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Another great post :)

I would totally watch a novel writing stream, and I don't think I'm the only one.

It reminds me of Break the Game (https://www.polygon.com/zelda/23775797/legend-of-zelda-speedrun-documentary-break-the-game-narcissa-wright-world-record), a documentary about a Zelda streamer who went for the world fastest speedrun of either BotW or TotK when it came out. It's a compelling and haunting story that compresses hundreds of hours of attempts , failures, frustrations into a coherent narrative. Maybe something like that is possible for a novel as well?

Also, I read that Cable rec and it was incredible. What an amazing story, built up layer over layer. Thank you for linking it!

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Thanks for the documentary link! I'll give it a look when I have a second. Might be a way forward there... Though in compression you lose the micro-decisions whcih add up (I really do think) to the overall impact of the book. Hm. Food for thought.

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