Halfway Point

I was writing last night, and when I finished I took a look at my year-to-date total. This is what I saw:

I have officially made it to the halfway mark of my goal to reach 300,000. That was pretty exciting. The halfway point in the year isn't until the twenty-sixth of this month, so still a few days away.

It's not as big of a deal as it seems, however, because as long as I stick with my plan, I will obliterate that 300,000 mark. I gave myself two months to just get back into the swing of things before I tried to get to my actual pace of 1,000 words a day. I didn't start that until January, and I've given myself just ten months to actually reach 300,000. Writing 1,000 a day should get me about 30,000 words a month, which means in ten months I'll be at 300,000.

In November and December, as I was getting back into the swing of things, I wrote 26,883 words. So, I should be at least that much over the line when the my birthday rolls around again. All the same, it's cool to hit the halfway mark, especially a week shy of the actual halfway point of the year. So, there's that.

Thanks For The Reminder

When we were out grocery shopping this weekend, I saw this sign up on an easel at Costco.

So informative and helpful. I almost forgot that social distancing was six feet. I was starting to feel like it was only four feet, but that sign set me straight, and just in time.

My wife says that it has something to do with the orders passed down from our dear leaders on high. She says that she has to have signs like that where she works too, or they might get shut down or something. I did notice that there were signs everywhere we went, on easels, on walls, stuck to the ground. If you didn't know it was six feet, they were going to make sure you did. Of course, if you didn't know it was six feet, you probably have no idea what the term social distancing means at all. It certainly isn't intuitive. It sounds about as intuitive as altitudinally challenged or some of the other things people used to say when they made fun of political correctness (before it became politically incorrect to make fun of political correctness that is).

So, I guess I know who to complain about. The big brained folks in the government are always there to save us from ourselves. Thanks everybody. Six feet apart or six feet under, I guess.

Net Neutral

I was walking around the building at work the other day, and I found this room that I'd never noticed before.

It's probably too small to read, so here's a close up of the label beside the door.

I don't think my work quite understands the whole chat room concept. It's not an actual room, folks...

Oh well. I guess I can go in there whenever I feel like getting on my phone and chatting on Discord or something like that.

Spiderwoman Gains A Fan

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Book Report: Outlining, Chapter 3

It's time for chapter three of K.M. Weiland’s book, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success.

Our subject in this chapter is the very first step of outlining. The PREMISE SENTENCE. The premise sentence is where you distill your story down to a single sentence that encapsulates the entire thing. You simplify the story all the way down to its core.

The premise sentence may change as time goes along, and you come up with new ideas for the tale, but it's important to have at the start, to focus your thoughts. Weiland says:

Your goal is to create a sentence that conveys the characters, setting, and central conflict, first generally...and then in the most specific way possible.

That sounds a little daunting, but I suppose it can be done. How do you get there? Weiland suggests asking yourself a whole bunch of what if questions. Think of every possible thing that could happen in your story. What if this character is actually in love with that character instead of the other character? What if this character dies? Or in my case, what if this character doesn't actually die? So on and so on. It will mostly be garbage, but some of those ideas may jump out at you and catch you by the short hairs, and demand to be included in your story. The more casting about for possibilities, the more likely you'll add some unexpected twists to your tale that will make it stand out from the rest.

Another thing she suggests is asking what is expected questions. Take all those things about your story that are expected to happen, like the good guys winning in the end or the romantic leads ending up together, or the main characters surviving (or in my case, not surviving) and consider turning some of them on their heads. Try something unexpected if it sounds interesting. Again, it might make your story stand out from the herd.

Okay, so, what if questions are good to get the creative juices flowing, but eventually, we gotta refine it down to the premise sentence. Weiland gives the example of the premise sentence for her novel called Dreamlander:

Renegade journalist Chris Redstone discovers his dreams are really memories of a world he live in while he sleeps, which he will, reluctantly, have to fight to save from destruction.

Sounds a lot like, Onward to the Breech, a story that I wrote several years back and presented on the Anklecast. Perhaps the dream, is dreaming us, astride the backs of eagles.

