Jan. 13, 2025

045 - Weird Reads 2025 Plans

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In this episode, I lay out what I'm planning and kinda, sorta announce a new podcast to look forward to, especially if you're a Stephen King fan.

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You're listening to the Weird Reader podcast, an extension of

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Jason's Weird Reads found on YouTube. Welcome, Welcome to episode

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forty five of the Weird Reads podcast. I am your host,

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Jason White, and this is something I've been kind of

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neglecting about doing for a little while because I didn't

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know exactly how to formulate into words what it was

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I was planning on doing for the year twenty twenty five.

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But I knew what I was going to do. It

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was just a matter of sitting down and putting it

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into a list. And I've finally done that, and so

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episode forty five here is my list the things I

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plan on do doing for the channel, the Jason's Weird

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Reads YouTube channel, and the podcast here, and there's also

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an announce sort of announcement. I'm gonna tell you some

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of my plans, but I'm not necessarily announcing anything yet,

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so you'll get a good idea of what I plan

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on doing in twenty twenty five. So I've broken it

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down into a list, as I mentioned, and I've got

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subheadings here for this list. So twenty twenty five involves reading,

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So I have some reading plans that I want to

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discuss some podcasts and Jason's Weird Reads videos plans, Patreon plans,

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and my own writing plans. So how about we get

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into it right after this small break. If you like

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what I'm doing here and want to support the channel

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without involved any money on your part, you can do

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so by sharing the podcast on social media.

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You can also write a review on.

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Apple Podcasts or rate the show on Spotify. I can't

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stress enough to you how much I would appreciate that alone.

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Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts or rate the

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show on Spotify. As I just said, each and every

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way you can help out the channel and podcast grow

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would be greatly appreciated.

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Thank you so much.

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All right, So what am I going to be reading

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in twenty and twenty five? Well that's an interesting question.

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If you've missed my wrap up video, my twenty twenty

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four reading year was absolutely fantastic. I knocked some things

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out of the park for me anyway.

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I read eighty five books in total.

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That's the most I've ever read in a year. Ever,

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I don't know I've to be I think I've only

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reached like seventy five. I think that was the most

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I ever read before then, But what surprised me more

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was my page count. I have never read this many

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pages in a year. I read twenty eight thousand pages.

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That's a lot for me, and quite honestly, I did

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this fairly effortlessly. The only problems I had was struggling

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through some of the books I didn't feel like reading,

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even though I enjoyed them, But I had to do

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it for interviews, and we're going to get to that

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in a second.

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But I want to.

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Read less this year, not because I don't want to

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smash that goal that I reached in twenty twenty four.

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To be honest with you, I absolutely want to go

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and smash that goal and read maybe ninety or one

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hundred books. But honestly, I have some other goals that

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are intruding upon that, and that's perfectly fine. I don't

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need to go read eighty five books. So I want

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to read less books this year because I want to

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focus on certain things.

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You'll see below exactly.

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Where I'm going with this, But right now I just

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want to say, in this moment, I want to say

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that twenty twenty five will be a year of looking

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deeper into certain stories, a lot of short stories, so yeah,

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you'll see that when I get to the podcasting and

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the YouTube channel. But before I get into that, I

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just want to mention that I want to read more fantasy,

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kind of like I used to. There's so much more

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fantasy out now than there ever has been. I think

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fantasy has just completely blown up, and I think, honestly.

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YouTube is.

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Probably really kind of responsible for that and to some degree,

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but I have run into some roadblocks. I've tried reading

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some books and I just didn't enjoy my experience. I

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think I've chosen some wrong books. At the end of

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the year of twenty twenty four, I reading The Dragon

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Bone Chair by Williams. As his last name, I can't

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remember his first name for some reason. I want to

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say it's like Chet or something like that. But anyways,

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I've read it before, so it was a reread for me.

