Behold Victoria D'Angelo and Helika Campbell: the grandest, greatest, finest undergraduate creative writing majors in the world. We strive to fit the square peg into the circular hole while we discuss how certain characters can be molded into a variety of fiction writing prompts.
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Welcome to Lifehackers! This is the show that will have you lifehacking your way through existence like the life guru you truly are. Every week, Kerr Drummond and Sara Damergi take your through their best lifehacks; from the weird, to the wonderful, to the downright genius. And, they're joined by some very special guests along the way. Tune in for your weekly dose of laughter, topical chat and of course hints and tips to make your life that little bit easier. ------- A Create Productions Pod ...
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Happy Valentines From Off The Notepad | Off The Notepad #48
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Hellish Hollywood & Ghost Town | Off The Notepad #47
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In our first part, the devil comes up to Hollywood to star in the new edition of Beethoven the dog. He learns however, that the afterlife may be a more glamorous existence than the one his co-stars live. The, elsewhere in the world, a real estate agent moves into a new town but finds all the houses in town empty. Or so she thinks. What she eventual…
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In this sequel, we take a trip back to our Parisian vigilante and give her whole world a new look. Now, she’s on a real journey, accompanied by her father’s snarky, insomniac pupil as they search for a cure to her curse. Join us as we throw out the old and ring in the new, redefining blessings, curses and character arcs as we avoid contemporary cli…
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The Prodigy's Strings & In Their Shadow | Off The Notepad # 45
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Two sides of the same coin take the stage in this episode. One is the prodigy child who excels in everything except having fun, and the other is the good for nothing child of a clear cut success story fumbling their way through life. One meets a young ghost and the other finds a truth serum. How will their lives be changed?--- Send in a voice messa…
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Holiday Special Two: Electric Boogaloo | Off The Notepad #44
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Welcome to the Christmas edition of the podcast! In this episode, we take a seat by the fireplace and discuss all things Christmas. We share our new favorite Christmas stories. Join us for an hour of merry conversation about the Rat man, reconnecting with old friends, and so much more in this special episode of Off The Notepad. Art: Logo by Helika …
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Not Meant For Death & One for Sorrow | Off The Notepad #43
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In our first episode, a stray animal shows up at your door — no tags or anything — and after feeding it, you decide to adopt it. That night, when a stranger comes to your door, you find out the animal is not what it appears to be. In our second episode, you are delivered a message: One for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a wedding, and four for a …
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Extended Family & Go-Get-Em Champ! | Off The Notepad #42
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The protagonist adopts a child (The antichrist), and for the second segment, a Go-get-em college freshman gets a castle in Europe that is inhabited by both fae and spirits. Art: Logo by Helika Campbell Music: 1st Song Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at the Planetarium ℗ Senpai Records Released on: 2020-03-13 --- Send in a voice message: ht…
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Lending a Hand & Reverse Generational Trauma | Off The Notepad #41
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A superhero loses their arm in a tragic accident and is forced to retire. But when people start to go missing in their building, the retired superhero takes it upon themselves to solve the mystery. Meanwhile, a genie is inexplicably transported back to the stone ages when his master wishes to fix things with his girlfriend. What the genie finds is …
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Timeless Faith & Sentenced to Dinner. | Off The Notepad #40
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A young nun runs an orphanage in a world where parents can choose for their children to be born mortal or immortal. But most of these orphans don’t know which they are. Meanwhile, three siblings face each other in court. On one side is a supervillain, and on the other other is a superhero and the mayor. Suffice to say, the only time they get along …
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Jesse, the creative writing major, has returned. Now he’s all grown up and has become a creative writing professor. The kicker? All of his thesis students have been cloned! Listen in to see how Jesse imparts his wisdom on the students who now struggle with their own doubles.--- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/off-th…
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“How you doing chat?” & From Tadpole to Hero | Off The Notepad #38
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A young, aspiring streamer wants nothing more than the spotlight on her. She’ll do anything to get more followers, including letting her agency arrange a marriage with the most popular streamer in the universe: An arrogant alien prince. Meanwhile, a man cursed as a frog has his destiny hopelessly intertwined with the duty bound witch that made him …
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Single Dad & Visits to The Zoo | Off The Notepad #37
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What if a pair of glasses could filter out the bad things in the world? What if you never had to see anything that made you sad or stressed or angry ever again? It sounds fantastic until a misguided dad starts to lose his children. He can’t see them standing right in front of him, and he can’t tell them he’s sorry. Meanwhile, a necromancer goes to …