So, she identifies the main character, giving him a name, occupation, and a personality trait. She identifies the central conflict, so you know what the plot will involve.

Okay, I'm going to give it a shot. Let's see if I can write the premise sentence for my book, The Gauntlet, that I want to write next:

A pair of damaged orphan college students, Ramona and Sebastian Jones, receive an ancient gauntlet that has been passed down from the days of Sir Galahad, drafting them into the fight against an ancient evil bent on ruling the both the fairy otherworld and the earth as well.

How does that sound? Does the premise interest you at all? I think it's pretty good, but I'm not sure if it's perfect or not. I originally didn't have "college students" in there, but Weiland said that occupation was important. I also didn't originally have "damaged" in their either, but she said a defining characteristic was important to have as well. I don't know if orphans is enough of a characteristic or not, so I expanded it a little.

Truthfully, it feels a little wordy, but I guess it's still possible that I can change it down the road. We'll see how it goes.

So, why is the premise sentence important? Well, even if you are not an outliner, if you do just the premise sentence, it can help keep you on track, and help you avoid unnecessary side trips that you'll have to excise later.

If you have your premise sentence, you will know where to go next. All the questions that the premise sentence inspires need to be explored. Weiland talks about where her premise for Dreamlander led her:

What was this dream world like? Why was Chris the only one who discovered it? Why was it in danger of destruction?

A good jumping off point that can lead a lot of places. Keep asking the questions and figuring out the answers to them.

One other plus, with a premise sentence, you have an easy answer to people who ask you what your new book you're writing is about. Spit out that premise sentence, rather than spend five minutes trying to explain the story, only to find that they lost interest four minutes ago. Also, you can use that sentence when you're trying to sell the book to editors or agents or whoever (if you go that route).

Once you have your premise, Weiland suggests that you ask some general questions:

• What are four or five big moments that will occur in the plot?
• Can you think of at least two complications for each of these moments?
• Will these complications push your characters in way s that make them uncomfortable?
• What additional settings will these complications demand?
• Which character will be the protagonist?
• Which character will be affected most by the inciting event?
• Does the character have at least two major problems or anxieties in his life? Which offers the most potential for conflict and drama?
• How does this problem affect other characters?

Look for the answers that really add to the drama and the conflict, and that can really create an arc for your characters. Those are the things that everybody loves to read about, and will make an impact on your readers. I'm going to have to sit down and ponder on all of these for my story.

She suggests taking time for some brainstorming, which is when you travel around giving exhibitions of flying and performing aeronautical stunts, I believe. It was popular in the 1920's, and I suppose it is the ancestor of the airshows that happen today with the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds. Oh, I'm sorry, R. 080-T is telling me that what I was just talking about is actually called barnstorming. Brainstorming, the droid says, is a process for coming up with ideas. Let's see what Weiland says, since I have no idea.

Give yourself some quiet time to let your mind wander. Don't censor yourself. No idea is too stupid to at least consider. Push your left brain into the closet for a while, so your right brain can be free to wander. You can square your ideas with logic later. Focus on your senses. Maybe you'll just get images or smells or sounds or tastes or feelings. Those could be the very crux of your story, but if you don't pay attention, you might miss them. And listen to your gut instinct. If it feels like there is something wrong, or something missing, or whatever, follow that feeling until you figure out what it is.

Let me add my one suggestion to all of that. Turn your phone onto the voice memo program, and record yourself while you do all of this brainstorming and daydreaming. Talk your way through it all out loud. It's my trick to keep myself on topic. If I just sat under a tree somewhere, looking at the clouds and pondering the intricacies of my upcoming story, it wouldn't be long before I was wondering who would be playing Moon Knight in the upcoming Disney Plus series, how many more commutes did I have left before I had that fatal accident that would end my life, and how much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could, in fact, chuck wood.

So, there's chapter three. I've got my sentence. I need to ask myself some what ifs, some what is expecteds, and that list of questions above, to get some more depth in my story.

