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Oh, you're so welcome.

And last year it was really interesting 'cause it, it, it's been a really expansive couple of years for me where my audience, um, online audience has, like, really, really notched up in terms of numbers and in terms of, you know, just the two-way communication where people are really telling you what they want.

So last year, 12 Chapters Club was a monthly email.

I was like, "I wanna do this.

I'm writing my book, but it's a monthly email and nothing else.

You guys can go join Suzy Walker's Heart Leap Writing C- Club.

They, they write every morning now, I think.

You could go and join London Writers' Salon.

You can do-

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A Thousand Words of Summer or any of these beautiful online clubs.

You can do any of those, but I'm gonna hold you in this container of 12 chapters." So the idea is start of the month we're working on one chapter or w- we're at least going back and editing.

We're trying to look at, okay, can we get 12 chapters written in a year? Is that reasonable?

Mm.

Does that feel bonkers? Is it six? Because I'm a big fan of people getting to understand their creative practice, throwing blueprints out of the window and understanding, okay, I might be really fast in the writing, but the editing might be painfully slow.

The editing could take two years in comparison to my one year of writing.

So I think in these, inside of these containers, not only do we realize everybody's creative practice is different, but we're also invited to spend time with our, with our own.

So sometimes people will come on and they'll be like, "Okay, I'm going through 10 old journals, and I'm just gonna spend the two hours." They're always two hours.

"I'm gonna spend the two hours going through old journals." And I'm like, "Oh, I love that." Like how luxurious, what a beautiful thing.

And I, because I'm quite fast, I would always be like, "Well, I'll probably never do that." And then the other day-

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I was like-

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