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What Lies in The Sewer & To Mother a Pirate | Off The Notepad #36
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Domesticated dinosaurs are the newest craze but in light of the family raptor’s age, these parents decide to adopt a pet monkey. Kind of lame, really. But when the raptor goes missing, it is up to the monkey to find out what is happening to all the missing dinosaurs. On the opposite end of the timeline, a retired pirate queen is framed for several …
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Deranged Coffee Shop AU | Off The Notepad #35
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In this sequel episode, we revisit the Immortal Barista! Years have passed and the young boy genius is now in his twenties, having been holed away and obsessed with finding the immortals since the moment they left him. He doesn’t even notice as he orders his triple quad-shot of espresso that the barista taking his order was his old best friend—now …
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Ashes Created in The Sky & A Weeb's Favorite Chip | Off The Notepad #34
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A young girl loses her life and begins a new one in hell. Satan, impressed by her love for fire, puts her in charge in her absence. At the same time, an angel hopes to see the best in her and offers salvation if she can reform the inhabitants of hell. Which path will she take, if any? Back on Earth, an amateur artist and anime fanatic witnesses a k…
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Shattered Moonlight | Off The Notepad #33
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We revisit An Eternal Friend in this sequel and watch as the vampire and the imaginary friend go on their honeymoon. But as the imaginary friend becomes more and more corporeal, they meet a lovely barista who is kind and gentle, everything that their vampire lover is not. Will the imaginary friend end up with violent passion or tender affections?Ar…
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The Blessings of Charisma & What Could Go Wrong? | Off The Notepad #32
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Blessed at birth with hypnotic charisma, our protagonist has never had a normal life. But her blessing has now power when she masks up for vigilante adventures. That is until she meets someone who can help her find the being that blessed her. Murphy's Law strikes again in another corner of the world, this time at a recording studio! A not-so-famous…
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Who I Wanted to Be & "Have My Feet Gotten Bigger?" | Off The Notepad #31
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A scrap of paper on a bathroom sink: “Call if you want your life to change.” What will the young priest do? And where, or who, has this note come from? Meanwhile, a college theater kid comes back to school after a successful organ transplant. Except theater kids are nothing if not eccentric so they vlog their return by claiming to have gotten big f…
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In this sequel episode, we revisit The Draco Spirit and see what happens to the ghost dragon after he is shunned by his love Tatania. After finding himself newly revered by the human village he took residence near, the new generation of fairies seek out the hero dragon that Titania tells stories about. Art: Logo by Helika Campbell Music: 1st Song M…
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Off The Existence & Weird Notepad | Off The Notepad #29
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In this extra special episode, we are collaborating with Weird Existence Podcast to talk about how we would write the next Legends of Zelda and Persona! Listen to find out how we reject every trope that Legends of Zelda has ever pulled out of their dusty toolbox, and how Persona becomes a duty passed down from college seniors to the entering class …
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Off To Sea & What the Gods Have In Store | Off The Notepad #28
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What will a pirate captain do when a wild sea deity delivers a prophecy about goats and deerskin? And how will they deal with this deity tagging along as an amused spectator? Equally bizarre, a news reporter has been on the trail of a mystical library and stumbles upon it by accident. What she finds is a library dedicated to all the gods of existen…
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The Wild West's Problem Children | Off The Notepad #27
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This special episode is the sequel to “The Wild West”, the story of a cat burglar who had been transported into his favorite Western and found an unexpected happiness with the antagonizing group of misfit cowboys. In this sequel, the mundane routine he finally managed to fall into back in the real world is completely blown wide open with a blast fr…
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History Revived & Blood for Ink | Off The Notepad #26
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In a world where humans have left the surface of the Earth for the protection of underground society, robots have thrived for generations, creating a society of their own on Earth. When a robot exploring a cave runs into a young teenage boy full of hate, the two go on a journey to right wrongs. Back in the present day, an assassin becomes quantumly…
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Looking For Buddha & Willow's Nindō | Off The Notepad #25
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Seeking the confidence to take the next step in their life, a young man joins a Buddhist monastery and believes his character arc to be finished far too soon for his own good. Meanwhile, a willow tree gains sentience and an anthropomorphic form and is invited to join a colony of ninjas living in the woods. Art: Logo by Helika Campbell Music: 1st So…
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Blood from The Soil | Off The Notepad #24
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This special episode is the sequel to Blood from The Deep, a story about a mermaid princess who was sired by a vampire and has to learn how to live with her new immortality. In the sequel, the mermaid princess has become unneeded to her kingdom and asks her vampire to help her find her place in the world by taking her onto land. Chaos ensues as our…