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didn't want I didn't want to read it anymore. So

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I DNFD it and just yesterday, as at the time

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of this recording, I tried reading or listening to the

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audiobook of Grace of Kings by Ken Leu, and the

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names are so foreign and I just couldn't remember who

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was who or which faction was which faction, and so

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I ended up dnfing that as well. But I want

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to continue with Grace of Kings. I want to try

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it maybe a little later on. I've gotten into a

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little bit of immersive reading, and if you don't know

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what that is, or at least the version I'm talking about,

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is when you listen to the audio book and read

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it at the same time. I find that this helps

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focus by quite a bit. Honestly, I'm able to uh

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understand and retain a lot more information about the books

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that I read. Sometimes my job really gets in the

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way of that. But with the less reading goal, maybe

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maybe that will work.

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I don't know, so we'll see.

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I think I've just chosen some some bad books I

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should probably uh select for for well.

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I have read some fantasy throughout the year of last year,

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like The Wandering In, and there's one or two others

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I think, but I should I should select something that's

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maybe just a little more simple. I listen to a

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lot of audio books while I'm at work now, but

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sometimes your mind wanders, mostly because you're you're focusing on

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what it is you're doing, and that that can be frustrating.

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what's going on, so I have to backtrack, and I

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hate doing.

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That, so we'll see where that goes.

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I sit down to read, I crave reading fantasy. I

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guess what I'm craving is the relation I had with

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reading fantasy ten fifteen years ago. I used to love it,

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and you know, back then you just read whatever's most popular,

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a Song of Ice and Fire. But George R. Martin

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was typical, you know, Lord of the Rings. I remember

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reading that and really loving it. The Wheel of Time books.

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Of course, there was others too, and I don't know.

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with that. And I think that's all for the reading plans.

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I set my goal, as I usually do, at fifty books.

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I thought about setting it at forty books, and I

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still might go.

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Read said it.

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And I'm doing another weird experiment for this year because

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last year I kept running into problems with good Reads

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not being able to display my books that I've read

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so far in my reading goal, and that became frustrating

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because I always wanted to backtrack and look at what

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I was reading, especially for the videos my recent read

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videos on YouTube that would explain or go into mini

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book reviews of what I read that month. And it's

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really frustrating when you can't use that feature. So I'm

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experimenting with four different methods of recording my reading this year.

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I am using good Reads still.

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Honestly I like good Reads, except for you know, they

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do have their flaws, especially when the site isn't working.

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That's the most frustrating.

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But I want to continue using good Reads. But I'm

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also using the Fable app. The Fable app to record

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my reading year story graph I'm using.

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I'm going to use that one again. And also.

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I've ordered a reading journal and it should be here

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today actually, so I'm excited to dig into that. It

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seems a little ludicrous, a bit maybe tracking your reading

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four different ways, but I have a goal in mind here.

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I want to see what works best, or at least

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maybe cut it down next year to just two so

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I continue to use good Reads. I can't just stop

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using good Reads.

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I don't know why.

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It's like ingrained in me I have to use good Reads,

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but I want to back up and I want to

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solid backup, and we'll see which one sticks the best.

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All right, So that's it for my reading plans. Up

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next is podcast and Jason's Weird Reads videos. So the

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podcast obviously is the Weird Reads podcast that you are

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listening to right now, and I have another. I don't

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know if everyone's going to like this, but I want

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to podcast more and do less videos. There's a couple

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reasons for this one. My channel has stopped growing for

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almost two years now. I've been stuck around the same number.

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My growing stats that YouTube shows me sometimes goes into

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the minus. So what that stat shows is like your

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growth per month, so it's like, in the last month,

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you've gained one hundred subscribers. I used to be at

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a level where I was getting one hundred subscribers a

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month and that has stopped. It's usually hovering around twelve

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to fifteen these days, and it, like I.

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year and a half ago, there was a period where

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it reached minus twenty and I was kind of panicking

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at the time, not that I really pay too much

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attention to the numbers.

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I used to do a.

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get concerned again. Now I know that a lot of

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this is my fault. I haven't been putting out the videos.

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I used to do a lot of top ten lists

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that really draw people, but I kind of stop doing that.

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I just I just kind of lost interest in doing it,

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though I do continuously plan on getting back to it

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at some point.

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have I think I have like over seventy videos of

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top ten lists. I kind of exhausted myself doing that.

