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2022 Word Count: 65178

Story tools: Aeon Timeline https://timeline.app/narrative/

Restructuring story to pin the crime on the right murderer

Good News Good News

Team Rejection count: 145

Announcement: Escape Pod is again a finalist for an IGNYTE Award

Future Spoilers Club books: The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi, and an Ursula Vernon selection

Main Topic: Distractions

Sometimes, we just need a person, pet or thing to bounce ideas & questions off of

The games more fun to play have the more intricate and fleshed out stories

Writing on side projects when you get stuck on a primary project can be a good thing

Emotions are not reality, but take the emotions out of how the distractions make you feel

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