Up next is Chapter 4 General Sketches, Pt. 1: connecting the Dots. I have no idea what that might mean, so it should be interesting.

Sweeping April At The Halfway Mark

When I started this month, I was just finishing up a Christmas story called "Klaus Kringle" I'd been working on for an upcoming collection of Christmas stories. At that point, I should have moved on to writing on my next novel, The Gauntlet. I couldn't, however, because I hadn't taken the time to get my preproduction outlining taken care of. I needed something else to work on.

Worst yet, I finished "Klaus Kringle" at 941 words for the day. I hadn't hit 1,000 words quite yet. I needed another 59 to meet my goal. I happened to be talking to Rish Outfield on the phone at the time, and he took the initiative to give me a story prompt. It went something like this: You come home from work, and hear the computer dinging, because your daughter has left her discord running. You click the program to see what is going on, and wish you hadn't...

I thought I could run with that. If nothing else, I could write an opening paragraph that I throw away the next day and never use. An opening paragraph was all I got that night. Enough to push me over the line to 1,126 words. The next day, in the shower, I started thinking about the fact that I needed to write some more, and I figured I better come up with something that the guy might see on his daughter's computer screen when he looked. I worked on it while I washed my hair and scrubbed my rugged well-muscled physique, and before I knew it, I had the story.

It only took two days to pound that one out. That one is called "Party Girl," and it runs 2,989 words. Now I found myself in the same situation as the other day, not ready for The Gauntlet, and no idea where to go next. That is what led to my big screw up, that I detailed in a previous post.



Yeah, for the first time since January 19th, I failed to write a thousand words in a day. I did write, but it was only 132 words. At this point, I feel like I can fart out 132 words. Writing only 132 words feels like a major failure.

Rish suggested that I write double the next day to make up for it. I didn't think that was possible, but I could push myself harder for a couple of days in a row and make up for it. If I was going to beat March's total of 34,702 words in April, then I was going to have to make up for that screw up. I managed to get 1,682 the next day, which is about 500 more than usual. Two days later I made it to 1,558, another day of nearly 500 more than usual. Another day I got 1,798. it was becoming a habit. I was pretty sure I'd made up for the bad day, and with all the other above par performances, I was looking pretty good.

To beat March, I have to get 1,157 words per day. So far in April my average is 1,303. So, I could probably even slack off a little bit and still get by, and it might be smart if I do, because in May I'll have to beat April, and that will be really hard if I overdo it in April. Then again, wouldn't that be contrary to the point?

The new story I've been writing has been ballooning. As I said in that previous post, the story is another Christmas story that I pulled from a list of prompts. It's about an enchanted ornament. I'm calling this one "Crossing the Globe."

At first it was just a nasty little tale about some people with no moral center solving a problem in a despicable way, but when I told Rish about that, it made me think that I ought to try writing a sequel to the story where good people got the ornament, and dealt with it completely differently. Well, now I have collapsed the two stories into one story with two distinct parts, and I'm writing on that. I'm through the part about the despicable folks, and into the part about the others. Today, I'm at 11,582, and it's got a while to go.

It may end up as a novella, which is a story between 17,500 and 40,000 words. So far, I've only ever written one novella before. Seems like it would be good to have a novella to anchor a collection of short stories, though. So, it'll be cool. I'm enjoying writing the story, and that's what matters most to me.

So, as of today, April 14th, I am at 18,253 words. Here's my chart with the embarrassing blip on the sixth:

For the whole year, I'm almost to 150,000 words. I should hit that by the end of this week. Right now I sit at 145,635 words. Here's my year-to-date chart for you to peruse:

So, things are going good in April despite my one day memory slip. Maybe the memory slip actually helped, because I've upped my production some. This is looking to be the best month so far, and I can't complain about that.

I'll talk to y'all again when the month is up.

Art Defeat

 I told you a little while back about how my daughter's art earned her a spot in the statewide competition.

Unfortunately, as you might have guessed, with the canceling of school through Easter and then extending that cancellation through the rest of the school year, her special trip to Austin (or San Antonio) is not happening. I think they'll still do the judging of the art, but all the joy that could have been experienced is gone, gone, gone.

