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This is an interesting twist. I would not have thought of an index. Great job!

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Thanks, Matthew. The one next Saturday is also challenging, but in a different way :-)

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Really enjoying your experiments!

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With a head cold and a fever, I'm afraid this is above my pay grade today. Look forward to giving it a go when the fog clears! :D

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Sorry to hear that, Kerri. Wish you better 😕

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Good for free writes, too, to get started when stuck.

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Great idea, Mary, thanks. (Though I never get stuck: I have writer's flood rather than writer's block! 😂

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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

I love a good index! And an index of a short story! Fantastic!

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We aim to please! Thanks, Jillian :-)

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Really great! Clever.

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Cheers, Joel :-)

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This is so great, Terry! It's such a clever deconstruction of a piece of text for my brain to reconstruct - I love it! The sparseness is clever - you've been really selective in what you've chosen to index, which has made me get my thinking gears grinding.

Bravo!

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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

(but in all seriousness, very good Terry. Though I too am scratching my head. It is late here, though that is a poor excuse. Some letters are missing? The m comes up in the wrong place a few times?)

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Thanks for pointing out the errant 'm's. I hadn't noticed that the formatting went awry when I copied and pasted from Word. Thus, for example, concussion should have been concussion, mild. But the comma got lost and the 'mild' ended up on a new line.

I will reveal the missing word tomorrow. -)

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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Aha, that makes sense. Pesky formatting. I shall take another look with fresher eyes soon.

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Thanks for drawing my attention to it. I'm not bad at writing, but cr*p at proofreading!

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Mar 19, 2023Liked by Terry Freedman

Ah,

Brilliant!

Clever

Doings

Empower

Freedman,

Grace

Hungry

Inboxes.

Jestful

Knowing

Loquacious

Mediums,

Notes,

Op-eds,

Posts,

Questions...

Remind

Slake

To

Utter

Verbs

With

Xennial

Zestfulness.

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very good!

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I’m new here and this is all intriguing! What’s missing? Ah, my organising brain just can’t help itself - the things that you do - reading, prevaricating and being petrified... I have no idea if this is the sort of thing you mean, but at least you’ve got me reading old stories / articles / blogs / whatever they’re called on Substack, and then thinking and commenting!!

(I’m here because someone else I’m sampling writes you a letter each fortnight, so I subscribed so as not to miss your response!). (I have no idea how working people have time for this app. I’m retired and I have trouble keeping up with the few writers I’ve subscribed to!)

Anyway, thanks for the mental stimulation. Best wishes from Australia.

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Hello from Australia too, Beth.

And as Terry says, everyone has trouble keeping up, but that's part of the fun of Substack.

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Mar 19, 2023·edited Mar 19, 2023Author

all will be revealed in my post tomorrow (if I remember!) And if it's any consolation, EVERYBODY has trouble keeping up!

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Oh blimey. Okay, I've just read the very first bit of your follow-up post, and realised that I hadn't done the exercise of finding what's missing in THIS one. So I haven't READ 'Start the Week' yet, because I'm trying to wrap my head around this little conundrum.

Is it little, though? No, it's MASSIVE.

Awake?

Semi-conscious?

I mean, I KNOW that I'M clearly not the former, and am probably the latter, because I GIVE UP.

(AGAIN.)

Right, heading back to 'Start the Week' to find out what the answer is. You can go off people, you know....... 🙄

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