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at some point. I just don't know when, and I

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can't guarantee that that will be in twenty twenty five.

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But I want to shift my focus more into podcasts.

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As you see here, this isn't a video. If you

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go to YouTube, you'll see a lot of book tubers

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doing their twenty twenty five plans for the channels and their.

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Reading and whatnot. And I'm doing it here on the podcast.

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I have absolutely no plans on making this into a video,

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but I'm not going to stop making videos. I don't

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think I can stop. There's other reasons too why I

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want to cut back on the videos. The editing time

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a video because of all the pictures that you put

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into the videos and how long you want them to

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last up there. I don't want to get rid of

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the videos or the pictures within pictures on the screen

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that you see so you get like book covers and whatnot.

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I don't want to stop.

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Doing that, but I do want to cut back on

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my time, and for some reasons that you'll see coming up.

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I also want to interview less or maybe more to

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the point, more constructively. And what I mean by that

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is instead of I would get an email from an

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author during twenty twenty four, and they were sometimes very

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exciting authors, people who've worked with like George R. R, George R.

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Martin, George Romero.

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Peter O'Keefe worked with George Romero and I was doing

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some research on him and I was like, oh my god,

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I got to get this guy on the show. But

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there was others that just seemed like to pop at me.

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I was like, I got to get them on the show,

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and I'm going to read their book and then get

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them on the show.

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I did that with the.

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Majority of my interview people last year, and that kind

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of dragged into that really interrupted my mood reading. There

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are these all these books I want to read, but

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I can't because I'm stuck reading this book even though

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it's great. But I really want to go to that

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book over there, And this is something I've done pretty

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much my whole life, and so I just want to

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get back to that. So I will be doing interviews,

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and there's some that are planned already. I've got a

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couple more interviews on the horizon.

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One should be easy.

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to read one and a half more because I'm not

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gonna I'm not going to announce them just yet because

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you never know. But I have some plans regarding interviewing authors,

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but to get back to the being more constructive about it.

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So I want to read books by authors and if

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one really strikes me, then I want to say, oh,

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I'm going to try to get this guy on the

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on the podcast. So this will free up some some

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mood reading time for me. I'll be able to say, Okay,

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I really enjoyed this book. Now let me go see

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if the author will come on the on the episode

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and chat about it with me, instead of me having

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to read the book and then and then talk to

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them about it and having all that planned before I

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even start reading the book. If if you were to

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start interviewing authors, unless you're able to stick to a

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TBR not worry about the books that you really want

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to get to. If you're not a mood reader, then

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then that would probably work for you. But if you

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are a mood reader, I would maybe suggest approaching talking

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to authors in this manner because you know, sometimes you

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don't even enjoy the book that much, and so it's

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better I think for me anyway, if I enjoyed the book,

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so I definitely want to go into more constructive to

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my needs and desires for interviewing authors. So that's what

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you're going to see in twenty twenty five. There will

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be less interviews but more focused interviews. So if that

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makes sense, If everything here making sense, so yeah, definitely

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don't don't look at seeing the Weird Reads interviews going away,

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there's others. There's also something else I want to incorporate

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into the Weird Reads podcast. I want more bookish content.

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I want to find someone who's willing to go through

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and examine Shirley Jackson's short stories with me, for example,

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sort of like what Sin and I did for the

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Dark Tower series. I want to keep that bookish type

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of content going because that's just that's fun.

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I used to love just talking about books to a

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blank screen or a blank microphone, but now I want

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to talk about books with people because that makes it

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so much more fun. I want maybe to be a

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little bit more loose, because I was reading, like from

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the WEEKI for the Dark Tower series. I was getting

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the plots from the wiki, but I was just thinking

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of maybe having loose conversations where maybe we're diving deep

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into whatever short story it is we're examining, but we

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don't have.

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To necessarily follow the plot.

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I don't know, We'll figure that out as we get there. Also,

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I have plans for a brand new spank and bring

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brand new podcast coming in twenty twenty five based on

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Stephen King's short stories, So look for that sometime in

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twenty twenty five, and I already have some really awesome

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guests lined up for this because I don't think I'm

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going to be doing any.