When I told you about it, I talked about how excited I was for her to get the opportunity. I never got to do anything like that when I was in school...but now it looks like she never will either, despite having earned it fair and square.

Sorry kid. I wish things had gone different for you.

The Brick Bunny

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Book Report: Outlining, Chapter 2

It’s another post where I talk about what I’ve learned from reading K.M. Weiland’s book, Outlining Your Novel: Map Your Way to Success.

Took me way too long to get around to doing the second chapter. I really need to be totally done with this whole book, so that I can be outlining my next novel, The Gauntlet, and getting started with the writing of it, but I haven't. So, I'm spinning my wheels writing a bunch of Christmas short stories for a collection I want to put out this winter. It's very important, though, that I get on with this, because sooner or later, all of those stories end. Then what do I do next? Can't move on to The Gauntlet until I get that pre-production work done.

Chapter two is a pretty simple chapter. She starts by telling us that the best way to outline is the way that works for you personally. Her book will share her own outlining process, and she recommends that each author choose only the parts of that process that they think will work for them. If you believe that something won’t work for you then don’t force yourself to do it. Seems obvious, but I suppose some folks need to hear that.

Before moving on to chapter three, she gives a few alternative methods to outlining or supplemental tools. The first one is a mind map. I remember a teacher instructing us on mind maps when I was in grade school. You write your central idea, then branch off from there writing anything and everything that comes to mind that goes with that central idea.

I've never found a lot of use in a mind map, even back in elementary school I thought they were dumb, but maybe it would work for you. I don't know. We all tend to be different after all. I can still be friends with you even if you like mind maps.

She talks about a pictorial outline, which is cool, and I've done a little of. It's not exactly a different kind of outline so much as a suggestion to include pictures in your outline as well. For example, in the pre-pro work I did for The Gauntlet so far, I found photos of people to cast as my main characters. This is Ramona, our main character:

And her brother Sebastian, our other main character:

I don't even know who these pictures are of. I just searched on the internet for pictures of people who looked a certain way, and scrolled through the photos until I found ones that I thought fit the bill. I also grabbed a picture for the Ogre that they would face:

And one for the manticore as well:

Those are to help me remember just what these things actually look like, so that I can describe them properly whenever I wind up describing them. I cast a few other characters as well. I didn't do it with too much, but K.M. Weiland suggests doing it with anything that you feel like--settings, props, or anything else.

Weiland suggests drawing a map of your land if you are doing something set in a non-earth location. Doesn't even have to be any good. Just a stick figure version would be enough to give you the spatial awareness you'll need to be able to say whether your character is going north or south when they get on their gryphon and fly to Bloodholm Keep.

Adding to that suggestion, I'm going to say that even if you are doing something on earth, figure out just where exactly it is taking place. I did that with my story Fireflies, finding the place where Oscar and Simi lived on Google Maps, and then extrapolating from that the likely places they might go, like when they had to go to the hospital to get stitches in Oscar's hand after Muno attacked. I also did it for Sunny & Gray part one, looking for a house that Rob could grow up in that would have easy access to some nearby woods that he could play in. I think it really helped, and I'll continue to do that.

Another thing she suggests is writing yourself the perfect review. You pretend to be a critic who just absolutely loves your book, and write a review that talks about all the things about it that were so good. I guess the idea is that it helps you understand what it is that you need to develop to make the book reach the level that it could receive that review or something. I don't know. I found this to be the most useless suggestion she had, but maybe you love it. We can still be friends, but if you keep this up, it's going to be hard.

Weiland made a few recommendation for some tools. She suggests writing your outlines with a pen and paper instead of typing them up on a computer. The idea is that it will keep you from trying to edit yourself. You just write and write until you're done. You can clean it up when you type it up after you've finished it all. Also, if you're writing with a pen and paper, you're not on a computer with an internet browser calling to you to come and waste time with it. The distractions can be minimized.

