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  Speaker 1: differently people respond, like the different takeaways they'll have of
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  Speaker 1: I never would have interpreted something that way. It's cool.
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  Speaker 1: I'm having a good time, having a good time. I
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  Speaker 1: do get nervous though, because sometimes like I have a
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  Speaker 1: chapter that I know is so good, and then the
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  Speaker 1: next chapter I'm like, it's not gonna be as good
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  Speaker 1: as that chapter, and then I get all my head
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  Speaker 1: about it and I stress out so much about it,
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  Speaker 1: and so now I've just gotten where kind of what
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about with Bridget, I just publish it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just like, I give myself a deadline and it's
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  Speaker 1: gotta go. I can't worry about it anymore. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: getting paid for this. It's not my job. I cannot
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  Speaker 1: just stress about it. So it's been it's been a
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  Speaker 1: real learning experience, I will say that. And I actually
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  Speaker 1: I'm more convinced than ever that you can use this
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  Speaker 1: to improve your writing because you do get immediate feedback
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  Speaker 1: and it's I mean, all of it's been nice, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, but you do get you get like this
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  Speaker 1: kind of oh well I thought this, or I thought this,
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  Speaker 1: I thought this. You're like, oh yeah, that makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: So that's just my updates. I am enjoying it, but
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. I the story I the multi chapter story
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  Speaker 1: I'm posting, was supposed to only be seven chapters and
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  Speaker 1: now it's thirty.
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  Speaker 2: Like wow. I was thinking, like you're going to say
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  Speaker 2: ten and then.
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  Speaker 1: No, because all these ideas kept coming. The inspiration was
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  Speaker 1: there and I was like, well here we are.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is it's cool because some days I'm
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  Speaker 1: just like the ideas are flowing. Other days, no ideas
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  Speaker 1: to be which is kind of like how it is
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  Speaker 1: with this job actually, but yes, yes there's my update.
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  Speaker 2: I what's the name of it again?
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  Speaker 1: No, you're never gonna get me, even though again easy
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  Speaker 1: to find, very easy to find. Uh, but yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's been a lovely experience. I'm glad I finally
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  Speaker 1: made the jump to do it. I never thought not
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  Speaker 1: not after like middle school, I never do it artwork.
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  Speaker 1: You never sent that to me. It's really pretty, it's
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  Speaker 1: really cool. Oh, people are so creative. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Well. Cheers to you and to your listeners.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any fan fiction a fan art you
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  Speaker 1: would like to share, you know we would love it.
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  Speaker 1: You can email us at Stephani Media, mom stuff at
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  Speaker 1: iHeartMedia dot com. You frite us on Twitter a momster podcast,
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  Speaker 1: or on Instagram and TikTok at stuff I've Never told you.
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  Speaker 1: You can also find us on YouTube, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a book you can for order. There's a whole section
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  Speaker 1: about fan fiction in there at stuff you should read
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  Speaker 1: books dot com. Thanks as always too, our super producer Christina,
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  Speaker 1: our executive producer Maya, and our contributor Joey. Thank you all,
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: and thanks to you for listening Steffan Never Told Me
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