Madi Taskett
@taskett
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having fun, writing a sci-fi book, and connecting other writers Wrote 50k words in 30 days Host of Friday Writing Club:
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Omg I love this so much
My grandma became a software engineer in her 40s
My former scientist dad is now a novelist in his 60s
My mom is making the most money of her life after a career pivot 6 years ago
You can do great things, at ANY age.
I boarded my Southwest flight, made eye contact with this woman, and knew I needed to sit next to her.
Meet Vera, a champion pistol shooter.
We talked for 3 hours. I spent 10 hours weaving her stories together. Over time, I’ll share them in this thread.
“I won 8 national
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@tolstoybb
The author wrote this piece in 2016 and ended up leaving California again (moved to Reno, NV).
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Some personal news: I bought my first home!
I'm so fortunate to be in this position in life, and elated to share this news with you! 💖
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@heydannymiranda
I was in a really dark place a few years ago. My dad noticed how destroyed I was and said, "Enjoy it."
Me: ????
Dad: "There's only a couple times in your life where you'll feel this much pain. How amazing is it that you're alive and you get to feel so intensely right now?"
His
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Today is my 3 year anniversary of being a nomad!
🌏 20 countries
🤓5 side hustles & 1 salaried remote job
👫2 relationships
🇰🇷fav nomad country
🧠top lesson: every country's best quality is also its worst; this applies to many things in life
(thread)
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6 months ago,
@nickgraynews
asked me to speak at his half-day conference.
I declined. I felt soul-broke. I was externally successful but inside I was empty. What did I have to offer anyone?
"Talk about that," Nick said. So I did, making a public intention of paying my SOUL
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Easy superpower: simply spend more time crafting your headline than the competition.
thx for the love
@GoodMarketingHQ
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I recently got my life together and wanted to share what's been working for me😊
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Why is it so hard for makers to recognize & recover from burnout?
Because the things we create aren't just businesses. They are our art, our fire, the things we put into the world to express what it is to be alive.
Treating burnout means temporarily not living our purpose.
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I am so glad I nomaded and lived off of nothing for 3 years.
Now, with any risk I want to take, any dream I want to chase, I'm not scared to lose my standard of living.
I can be happy anywhere with any amount.
So, bring it.
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My Blog 2019: 399 ppl & 470 views
My Blog 2020: 24,000 ppl & 47,000 views
THANK YOU FOR READING. 💖
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I'm giving a talk to a couple hundred people in 20 minutes and I'm a bit nervous. 😅 Wish me luck!
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I'm so proud to see so many awesome women on the winners list for
@ProductHunt
's Maker's Festival 🎉 My heart is full today ❤️
🎊 Congrats to the Women Make members who won the Maker Festival!
📚
@kzograf
with The Books By Women
🍵
@diannamallen
with Remeta
🔥
@taskett
with Done With Life
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I just wrote 51,737 words in 30 days.
This will forever change how I write, because it's forever changed what I'm capable of.
Big achievements are simple. Just show up every day.
Thank you for cheering me on!
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Anyone else super fired up about 2021?
I'm going to change your life with the stuff I ship next year.
I hope you'll do the same!
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Six months of resistance training. Zero missed sessions.
When I started, I said I wanted to go an entire year without missing a single session.
Everyone told me I was crazy.
Now I'm already halfway there!
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@c0wbitch
A homeless man in Austin stopped me from getting carjacked/attacked many years ago! I'd given him cold coconut water to watch my car (didn't have cash) and he got between me and the scary dude and said, "She's with me!"
He coulda saved my life that night.
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Anyone here subscribe to Trends by
@TheHustle
? Wondering if it's worth it (but prob going to buy either way bc anything
@stephsmithio
touches is fire🔥)
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I moved to Austin! 🌮🤩 I'm excited to call ATX home!
Looking for friends! Know someone cool? Let me know!
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Here's how I hit the front page of Hacker News on my first try.
(Hint: 600+ of you followed me because of one thing I did with this article)
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Day 29: 49,889/50,000 words written on my book!!!!
Tomorrow is the LAST DAY
AHHHHHH I AM ACTUALLY GONNA FINISH THIS!!!!!
Happy dancing around my house rn hehehehe
Saving the last 111 words for my 7am writing club tomorrow. If you wanna join lmk & I'll send you the deets!
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I'm going to buy a house 🏡in Austin, TX and it's complex AF.
