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Hi everybody . It's Lindsay . I just wanted

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to give you a quick update about what's going

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on with ADWIT , the audio drama

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writer's independent toolkit . It

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has been a minute or ten since

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last we published

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an episode . What has been going on

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? So a

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while back , Sarah had a medical event

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in her family . I would tell you all

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about it , but that would be a HIPAA

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violation and I could go to jail

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. No , seriously , I

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told her please go spend some more time

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with your family , and

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she did . We did

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both run off and go do some solo

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projects which may be relevant to your interests

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. First of all , you want

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to know that Sarah is one of the team who is

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bringing the Audio Drama Hub Podfest

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to life , which is happening on November

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4th 2023

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. This is a one-day get-together for

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audio drama creatives and it

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is taking place in High Wycombe

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, if I'm pronouncing that correctly

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. It is a one-day

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get-together for audio drama creatives

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and the keynote speaker will be Mariel

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Runaker Temple , who is an award-winning

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audio director , producer and

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casting director and a proud member of the

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Casting Director's Guild . So there's

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going to be all kinds of panels and discussions

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. It's a nice small podcasting

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conference . It's in

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a you know , in one day and

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in a nice small place . And

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for those of us who are not

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in the UK and can't get there easily

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, there are streaming tickets , which

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are 25 pounds or whatever your

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local currency's equivalent

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is , and I'm going to

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give you a link in the show notes

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to give you more information about that

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if you would like to be able to

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watch and listen to the exciting

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things that they're going to be talking about at

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the Audio Drama Hub Podfest

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. So Sarah's Hard

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at Work on that and I

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am working on the 11th Hour Audio

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Challenge , which I know we've talked about before

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. But in case you want

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to know about the 11th Hour Audio

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Challenge , I'm reading from

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their website here the 11th Hour

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Audio Challenge is a yearly event that

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encourages teams to create original audio

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shows in October and the scripts

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must be under 30 pages and deadlines

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are at 11 pm on October 28th

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, and they encourage you to

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do all of the work in October , although

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you can write your script Before

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that . I didn't . I

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chose to write my script this month

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. So Vince and I are finishing

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up the editing process so that

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we can send it in . If

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you want to learn more about it , you want to visit

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11thhouraudiocom

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and I will put a link in the show notes

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. And also , if you miss

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the dulcet tones of Sarah

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Golding , she has been hard at

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work on Oz9 and

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Red Odyssey from Denouncer Media

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, so you can give those two a listen . We

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want to know what you want from

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ADWIT moving forward

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. Do you want more strategies

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for dealing with obstacles to writing ? Do

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you want more writing exercises and

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prompts ? Do you want us

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to do a deep dive into genre

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writing , like writing horror

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or writing romantic comedies , things

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like that ? Do you want interviews

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with other audio drama

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writers ? Do you want information

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about producing your own audio

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drama podcast ? I

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feel like there's a lot of that out there

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, but maybe

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you want to hear it from us

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. So

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to that end , we are going

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to put up a survey , which will

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be linked on the adwit . org

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website , so that you can tell

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us more about what

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you want to hear from us

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. In the meantime

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, you can write to us at writersadwit

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at gmail . com . Again

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, that's the word writers followed by the word

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adwit at gmail . com . And

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I've got some listening recommendations for you

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, because it is spooky season and

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also because I'm always saying to you

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write the show that you can produce

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. And here are

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some things that I think would be really good

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examples . One of them is

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Hallway to Nowhere , which

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you can find wherever fine podcasts

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are dispensed , and I will

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put a link to their website in the show notes . I

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do not want to spoil it for you , but

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Hallway to Nowhere is: It's a show

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that can be done with two people very

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easily, and it

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is one of the most compelling audio

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dramas I've heard this year , this year

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. Another one that I

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would recommend . This is another 11th hour

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audio piece . It's actually two

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podcast episodes . They're called

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EVP , that's , electronic

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voice phenomena EVP

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side B and EVP

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side A . Those

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are both 11th hour audio pieces from

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2022 . So

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when you get to the podcast episodes

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page on their website , you want to scroll way down

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. I highly

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recommend listening to those If

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you're thinking about write the show you can

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produce . And another one

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that I heard just recently that

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I really enjoyed and it is

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a great example of what you can do with two

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people and a lot of

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hard work . Longcat

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Media has many shows , most

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notably Mockery Manor

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, and they also have their show . Ghosted

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was excellent . Madam

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Magenta and her trusty

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husband Bernard , who

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I love both of them performed

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at the London podcast

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festival and they did

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a live show . That is

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a very simple two person episode and it

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struck the right balance between funny

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, satirical and thought provoking

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and scary . I

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highly recommend it . Give

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it a listen and

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let's have some fun . I

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am going to give you a writing exercise this time

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. Write a page or so of dialogue

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using the

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following four sounds

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, all of which are from freesoundorg . Ready

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go . (Sounds)

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Okay , yes , this was an extremely short

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show but , like I said , we're in a holding

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pattern and figuring out what we're gonna do next

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. And also it's October , which is

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the cruelest month . Everything happens

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in October . That's our show . We

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want to hear from you, again , write to us at

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writersadwit@gmail

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. com . We're gonna have a survey coming soon with fabulous

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prizes , and

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thank you for listening . You

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know you're out there . Thank you for joining

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us , thank you for being here , and we will

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work together with you

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soon .

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You lucky folks have been listening to the

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audio drama writers independent

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tool kit hosted by Sarah Golding

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and Lindsay Harris Friel Audio

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engineering , sound design and music

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Gorgeous music by Vincent

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Friel . If you

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enjoy what you heard , oh , please do

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write us a review on PodChaser or

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on Apple Podcasts or

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any PodChaser . Quite frankly , we'd love

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to hear what you think . Or you can tweet

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about us if you like . Yes , our Twitter handle

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is at adwitpodcast and

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please do keep in touch . We'd love to know

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how you're getting on with all the exercises and

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more . Or if you just want to say hello , do that

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too . You can write to us at writersadwittcom

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and for more information about what

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we're doing and what we're up to and how , visit

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our website at adwitt . org

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. Thank you very much for listening

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people . I hope you have a good day . Take

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care bye .

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