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Mar 13Liked by Ben Wakeman

Ahh, so good Ben!! Plus, a special little song thrown in in the middle.

Sometimes I forget that you're narrating *everyone*! When there's a fair bit of dialogue back and forth then it really is impressive that you pull it off so seamlessly.

Great momentum, great ending, great tension! 👌

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Don’t flatter the singing too much or I could develop a Tolkien penchant for writing pages of song verse into my novels. Thanks for listening, friend.

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Hehehe. I'm normally not a fan of that kind of thing, but I'm ok with Tolkien doing it and I'm sure I'd be ok with you doing it too ;)

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Mar 16Liked by Ben Wakeman

Every episode I forget that it's all Ben, every time. Sorcery.

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Music/cameras/fiction-within-fiction…the way these layers are interacting is so fascinating. There’s a huge subtext going on and I love thinking about it.

I’m also watching a guilty pleasure - British Apprentice - though I don’t watch much reality TV. I’m finding myself thinking of your story while I watch! Like…what’s really going on off camera…makes it more exciting 😆

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Thanks Kate! So glad my little story is keeping you engaged every week.

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Definitely! I always look forward to it even if sometimes I have to save it for later.

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I think I spy a character who’s just a little bit like the author! 😊 What a treat, this one! Love the resonance of the title with the theme and subtext. Your plot skills continue to shine! 👏👏👏

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Thanks so much Julie. I had fun making up a made up hit song and playing a cover of it as a character. It sounds a lot more complicated than it was!

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I think we are all, the writer, the characters, and the readers getting to know each other better!

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Mar 16Liked by Ben Wakeman

For once, I'm with Fran - there really should be armed guards, they're sitting ducks. (A broken clock is right twice a day... 🤣)

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Thanks for reading MTF. I was afraid maybe I lost you to the Gruffalo! 👹

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Mar 17Liked by Ben Wakeman

Totally would have run away with him if he'd asked ;)

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Mar 16Liked by Ben Wakeman

Ben!! When Cam went to pick up his ukulele I had high hopes, but you surpassed them all! What a gorgeous interlude within a stressful episode, you really do spoil your audience and I hope you know how appreciated it is.

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Chloe, you are the best audience a person could ever hope to have. Thank you, thank you, thank you for showing up every week. Such a gift you give me with your kind attention.

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Mar 16Liked by Ben Wakeman

Thank you for making it impossible not to show up each week! 🙏

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Mar 14Liked by Ben Wakeman

I typically read your chapters but I have a need to go back tomorrow and listen so I can hear you sing four voices at once.😂 Somehow I don’t doubt you could do it.

The bonfire builds! Who will be kindling and who will sit back with a tasty s’more!?

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Who indeed? There is a bit of an Easter egg in the audio for this one. I borrowed my Paradis’s ukulele. It’s always funny to go back and reverse engineer a song from a throwaway lyric I wrote into a piece of fiction without any goal of it ever being a real song.

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Mar 14Liked by Ben Wakeman

OMG. I'm so glad I just went back to listen. Damn you've got pipes! And I don't know why you'd call those "throwaway lyrics," they're pretty great actually. Now I have a lovely little brain worm in my head today.

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Aw, thanks Kim. ❤️

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