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Thank so much for pointing me toward this challenge Laura. I’m partway through listening and enjoying the different approaches to the theme.

A few years ago I might have been embarrassed by the quality of my selection shared side by side wjth people who have a lot more experience with audio work. Thankfully I’m in a place that (mostly) what I see is my courage to show up and experiment!

So glad you’re feeling better and thanks for the opportunity to join in!

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oh Aimee I loved your audio, and I'm so glad you don't feel embarrassed as you have NO reason to feel that way! Yes to courage, yes to community, yes to experimentation!

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Beautiful job assembling all of our stories, Laura! It was a lovely experience - and encourages me to explore more audio. I’m now contemplating the serialization of my debut memoir and may do a spoken transcript for each excerpt to share on SS. Thank you for taking the time to do this. ❤️

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oh my goodness I love this idea Darcey! You should check out what Lindsay has been doing x

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Thank you! I definitely will! 😊 So far I’ve seen Sarah Fay post a lot about serialization, but I’d love to find more people doing that to see how it’s working for them.

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WOW, this is so lovely Laura! What an amazing thing to be able to listen to everyone's interpretation of the prompt like this. Thank you for the invitation to be a part of it and for sharing your audio talents with us all in this collaboration! ❤️

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I'm so glad you like the way I've put it together: it was such a joy to do! xx

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Congratulations for pulling it all together! I did try to post as an audio post but it tried adding it to my podcast which I want to keep separate. Need to figure that one out!

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ah you should be able to put it in your overall section (if you have a separate section to your podcast e.g. I put this away from Pivot!, my podcast) and you can "untick" "add to RSS feed" before posting? And thanks, I really loved yours - I thought about trying to record a recording of it but thought that was one step too far x

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No worries! It was just fun to get involved. Will look into how to keep the next one as a separate audio post x

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Goddam, audio makes things so much more PERSONAL! I felt this when recording my own piece, but actually sitting and listening to the voices of all these other writers just hit me so hard. I love hearing everyone’s audio together - it makes me feel like we’re all sitting in a room together, having a conversation. Such powerful stories shared here.

Thank you Laura for creating this space. I honestly want to add audio to all my posts now.

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Ohh gorgeous! I’m thrilled to be included in this lineup and treating myself to an hour listening to you all later on today, I can’t wait 💫 thank you Laura for pulling it all together, you already know it’s a great idea but let me tell you again 😘

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