Compiling a guide w/ info the realtors won't tell me. It's in progress & I'll update it as my knowledge progresses. 👇
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Recently
@anthilemoon
and
@levelsio
shared their thoughts on a concept called 'time anxiety'.
Here is my much darker, very personal story about how 'time anxiety' gave and then took away many of the things I cared about most this year.
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Editing my book rn and just realized I'm editing MY BOOK THAT I WROTE
4 year old me would be so proud 🥹
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So
@ZacSolomon
and I are officially starting a weekly writing club here in Austin! ✍️💻
If you're kind, curious, and crave dedicated time each week to get heads-down and write (on whatever you're working on), this is your space.
Comment if you're interested and I'll send you a
Okay it's official...
@taskett
and I gathering the kindest, and most thoughtful folks in Austin for a weekly writing club.
You don't think of yourself as a writer?
Not an artist?
Not creative?
Good, because that doesn't matter at all! You're still invited.
What counts as
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Bali was weird, the people sucked, and maybe I sucked too, so I wrote a story about it:
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I'm writing an article on defeating loneliness while stuck home alone due to coronavirus.
Do you have tips you'd like to share for the article? If it makes it in, I'll credit you of course. :)
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Purpose is the most attractive trait.
Someone w/ purpose is too busy to worry about a potential partner or friend liking them or not.
If they get rejected, no biggie.
They've got important things to get back to.
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This week has felt like the first bloom of spring after the longest winter.
💼 work is going extremely well
🏙️ moving to new home base in <2 weeks
🔥 80% recovered from burnout
💡 feeling creative & inspired for the 1st time in 2019
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Visiting home today and came across this package waiting for me! 🙌 Thank you
@ProductHunt
, I'm especially excited for the temporary tattoos!
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My weirdest New Year resolution is to check out a new church every Sunday.
I’m not religious. I didn’t grow up in the church. I accidentally said 'fuck' in Xmas Eve service, people stared, and I was mortified.
Why am I going? I have external money/accomplishments, but on the
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@mckmoreau
Respectfully disagree. When I started at
@auth0
our CMO asked every new hire to point out the big messes they found and raise those messes to leadership.
Bc veteran employees get used to the mess as 'status quo' whereas someone new actually has the energy & optimism to fix them.
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I'm writing 50,000 words in 30 days, starting now. 😬
I feel like this is a challenge every writer should try at least once in their lives. You never know what could happen!
It’s such a small investment that could lead to something massive.
I'll update daily w/
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Thinking of sharing my financials (salary, cash savings, $ in investments) in my 2020 recap blog.
Am I overlooking a major downside to this? I don't know anyone who shares all of this, but it'd be really cool to share my yearly financial progress with you.
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At Friday Writing Club,
@cahouser
gave a talk about how he shipped his newsletter every week for 4 years.
He says, "optimize for wanting to write your newsletter."
Here's how📽️:
ps: join us for
@das_connor
's lightning⚡️talk this Friday
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Zac (
@ZacSolomon
) is new to Austin & meeting 30 people in 30 days– you HAVE to meet him!
he's:
- easy to talk to
- wicked smart
- thoughtful
- great listener
And he's genuine. I get the sense that he's meeting new people because it makes him come alive, and because it's
Guys, I have something to tell you....
Today I met the absolutely electric Madi Taskett (
@taskett
)
When I arrived for lunch, right away I could tell this was going to be different. Her energy and enthusiasm was contagious.
I found myself repeatedly saying "YES, YES, YES, You
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I feel like a fraud when I use tools instead of coding my own solutions.
But then I ask myself, "is my goal to become a great programmer, or to make things that impact the world positively?"
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I love the friendly people who show up every Friday to write and work on inspired stuff together. ❤️
Sign up here:
Turns out the best way to start your day isn’t Folgers in your cup…
It’s getting some deep work done at 7am with
@taskett
& crew. Followed by at great lightning talk from
@chwoodiwiss
.
Every Friday morning at Medici!
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Austin TX fiction writers, where you at?
And do you want to meet?
I'd love to host a get-together for us fiction folks
I know so many non-fiction writers here, but barely any fiction writers.
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I started a podcast!
Check it out here:
1st episode is a manifesto.
Next Tuesday I interview a comic artist on how some folks only look at status signals to see if she's worth their time, vs experts who judge her art for its actual quality.
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Having followed Pat for years, he was living in his parent's basement (to go all-in), working his ass off, making nothing at first- but always grateful and good spirited.
“You can only control two things: your attitude and your effort!" - Pat Walls
THAT is how you get success.
“You are only successful because of your audience."
