Tim and Art explore the art of writing at the sentence level, which can only mean one thing - bring the samples! See below for the links to the microfiction stories referenced in the episode.

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Matthew Jakubowski's "Work Window": https://therumpus.net/2026/10/23/flash-fridays-work-window/

Timothy C. Goodwin's "You Found a Ghost": https://milkcandyreview.home.blog/2026/04/30/you-found-a-ghost-by-timothy-c-goodwin/

Timothy C. Goodwin's "Indiana Jones and the Giant Pit of Consequences": https://www.completesentencelit.com/post/indiana-jones-and-the-giant-pit-of-consequences

Jon Lasser's "The Affair": https://www.matchbooklitmag.com/lasser

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Early drafts will be bad, and that's the point. Art looks back on ten years of designing board games, including the long road to Breakaway Football Dynasty, to show why every failed attempt moves the work forward.

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Tim and Art welcome "Hugh" to the corner booth! Hugh is the editor-in-chief (and Chief Enthusiast) of Turn & Work, an independent publication out of Toronto. Turn & Work publishes original short fiction every week, along with book reviews, coverage of independent music, and The Shortlist, a roundup of great short stories published elsewhere. The Thursday newsletter, Welcome Distractions, catches readers up on the week at Turn & Work, passes along good stuff he's been reading around the web, and offers a free indie music playlist to readers based on their own tastes.

Hugh grew up in rural Ontario, Canada where his first loves were punk rock and science fiction. He started Turn & Work in 2023 as a place to publish his book reviews and learn WordPress in the process. It's now a team of four and growing. By day he runs a boutique communications and design agency.

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Tim explores how to turn small wins, everyday tasks, into bigger wins in the long term.

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Tim circles back to his revelation of taking notes on his latest draft of the novel, and Art proposes ways that large creative projects can manage the methods of handling "change logs."

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Art volunteers as tribute to read a 100-word story into the record as an object lesson in looking for the "why" in your stories. Art discusses how the intentionality of the "treasure hunt" in your own writing can helps boost your next draft's artisitic quality.

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Returning after a four-month hiatus, Tim and Art recap what they have accomplished in the downtime, specifically how to manage the changes triggered over long creative efforts. They also discuss how the new season will focus on sentence-level and paragraph-level craft.

Art was featured on a game design podcast, which he referenced in the show. To hear that discussion of the design decisions and game mechanisms of "Breakawy Football Dynasty," click here.

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In the last episode of the season before a long hiatus, Tim and Art discuss Tim's first 10,000 words of Draft 2, which Art has read and provided comments on. The conversation works through a range of author choices that Tim is still considering, specifically how the book is organized, the pros and cons of writing it in sequence, even down to the intentionality of the offbeat names Tim has chosen for many of his characters.

Art discusses his reasons for pivoting to screenwriting, largely as a way of learning how to do dialogue and plotting more effectively, as those have always been weaknesses. Lastly, Tim and Art make their new chapter resolutions, pledging what work they will have completed by the end of the hiatus.

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