She suggests using a program called yWriter, which is free to download, but is kind of less useful for me because it isn't made for Macs. They have a beta version of it for Mac, but they suggest you not use it for anything important, just in case it eats it and vomits it back out as an Overwatch fan fic or something.

Weiland also suggests getting a calendar to plan things out with, just to make sure your week doesn't accidentally turn out to be nine days long because you got confused while writing. That seems wise. You can even look up online to find out what day of the week a particular date fell on if you are writing a historical story. That would be an added bit of realism.

That's it for chapter two. Next up, and hopefully not quite as far in the future as the last time, is Chapter 3: Crafting Your Premise.

Hap-Pez Easter!

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Joy

Rish posted this video on my Facebook timeline yesterday, saying "You will love this," probably because I posted this a little while ago. He couldn't have been more right. Possibly my favorite classical tune of all time, and what an interesting flashmob idea. If I had been one of the people on this street when it happened I would have been crying for joy...I mean, I kind of did just watching the video.

You Bleeeeeeeewwww It!

Monday, I was at a sort of crossroads. I had just finished a story the day before, and I hadn't managed to get any prep work done for what I was going to start writing next. I've been meaning to get started on "The Gauntlet", but I've got to do some of the outlining done before I start. I hadn't done that. But I still needed to write 1,000 words. That's my goal every day. It's usually easy, except when I'm switching from the end of one story to the start of another, like I was Monday.

I desperately cast about for something I could write. I talked with Rish about it on the phone, but hadn't made any decision by the time we were done. I thought I might do one more Christmas story for my upcoming collection, so I pulled up a list of prompts that I found on a website. One of the prompts seemed promising, so I spent some time thinking about it, and finally, at about 10:00 PM, I had it. I knew what I would write. Now I just had to do it.

It was pretty late already, though. I managed to get one paragraph written before I left work for home. I was committed to doing a live reading of a story with Marshal Latham, Renee Chambliss, and Rish for the Journey Into... Podcast when I got home though, so I was going to have to write after that, when I was finally finished.

We read through the story, and finished up at about 1:15 AM, and that's when I blew it. I guess getting wrapped up in acting my character on Marshal's story took my mind off writing or something, because I completely forgot that I needed to finish writing for the day. Instead, I messed around on the Facebook for a few minutes, then went to bed.

It wasn't until I was taking a shower the next morning that my mind wandered to my story idea, and I realized that I had forgot to get my 1,000 words. I was so upset. I've written 1,000 words a day every day since January 20th. That's 77 days in a row of 1,000 words. But that streak has ended.

I did still write a little, but I didn't hit my mark. I only did 132 words. Pretty lame, but I guess better than nothing. My writing streak continues, just not my 1,000 word writing streak. I may have blown it.



But I'm not that upset. The purpose of all of this is that I get in the habit of writing. That I make it my business. That I make it my raison d'être. And I feel that I have accomplished that. Tuesday, I got right back to it. I wrote on that new story idea, and even did a little extra to make up for my shortfall the day before. Tuesday I hit 1,682. I'll see if I can't get another big day today as well. Soon, my word count won't even show that I blew it.

The Full Bunny Brigade

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Happy Easter this weekend, everyone. Finished up my Easter display finally. Should have gotten around to it sooner, but other things were on my mind. #toys #whiterabbit #rabbitraider #whiterabbitandtherabbitraiders#marvellegendscollector #marvellegendscommunity #marvellegends #jazwares #jazwaresfortnite #fortnite #toycollector #toycollection #toycollectors #actionfigures #actionfigure #actionfigurecollection #actionfigurephotography #actionfigurecollection #easterbunnies #easterbunny #holidaydecorations #holidaydecor #bunnybrigade #easter

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Writer's Conference Crossover Episode

Rish and I got super ambitious and did something never done before on the Dunesteef family of podcasts. It's a crossover episode. This is part two where Rish and I continue to talk about the writer's conference. Follow the link to check it out. You can also find part one, where we started talking about the writer's conference on the Rish Outcast. Follow this link to check it out if you haven't yet.

Wear Your Mask

Optimus Prime has a message for you about the Coronavirus Pandemic. When the leader of the Autobots speak, it's probably important.