When I started, I had:
- Less than 100 followers
- $50K in debt
- 2 failed startups
- No team
- No rich parents
- No mentors
- A FT job I hated
- A side project making $0
- A mind full of self-doubt
We all start somewhere.
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I've been thinking of moving back to the mountains.
Don't know how serious I am, but... I think I stopped 'playing' as much when I left them. And I feel most alive when I'm there.
And every summer when I go back 🏔️, it's always the happiest month of my year (which I can tell
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Twitter, help me pick a cover for my next cookbook! Should I go with 1, 2, 3, or 4?
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146 pages, 30+ Authentic BKK street food recipes with full color photographs - on its way to being a reality on Amazon. Holy f*ck was that a lot of work 😂
#WomenMake
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My 2021 Recap:
✈️ made the most interesting & successful friends in ATX
🌲 took a break from hustle life & began questioning everything
💫 had dinner w/ my idol and realized I didn't care
📈 let go of my toxic ambitions & reprioritized my whole life
Here's how it went down:
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I'll have the 1st draft of my sci-fi novel done by April 1st.
Currently at ~86K words, after writing 50k words in 30 days. Typical sci-fi book is 98K words.
Started writing it in December.
Started outlining it last May 😅 (keeping it real for you)
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My 2020 recap is the most vulnerable thing I've ever written.
I've never talked about some of these things and I'm nervous, so please be kind! ❤️
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I hiked my first 14er this weekend!
Handies Peak, 14,058 ft, Colorado
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Me: I'm going to stop making things and take some time off
Also Me:
...🤦♀️😂
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I once had a friend that I only saw for late-night snowy mountain drives.
It felt like magic at 1am when I'd get his text. "Blizzarding rn. Pick you up in 20?"
"YES."
We took the back roads above Boulder, blasting Taylor Swift and singing at the top of our lungs, sticking our
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Whatever it is, it's not worth the cost of your mental health.
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Rosie believed in my writing before I even did.
She shared my blog on IH and single-handedly brought thousands of people my way. She encouraged me to be public with my thoughts, and her support helped me develop my voice and a presence online.
THANK YOU ROSIE. 💛
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I registered! I'll be making something secret for the wellness space ;)
Makers Festival 2019 - The 'No Code Edition' by Product Hunt & Coda is here!
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I get why so many writers start books and never finish them.
So much time goes into a project that may never have a positive ROI. Much easier to stop.
But it messes with your soul if you do. Video below👇
Also, these videos were inspired by
@ellebeecher
's daily meditation
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Final 10 days of writing 50K words in 30 days 🔥
Sick today. Didn't feel like doing anything. Did it anyway.
And the words flowed easily!
Big goals really are just deciding to show up every day.
today: ✍️1633 words
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Not yet finished with my app for
@ProductHunt
's Makers Festival, but it's getting closer!
@coda_hq
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day 27/30.
I've written 46,766 words specifically on my sci-fi novel.
Only 3,234 to go.
Whew. Hahaha.
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Any makers here who also have a full-time job? How do you balance the two? I love my day job but it takes all my mental energy.
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🍞Have you baked bread in the last month?
🤷Is your routine totally fucked these days?
🐶Did you secretly download TikTok or get Animal Crossing & now you're addicted?
You may be a quarantine ‘basic bitch’.
I made a quiz so you can know for sure. 😉
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So many folks showed up at SEVEN AM for the first ATX Writer’s Club that
@ZacSolomon
and I hosted! 🤯
Thank you for showing up with a smile, being so lovely to talk to, and writing with intention!
If you'd like to join, here's the sign up link:
See you
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Delta variant is SUPER contagious. I went out w/ 7 friends a week ago, 6 of us got covid!
Almost all are vaccinated. A third of my positive friends have already gotten COVID in the past, too.
Be careful out there folks.
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The first time I ever spoke at an event, 200+ people showed up for my talk 😱
I was TERRIFIED. I would've crumbled if not for a stranger in the front row who smiled every time I looked his way.
Each time I felt nervous, I'd find his smile and instantly relax.
That talk led to
If you go to an event where an author is talking or someone is presenting…
There is 1 thing you can do to make a great connection with the speaker
Sit in the front!
For bonus points you can smile and nod approvingly while they speak
In small gatherings like I’m pictured
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Turns out the '21 days to form a habit' thing is BS. It takes anywhere from 18-254 days, w/ an avg of 66 days to form a new habit. 💡
from
@ness_labs
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So excited to see
@budgetmealplanr
@LeaveMeAloneApp
and
@ness_labs
's 'Maker Mind' in the 'side project' category of
@ProductHunt
Golden Kitty Awards! 🎉
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Late night swim with friends 🏊♂️🌙
Some of whom I met through twitter!
