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Laura's avatar

Oh, my!! I just read this. I had not even had time to scan it before I sent my email prompt. So much fun and exactly the type of story that was in my imagination 🤣🤣🤣

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Dascha Paylor 🇨🇦🍁🐻‍❄'s avatar

That's so funny! I'm thinking about your prompt and didn't see the connection. I've been creating images to help the story develop but haven't found the right one yet. Still tinkering with the prompts.

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Guy with Cats's avatar

Love this, Dascha. Maybe overthinking this idea that it's Baxter's story--how Baxter has to keep the readers hooked--I always think about this kind of experience, sometimes creatives forego their originality and authenticity for something more marketable. Sometimes it's hard to bridge the gap between marketable and authentic. Poor Baxter, poor Lenny.

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Dascha Paylor 🇨🇦🍁🐻‍❄'s avatar

I think that's very true, Chippy. Think of movie studios that keep reworking old movies because the marketability is more important that original creation. I could probably be more popular if I bowed to this, but I'd be much less happy and the joy would go out of my work.

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