Facemask, Defense, 15-Yard Penalty, First Down!

The coronavirus task force recommended on Friday that if we had to go out to get groceries or if we work an essential service job, then we should wear a facemask. Well, I still have my old facemask up in my closet, so I grabbed it out:

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Everyone says we need to wear a facemask when we go out. Well I’ve got mine. What do you think? #biganklevich #facemask #facemaskselfie #covid #corona #coronamemes #football #dunesteef #dunesteefaudiofictionmagazine #bdanklevich

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My wife said that I wasn't doing it right. That look isn't in this season. She may be right, because no sports are in season anymore.

She knows how to sew, so she looked up a pattern, and sewed me a mask using the fabric of my choosing. So, now I look like this:

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The height of 2020 nerd fashion. It’s what’s on all of the runways these days...we’ll, it would be if the runways weren’t shut down. #biganklevich #facemask #facemaskselfie #covid #corona #coronamemes #football #dunesteef #dunesteefaudiofictionmagazine #bdanklevich #marvel #mcu #hulk #wolverine #marvelcomics #incrediblehulk #hulk #xmen

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I'll be the talk of the town, with the coolest look for the season.

The Longest Crescendo

When I saw this, I knew I had to share it.

When I was younger, I had a cassette with Holst's The Planets and Ravel's Bolero on it. I listened to it enough that they are now both among my favorite classical music pieces. Now, in these trying times (I believe it is law that you have to put that phrase into any blog post or news story now, it's one of the riders they added to the stimulus bill), with everyone staying home, there's not a lot of opportunity for classical music. After all, an orchestra requires a lot of people. They make a 10 person ska band look positively tiny. So, creativity is required. The National Orchestra of France got creative, and put out this totally awesome video that brought tears to my eyes (though I do cry easily, and at weird things, I admit).

Check it out, and love it.

Ain't No Sunshine

Bill Withers died today. Not COVID 19, just heart problems. I am not old enough to really remember his heyday. Severally of his songs are so well known that you can’t escape them, like “Lean On Me” and “Just the Two of Us”, my personal favorite from the man however is “Ain’t No Sunshine.” I’d only ever heard a cover of it by Sting, which was pretty good and I liked it a lot...



...until I went to see Notting Hill and was utterly blown away by how much better the original version was.



They used it in the soundtrack and it turned a normal breakup montage into a heart-rending moment all on its own. Here's Bill Withers performing the song on YouTube.



Sad day without him.

Things I Must Have

I know the economy is bad, but I have a toy collecting problem. A few things were announced this week that I simply must have. Behold:

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Can’t wait for this guy. This is what All the GI Joe figs should look like Hasbro. This is what we’re after. Keep it in mind, and be sure to get us a new classic version of Duke, Scarlett, and Roadblock. #gijoe #hasbro #toys #toycollector #toycollection #toycollectors #actionfigures #actionfigure #actionfigurecollection #actionfigurephotography #actionfigurecollection #arealamericanhero #destro #destrogijoe #vintagetoys #cobra

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And this too:

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Cant wait for this either. Have I said before that I love anything and everything Return of the Jedi? I love absolutely anything related to the Return Of The Jedi. #starwars #rotj #endor #teddybear #toys #toycollector #toycollection #toycollectors #actionfigures #actionfigure #actionfigurecollection #actionfigurephotography #actionfigurecollection #actionfigurecommunity #ewoks #ewok #returnofthejedi #endor #teebo

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I Lost At Craps

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Everyone else is posting pictures of their new six inch Snake Eyes, but mine is sadly in the second wave of deliveries and may take another month (or more) to arrive. So, since I can’t join in the fun, I’ll post pictures of the Snake Eyeses that I already have. #gijoe #hasbro #toys #toycollector #toycollection #toycollectors #actionfigures #actionfigure #actionfigurecollection #actionfigurephotography #actionfigurecollection #arealamericanhero #snakeeyes #snakeeyesgijoe #funkopops #funko #gijoe25thanniversary #vintagetoys

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