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I'm back for this year of 2026 with 3 all new mini story ideas to keep my story creative podcast going hopefully before WW3. 

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Wrapping up the Holiday season with this second Christmas story where our of course jaded character finds themselves in, of course a small town at rush of the Holiday season but end up in an unusual store looking for last minutes gifts. Thanks for listening. 

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Welcome to the Holiday Season with a new Christmas story idea that I created for my "Naughty Santa" theme of Stories this season. 

Thanks for listening to the Story Creative Podcast.

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I know the jingle bells are jingling but wait, hold on, I have a spontaneous older idea that I'm bringing back to life with some newer inspirations that I wanted to get out before the end of the year and my Christmas episodes. Enjoy and thanks for listening. 

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I'm back towards the end of the year with a new season and a new story idea to go alone with it. This time I'm bringing a new character and idea featuring, cults, shaman, charlatans, and a hero's journey. Also, I further overcome my creativity fear of working on something that has already been done. 

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I'm ending Spooky Season with a new episode made up of 3 mini stories based on the themed of Past, Present and Future. 

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Cole and sidekicks are back for another Monster of the Week episode, but this time we are in Spooky Season. 
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Your favorite Story Creative podcast is back from a cliffhanger break, where our hero finds themselves in search of Sidekicks, but meets a new unknown threat. 

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I'm back from the dead to keep my Monster of the Week series going with our hero Cole. This time, I take a quick aside to create some friends to help Cole in his adventures. 

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We come to the exciting conclusion of the Domo-Komo Monster of the Week saga with Cole the Shaman figuring a way to defeat the monster. 

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I'm back with another Monster of the Week and this time I'm world building for a two-headed Yokai named Domo-Komo

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I return after a almost small health break to bring back a favorite of mine with Cole the Shaman and the Insecta story line. This time I extend the Insecta story to include a Monster of the Week feature for Cole to fight. 

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I return with a podcast check-in of my state of things and Triple Feature of mini ideas. 

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I'm up to 3 episodes for my You and Yours story idea based on a very confusing multi-dimensional world. With this last episode (for now) in the series, I go over all the rules and lore to fill out the story world. 
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After taking a long break to re-gather myself and weird thoughts, I'm back to do the promised 2nd episode of the Multiple - Bubble world episode of You and You. Now called You and Your as I bring back my old Insecta story line to finish that, and bring the now Hero Cole to this story. 

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I'm back with a new idea and with this one I talking, multiples, doppelgängers, the multi-bubble universe, and the 90's. 

I'm bringing back an old spooky episode from last year (Vampyr's Echo) with some new story ideas and updates. 

Also, content warning that this episode talks about spiders, sorry if that's not your thing. 

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We are back with a continuation of my New Years ghost story where I shape my first story of a ghostly visitor. 

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Welcome to a new year (2025) and come with new ideas for you and me. 

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The Christmas creep is in full and and I have a new story about movie that involves a Christmas Road trip. I don't remember what I actually named it while creating the episode but hope you enjoy. Also, it's not a love story, I repeat, it's not a love story. 

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It's the beginning of December so that means we are officially on the Christ Creep. This episode is my first and hopefully not only Christmas season idea episode. 

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I know, a break happened, things in the real world happened, but I'm back to recap what I was able to cover this spooky season and what I wasn't able to get to...for reasons. 

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Spooky season continues with another spooky tale that introduces a new folklore/mythology element to Vampyrs. 

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Spooky Season 2024 continues as I'm back with my next story creation and this time, I'm making it into a spooky Cryptid story. 

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Spooky Season continues with my short second episode set in the golden age 70's disco era. 

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It's officially spooky season and I'm kicking it off with my first spooky story set in Mexico City. 

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Thanks to Valentina A from fiverr for the ghost voice. 

Season 3 continues with the newest idea that I've working on as I go back to the Save the Cat way of writing a screenplay. This episode I come up with a LogLine, the movie/story type, and finding more references to build on. 

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Guess who's back, it's me again and this time I fulfilled my promise of starting Season 3. This idea takes me back in time the Golden Age of HollywoodLand for a vintage Mystery. 

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Here we are, at the end of Season 2. 

I made a decision to end the current season and with that ending the long form Cake and Insecta ideas I was working on in this audio podcast format. 

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I've returned on time this time with my continuing Cake in Two Story Redo Idea for the 11th time. This episode I talk about how I still want my hero Eldin to succeed in the story buy staying humble with his new love interest. 

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The insects are back again, as I continue this Insecta story. 

This time my research takes me all the way back to Mesopotamia Mythology as find new over-arching background characters to add to my story. 

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We're back again, with cakes, again this time in the continuation of the rom-com story creation tale of Eldin the baker. 

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I'll be honest, that I've hit a slump and in order to get back into the groove of creativity and recording, I've come up with a new idea in help to get the creative juices flowing...hopefully. 

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I'm back after a bit of a break to return with Insecta, but this time in a different form...

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the Cake is still in the Bake and we are back with Cake in two Redo part 9. In this one, I break down the fear that is being used in the relationship between Andrey and Eldin. 

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I still got insects on the brain and I continue my Insecta story creation this time adding more to my own Mothman folklore, and introduce some insect science and spirituality in to the mix. 

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Yes, procrastination has been me, but I'm back and still with cake. I continue filling in the back story of my cake story, this time with addition to the characters Andrey and Eldin and how their relationship may work or have worked. 
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Back in the middle of the week with my continuing Monster of the mid-week story line. This one I go more into how I see the backstory developing with inspirations from the Mothman folklore. 

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Hope you're hungry because I'm back with cake and part 7.

I'm back with the update to my watch list for Cake in Redo story with the Birdcage and finally finished Bros. Also, I work on the visual type for my hero Eldin.

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It's a mid-week Monster of the week episode and we are talking about bugs baby!

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Cake, we are back again. This time for part 6 as I detail my ideas for the B-story, the appearances of the villain to the Hero and their separation. 

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We are back early with a surprise bonus episode...and this time, it's not about cake!

I pop up with a new idea that takes me down a true idea driven rabbit hole of references and inspirations. 

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We're back, and for the 5th time, we are still talking about cake. Yes, my cake redo story is still taking shape, this time I'm creating the great gay cake villain. 

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We are back, we are still eating our cake in 2 but this is part 4. 

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We're back, and still with more cake. The saga continues for my "Cake Redo" story as I rewrite some of the previous details and continue the story. D1NjIdnqLHfhNRaZAjGP

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So the original Cake in Two idea lives on in this Re-redo where I continue my ideas for the story by going through more of the setup, characters and opening. 

Mistakes: yes, I know the title to the movie I was referencing is Trading Places instead of Spaces and that the Marriage of Figaro is an opera instead of a play. 
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In my attempt to follow the "Save the Cat!" screen writing guidelines, I go back to and old episode from last year to add proper titles and log lines. This ends up with me coming up with a total new REDO episode idea. 
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Orignal Cake in Two episode 

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A Modern Hamlet Revenge Tale - After being inspired by a breakdown of Hamlet, I get inspired to write the sequel to Training Day set as a Hamlet style revenge tale. 

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After having to rethink my love story inspired idea, I revisit and old in work idea. 

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I got no strings, to hold me down...I'm back this episode with an episode from the Victorian Era that involves cameras and AI. 

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