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Solo episodes on that podcast.

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I'm gonna always have a guest with me to discuss

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a Stephen King short story. So that's all I'm gonna

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that's all I'm gonna delve into right now. You'll have

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to wait and see deeper into twenty twenty five. So

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coming up on the podcast, I have three interviews planned

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and they're gonna come out when they come out. I

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can't guarantee a plan, but next up you will see

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the interview I did with Richard Thomas before Christmas. There

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that's going to be next and you can look for

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that probably next week, and then there will be three

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more interviews, and then you might well you might see

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these podcasts come out a little less for just a

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little bit because of everything I'm trying to incorporate into

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my creative my creative life. It's like it, honestly, it's

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like working two jobs. But I don't mind.

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This is like a.

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Huge hobby for me and I really enjoy doing it.

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So maybe you won't.

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See a break in episodes, but I'm just warning you

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there might be a break. Winter is here and and

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let me if you've my channel at all, you know

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how I feel about winter. Winter does not agree with

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me at all. My brain literally turns to mush and

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I really have to start rationing my energy, if that

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makes any sense, because my energy levels sink really bad

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in the winter. So we'll see how that goes right now.

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There's there's a lot of plans and but we're in

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the middle of winter, so so stay tuned. Things will

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come out and we'll see where it goes from there,

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all right. Next up is Patreon. My Patreon was never

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truly successful. I'm hoping that maybe the new Stephen King

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podcast will bring some new people. And there was one

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thing that I was trying to do on the podcast

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or on the Patreon that I just couldn't do. I

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don't know why. I think it was because it involved

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a lot of video editing and I just didn't want

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to do it, but I kind of had to because

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I can't stand watching a video myself. I can't stand

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watching a video where people are talking about books and

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I can't see the book cover. So I was like,

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I can't just make my patreons do that, so I

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would always add the cover and that you know that

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takes time. You have to hunt down the covers first

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of all, and then save them to a file and

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then upload them all tier editing software and then place

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them into the video and then put them in for

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the length of time you want them to be there.

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So yeah, I decided to x that. So you probably

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won't see too many. You might see some reading updates

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in podcast format, but I'm also thinking of discussing some

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like adaptations of Stephen King stories on the Patreon and

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maybe some other noteworthy people like Chirleie Jackson for example.

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My plans aren't exactly written out on that just yet.

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I have a vague idea of what I want to do,

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but you're going to see that in the Patreon coming up.

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All right, lastly, here I want to talk about my writing.

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Writing is.

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Something that this is where all of this comes from.

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I love writing stories, and for I went through a

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long period where I couldn't write because I was at

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the factory. And when I was at that factory, if

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you've watched my channel at all, you've heard me recount

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this several times. So I'll keep it brief. I was

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working the Continental shift, which is you switch between nights

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and days every two weeks and it's twelve hour shifts.

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I was exhausted all the time, so I couldn't I

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couldn't write. I couldn't write anything longer in a short story,

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and I couldn't even do that on a regular basis.

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So I'd write maybe two short stories a year, and

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I usually did that because I was invited to do

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an anthology, So writing anything long for him went away.

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I am nearly done the first draft for a novella

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I've been working on for the past two or three months,

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and that that's exciting. I think I'm about eighty percent.

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I think I'm entering the last twenty percent of this thing,

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and it's going to be between twenty five to thirty

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thousand words, so that should be about one hundred to

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one hundred and twenty pages or something like that, and

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so you could quite possibly see new fiction released from

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me in twenty twenty five. Keep that, and you know,

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a lot of these things that I'm backing up on

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with the videos and whatnot is because of the writing.

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I don't want to I'd rather write before writing took

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first first. I planned on writing and doing everything else second,

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not of course, excluding family. Family always comes first. But

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when it comes to like my hobbies and my creative life,

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writing always came first, and then videos. For the longest time,

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doing videos for YouTube came first. And you've seen a

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For this is that I'm writing again, and it feels

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so good. I can't explain to you how good it feels.

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