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Episode 15 asks whether seven years of scattered sketches, songs and stories can finally cohere — whether the pieces of a puzzle really do make a picture richer than its parts. As the series reaches its finale, two threads strain toward each other: Jon's Weetbix-sponsorship empire, brokered by Gordon Oliver, the Sam Altman of Sevenwell, and Dave's long search to answer the disappearance of Violet Greenslade — with a mysterious girl and her little black dog somehow holding the key.

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Episode 14 asks what it means to capture a piece of your life in sound — from cassette tapes to podcasts — as Dave looks back across seven years and traces all seven creative principles through the odyssey of making. In the Sevenwell story world, a moonlit promise, a cassette recording and a girl who decides to become the author of her own story converge in the most emotionally charged episode yet.

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Episode 14 asks what it means to capture a piece of your life in sound — from cassette tapes to podcasts — as Dave looks back across seven years and traces all seven creative principles through the odyssey of making. In the Sevenwell story world, a moonlit promise, a cassette recording and a girl who decides to become the author of her own story converge in the most emotionally charged episode yet.

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Ever wondered what keeps a podcast ticking like a well-oiled machine? In this episode, Dave pulls back the curtain on the "story engine" powering ItPoM — before plunging headlong into the Gossamer, where a Weetbix sponsorship teeters on the brink, Gordon Oliver sings a love song to tuna mornay and Mr Weetbix himself calls to put Jon on notice.

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Episode 12 . This episode zooms between the cosmic and the deeply personal, exploring how little "c" creativity helps us make sense of loss, existence, and what it means to have been here at all. Dave and Jon's continue to vie for narrative asendency as the poignant story of Pauly/Paul and Violet clashes with Jon's Weetbix sponsorship aspirations.

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The story of Pauly Paul and Violet Greenslade's childhood friendship takes a surprising turn when 14 year old Violet is confronted with some terrible news. Join Jon and Dave as they grapple for control of the SEVENWELL narrative.

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Step through the purple haze of the Gossamer as Episode 10 unveils the childhood story of Pauly Paul McCartony and his best friend Violet Greenslade in the world of Sevenwell. When seven-year-old Violet mysteriously vanishes to Glastonbury, young Pauly attempts an extraordinary feat with his "wonder torch" and a tinfoil rocket ship to find her again.

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Creative uncertainty reigns as Dave confronts the frustration and self-doubt that comes with the effort of trying to form a clear picture of where the project is heading. 

When conceptual approaches fail, Dave continues to find a way forward inspired by novelist Alex Miller’s observation that “The story reveals itself to me as I proceed with the book and it is nearly always a surprise.”

Is discombobulation a necessary rite of passage to creating something unexpectedly beautiful?

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Episode EIGHT plunges listeners into the creative wilderness of dead ends and breakthroughs as Dave reveals the frustrating months he spent trying to find a narrative framework for the sevenwell story-world. After hitting wall after wall in early 2022, Dave finally breaks through by embracing Alex Miller's wisdom about letting stories reveal themselves organically.

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Episode SEVEN marks the pivotal midpoint of the journey, revealing how Dave and Jon transformed their collection of random characters and content into the very podcast listeners are experiencing. Inspired by meta-fictional podcasts like "Appearances" and "Welcome to Night Vale," they explain the three-layered structure they've created. The episode weaves fact and fiction as they share the true history of their 30-year relationship, overlaid with a fabricated connection to the number seven that sets up the story world for the seven episodes to come.

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