Love how easy it is to meet people in Austin.
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I uploaded my diary/journal into and asked it what my top limiting beliefs are (and to rank them)
It gave me 5 limiting beliefs that resonate with me, delivered with emotional intelligence/kindness and with steps to overcome them.
So cool.
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✨
@harrydry
says to post my blog here✨
My most serious ex reached out yesterday to close one of our joint accounts.
I haven't had any contact with him in almost a year. He's married now.
I congratulated him and wished him the best.
I don't think we'll ever speak again. 🧵
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I'm working happily on a project, smiling, energized... but this morning I was so stressed I couldn't eat. 😭
What fixed it?
A simple 3 mile run this morning. That's it!
Exercise is everything. 💖
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me: "what should I tweet about?"
boyfriend: "the carnivorous plants we saw this weekend!" 🌱🪰🌿
me: "my audience probably doesn't like that."
boyfriend: "but YOU like that."
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Today I learned that in Iceland, a baby carriage is called a consequence wagon 😂
Around 67% of babies are born to unmarried parents, and a friend who lived there said it's common to have the first kid before college (sometimes w/out knowing who the dad is), hence the term.
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A quora post in 2019 changed my life.
Someone asked why their marriage sucked. The top answer said, "Those in happy marriages have well managed lives in all areas: career, fitness, friendships, family."
I started managing my whole life & began seeing all areas flourish.
Your problems don't exist on an island.
Your relationships are related to your career.
Your career is related to your fitness.
Your fitness is related to your relationships.
It's absolutely possible to win in one of these areas but not the others.
But if you make a major
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2019 was a rough one. Here's my year in review + 2020 plans, complete with a fictional asshole named Uncle Bob. ✨
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I made much better, more genuine friends after I read a real estate book and applied the principles to my friendships.
Weird, right?
It's working for dating, too.😂
Learnings on my pod today:
Broken up by chapters, skip to what interests you.
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I'm pretty skilled at negotiating raises and offers for new jobs. I want to give back: if you're either asking for a promotion or negotiating a job offer, feel free to DM me or comment here and I'll give you some advice. :)
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I said hi to a stranger at lunch.
He turned out to be the author of my favorite book of 2019. What a world we live in! 🤩
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Chatted w/ a friend last night who is still unrecovered from burnout 3 years later.
Me too.
Imagine how much more alive he and I could have felt for years(!) if we weren't constantly worn down.
Maybe preventing burnout is a much bigger deal than we think it is.
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Day 28/30
48,459 out of 50k words written. SO CLOSE OMG.
I could finish a day early, but I'm going to save it for my Writing Club:
7am on Friday, sign up above and come celebrate with me :)
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West Texas has its version of Barton Springs called Balmorhea State Park.
The world's largest spring-fed pool gets 30 feet deep & there were scuba divers when I went!
It was fun swimming past fish, past kids, parents, grandparents– wholesome feel.
thx
@willroman
for the rec
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Today
@das_connor
gave a talk about growing an audience through writing.
His hot takes 🔥:
1. the worst place you can gain an audience is with a blog/newsletter
2. people will not read your work because it's interesting
watch his talk📽️:
(join us next week for
@chwoodiwiss
's
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I'm super psyched for
@anthilemoon
's app for PH's Maker's Festival, Workness! Us makers need better ways to measure work-life balance :)
This is so cool!
@taskett
used
@coda_hq
to build an app that lets you measure how burned out you are. All no-code for the
@ProductHunt
Makers Festival. And she added Workness as an app suggestion to track your work/life balance. 🙏💙
(not my results, phew)
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I found this handmade map lying over my college diploma 😂😂😂
Accurate.
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My friend
@nickgraynews
knows EVERYONE cool in this city, it's kinda crazy.
Today he launched a book on how to throw parties to make friends. I read it & loved it, it's actionable w/ no BS. On sale for $1.99 this week.
Check it out here
CONGRATS NICK!🎉
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My draft is mostly horribly disfigured like a bog creature in a horror film.
But other parts work, like, really work! I'm so excited to keep going!
I don't know how to describe it other than the book has the beginnings of a soul.
Somewhere under the ink, there's a heartbeat.
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There's nothing I love more than watching someone nerd out about a thing they love.
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