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Home Away for The Summer & A Silent Note | Off The Notepad #23
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A camp counselor descends into tragedy as his affections for a camper’s mother complicate an already messy divorce. Meanwhile, a university musician finds out how little she means to the people around them when she wakes up as a ghost unable to make any noise. Art: Logo by Helika Campbell Music: 1st Song Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at …
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The Two Catalyst & Break A Leg | Off The Notepad #22
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In this special episode, our esteemed producer—he made me write that—Gavin provides us with a character and a prompt, while Victoria and Helika supplement each with two characters and two prompts. First, we see a mash-up of a badass biker boy who meets a small-town farmer in a tragedy of reincarnation. Then a teenage girl tries to find her way thro…
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The Morning's Obituary & He Who'd Be Not King | Off The Notepad #21
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The most feared space pirate in the galaxy wakes up to find his name in the obituary and in order to find out what is going on he has to team up with the only person who believes he’s still alive: the space sheriff. They are more alike than they first appear but there are no happy endings to be had here. Even more tragic is the overlooked second-bo…
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A Wolf's Candy & Commerce With A Small Friend | Off The Notepad #20
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Candyland takes a dark turn when the sour candies have been banished to the outlands. An all-out war breaks out between the two factions and in the middle of it all is a young runaway with a skewed view of himself. Meanwhile, a bug nerd has lost his favorite beetle only to find out that it’s been taken by the tooth fairy because she mistook it for …
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The Pen Pal & The Puppet King | Off The Notepad #19
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A loyal but dissatisfied housewife finds companionship in a pen pal. She finds out that this pen pal is an inmate only when they ask her to break them out. She agrees, but she breaks out the wrong inmate. Some time long before this, a too-young king is stripped of all his power by the royal council, slated to be a mere figurehead for the kingdom. H…
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Abandoned Life & Across Time | Off The Notepad #18
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Recently, there’s been a number of abandoned cars scattered throughout the city. Nobody knows where they’re coming from and this single mom with a teenage boy certainly doesn’t have the time to care. She will need to rethink her priorities, however, when she walks into her son’s room and finds the walls covered with keys. But flashback forty years,…
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A Blossoming Future & The Writer's Dilemma | Off The Notepad #17
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An alien has been tasked to monitor the evolution of the human species, to make sure they follow the designated track. The problem? They are following it perfectly. The arts have been neglected in favor of science and technology. Humanity has fallen from beauty. In far less dire, a very special college student wakes up to find a clone of themselves…
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Not Your Parent's Game Show & Kindergarten Rescue | Off The Notepad #16
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The protagonist has been invited to participate in a reality show set on a picture-perfect island. However, once they set foot on the island, it becomes dreadfully apparent that this reality show is a deadly ruse, as the challenges the participants take part in all seem to aid the rising of an eldritch entity. After that, the protagonist is kidnapp…
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Blood from The Deep & A Hermit's Adventure | Off The Notepad #15
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Fleeing from an unstable life, a young vampire hides in the depths of the ocean, expecting to remain alone and forgotten for the rest of time. It isn't until a mermaid tries to save him from drowning does he find a reason to live. Meanwhile, a witch lives alone in the forest with only her familiar, a grasshopper. When the grasshopper runs away to a…
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Our Dad's Friend & Detective Peterson's Dragon | Off The Notepad #14
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When a pair of orphaned brothers inherit a magical being from their late father, how will they take the news that it is up to them to save the world from unspeakable evils? In another twist of the mystical, a detective who is staring down retirement as fiercely as he can follows a lead to a dragon’s cave. Logo by Helika Campbell Gone · StreamBeats …
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See You In 100 Years & The Sorcerer's Friend | Off The Notepad #13
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A young prince runs away from home to meet his soulmate, the girl he’s reincarnated with every 100 years for as long as he could remember. But she doesn’t show up. In another world where wonderful things can happen, a small business owner is shunned for his unrefined, unpracticed magic. When he meets a magic student from the local school, he finds …
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The Forgotten Deep & The Sheriff Dilemma | Off The Notepad #12
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When severe memory loss is combated with a notebook to record important events, this character tries to make sense of a world in which the ocean has been replaced with a gelatinous goop. This character struggles to remember the sea that everyone is mourning. In another fantastical world, a sheriff’s old-timey methods conflict with his deputy’s fres…
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The Wild West & A Eternal Friend | Off The Notepad #11
