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Welcome back to the Brave Rider podcast.

Hi, Melissa.

Hi, Julie.

So great to have everybody here listening in.

And just a reminder, if you love our show, would you share it with a friend, like it, review it, give us a few stars.

That helps amplify its message and it really helps support us. So thank you so much. And, you know, use our sponsors. That helps the show keep going. Today we want to talk about a topic that is near and dear to my heart. You know,

Melissa, back when I started Brave Rider in January of 2000, I had just written The Writer's Jungle.

And during the year 1999, I feel like a Prince song coming on, I had just written The Writers' Jungle. And during the year 1999, I feel like a print

song coming on, I was deep in the weeds of other writing programs. I was reviewing how

other people put together writing assignments. And the more that I reviewed them, the more annoyed

I became. And I felt kind of snarky about it. And so while I was writing the writer's

jungle, I included a chapter called dumb writing assignments. Like I did not mince words. There was no nuance.

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