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Lost and Not Found by Teel McClanahan III
Fiction
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Lost and Not Found details one man’s journey all the way from being laid off from his mundane corporate job to becoming the author he truly dreams to be by following his attempt to write his first novel within the challenging timeframe of only four weeks. As his story unfolds we get to read what he is writing and can see the relationship between the author and his work unfold until his life literally unfolds around him.
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Chapters
| Title | Description | Date Created |
| Episode 1 (29.21 MB) | In which the main character first resolves to write a novel, and then begins to try to talk his friends into writing novels alongside him. Also in this episode, Paul explains his doomsday prediction theories and goes into detail about his evidence that a catastrophic worldwide event is soon to occur. | Sep 19, 2008 |
| Episode 2 (30.36 MB) | In which the main character attempts to talk the rest of his friends into writing novels with him, and then the next day has an inexplicably illogical and irrevocable meeting at work that will change the constraints of his own writing challenge. | Sep 19, 2008 |
| Episode 3 (28.49 MB) | In which, after a brief recap of the results of the fateful meeting in the previous episode, Ariadne and Sally discuss the main character's writing -past and present- along with his expectantly suicidal demeanor and undiminished desirability, and then the main character -after a week of painful anticipation- finds himself stumped for story ideas when the time comes to start writing. | Sep 19, 2008 |
| Episode 4 (33.17 MB) | In which the main character's novel begins, following the story of a man discovering that he has super powers by accident, and during the writing of which only one other person shows up for the meeting, and then only to bring further disappointment. | Sep 27, 2008 |
| Episode 5 (27.3 MB) | In which the main character continues writing Job's story of discovering his powers, and then goes through a ridiculously disorganized job interview experience. | Oct 3, 2008 |
| Episode 6 (29.07 MB) | In which the main character writes a sort of origin- or back- story for his superhero character, Job, detailing the secrets of his birth and early life, and later writes about Job's experimentation with flight and super-sight, far from civilization. | Oct 10, 2008 |
| Episode 7 (29 MB) | In which the main character, despite finally getting a chance to meet with and write with other writers, begins to lose faith in his ability to write a superhero's story properly -especially after doing a bit of research on the subject of superheroic story arcs- and during the course of which he writes about Job's discovery of super strength, extremely rapid healing, and his first steps toward designing his costume. | Oct 19, 2008 |
| Episode 8 (32.41 MB) | In which the main character, after a disappointing meeting with the other writers, and after writing a disappointing meeting between his superhero character Job and the journalist from the beginning of his story, becomes so disillusioned that he gives up on that story and starts a new one from scratch, this time about his own past relationships, writing them out with all the intimate, personal details he can recall. | Oct 24, 2008 |
| Episode 9 (36.86 MB) | In which David -the protagonist of the main character's second attempt at writing a novel, a thinly veiled fictionalization of his own love life- meets, dates, finds love with, and loses Dawn. | Nov 3, 2008 |
| Episode 10 (32.14 MB) | In which the main character shows up to another less-than-encouraging write-in, and in which he writes about a dark turn his romantic life had taken, a strange one, and then into what turned into his first long-distance relationship. | Nov 11, 2008 |
| Episode 11 (25.98 MB) | In which the main character's continuing second attempt to write a novel in a month follows his first long distance relationship and includes several more of his saved love letters and the details of how David finds himself falling in love with Renee in time to do something about it. | Nov 14, 2008 |