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A thief, an outcast, an orphan, finds meaning in his life when he is transported into his favorite movie, a western. After a falling out with his once-favorite character, the do-good sheriff, he finds a family in the local gang. Meanwhile, an immortal vampire loses her mind as she begins to fall in love with her own imaginary friend. Logo by Helika…
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The Draco Spirit & Rich People Problems | Off The Notepad #10
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The world is ravaged by a dragon apocalypse, coming as a second chance at life for the lingering ghost of a real dragon dead for thousands of years. How does this ghost dragon find camaraderie among living creatures and can he hope to continue the majesty of his race. Equally tragic is the rich, ivy-league college student who is trapped in a haunte…
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A Sweet Delivery & The Voice | Off The Notepad #9
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A mob boss receives a package in the dead of night: a cupcake. It’s poisoned, she believes, as are the chocolates and flowers that come next. An equally ambitious student council president wakes up with the power to command people to do whatever she asks. But her plans for the perfect senior prom fizzle into burnout when her cabinet puts their foot…
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A Royal Fate & A Cambion's Art | Off The Notepad #8
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A run-of-the-mill girl who is nothing particularly special is told that the birthmark she bears marks her as the future queen, not to be confused with the queen’s daughter—whom destiny overlooked. In another corner of the timeline, a demon tries in all the wrong ways to reconnect with their cambion child who was raised on Earth. Gone · StreamBeats …
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The Murder & Wild Surging Magic | Off The Notepad #7
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An orphaned teenager has been framed for his parents’ murder, now he must prove his innocence, even if it means escaping incarceration to avoid the death penalty. Meanwhile, a professor of magic has a perfect class, the perfect pupils, and a perfect record—until a rumor-ridden orphan messes everything up by being a complete and utter failure. Gone …
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Freedom's Cost & Close to Human | Off The Notepad #6
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A princess who wishes her parents away for a bit of freedom has no idea what is to come from their disappearance. And an AI is entranced with the idea of becoming human when they wake up inside a woman’s body on a morgue exam table. Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at the Planetarium ℗ Senpai Records Released on: 2020-03-13 --- Send in a vo…
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The Holiday Special: Victoria & Helika Ruin Christmas #5
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Happy holidays!!! Join us chatting about how a goddess learns how to love Christmas and humanity via the Hallmark movie checklist. Then, how the world becomes stuck in a nightmarish, never-ending cycle of the happiest day of the year.Gone · StreamBeats by Harris HellerHigh at the Planetarium℗ Senpai RecordsReleased on: 2020-03-13--- Send in a voice…
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A Nomadic Soul & A Needed Conversation | Off The Notepad #4
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What is a little girl to do when she trades bodies with an overworked teenager, a warmongering prince, and a gold-digging pirate? Who's on the phone when our desperate-to-please high school jock picks up. His older, more successful brothers? Or himself? Listen in on this episode to find out how these characters deal with the unknown! Gone · StreamB…
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How does the burnout prodigy react to his own virtual reality software being produced without him? What is a headstrong teenage girl supposed to do when she leaves her apocalyptic bunker for the first time in her life? Find out how we make these characters as miserable as physically possible! Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at the Planetar…
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Immortal Barista & The Inheritance | Off The Notepad #2
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What do you find in the back room of the coffee shop belonging to an immortal barista? How do you complete a late mad scientist's life's work who has left you their fortune? Listen in as we chat about these ideas and how to turn them into full stories! Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at the Planetarium ℗ Senpai Records Released on: 2020-03…
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Join us as we chat about creative writing prompts, including how characters would handle the knowledge of future death and a plane ride to "LA-I-guess". Don't forget to submit to Camas by December 17th if you're Linfield student, staff, or faculty! Gone · StreamBeats by Harris Heller High at the Planetarium ℗ Senpai Records Released on: 2020-03-13 …
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10: Solar-powered Phone Chargers vs Aeroplane Table Pocket
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Welcome to Lifehackers! This is the show that will have you lifehacking your way through existence like the life guru you truly are. Every week, Kerr Drummond and Sara Damergi take your through their best lifehacks; from the weird, to the wonderful, to the downright genius. And, they're joined by some very special guests along the way. This week, o…
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09: How not to Lose your iPhone vs Escaping from Reality
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Welcome to Lifehackers! This is the show that will have you lifehacking your way through existence like the life guru you truly are. Every week, Kerr Drummond and Sara Damergi take your through their best lifehacks; from the weird, to the wonderful, to the downright genius. And, they're joined by some very special guests along the way. This week, t…
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