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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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By: rkalajian
An interesting and daring book which doesn't seem to follow the normal conventions of fiction. The story changes in plot and pace a bit throughout the book, with an almost intentional plodding right in the middle. This slow portion of the book just helps build the the eventual change in the main character, and leads him to the path of the truth he's always know. A great story, with the author taken refreshing, and much needed risks in his writing.By: Jessica
I liked most of the book but it took a turn for the worst near the end. It seemed like the author didn't know how to end the story and just turned it into fantasy in the borrowed setting of Peter Pan, with Tinkerbell as the love interest. It would have been better if the original story had been resolved, rather than just abandoned.By: Annoyance
I am surprised that this does not have an explicit tag. peace, chuck
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 |
| Episode 12 (24.81 MB) | In which the main character faces harsh criticism from the other people in his local writing group for the somewhat controversial content of his novel, following which he decides once again to set aside his novel in progress and go in a new direction. | Nov 20, 2008 |
| Episode 13 (26.76 MB) | In which the main character, remembering the first time he'd met Peter Pan, steps out of a plane in mid-air... and then in which he returns to Never-never Land for an emotional reunion with Tink. | Nov 28, 2008 |
| Episode 14 (25.27 MB) | In which Sally and Ariadne discuss the main character's disappearance, and in which he convinces Tink to leave Never-never Land with him, soon after which they happen upon the villages of Titana and Old Titana, meeting an amicable Titan along the way. | Dec 5, 2008 |
| Episode 15 (23.42 MB) | In which the main character and Tink reach Haven, find an Inn and get a room, have a good night's sleep, eat breakfast, and take a bath before washing the dishes. | Dec 12, 2008 |
| Episode 16 (32.06 MB) | In which the main character and Tink get dressed, exchange introductions with Trunk, the two-headed inkeeper, and then visit Haven's old museum. | Dec 19, 2008 |
| Episode 17 (23.21 MB) | In which the main character and Tink get a glimpse of their future together, get engaged, and find themselves surrounded at their engagement party by friends and neighbors they didn't know they had, and then in which Ariadne calls Sally, panicked that the main character may finally have killed himself. | Dec 26, 2008 |
| Episode 18 (19.13 MB) | In which the police break in to the main character's house at Ariadne's anxious request, the doomsday Paul predicted in Episode 1 comes to pass right on schedule, and in which -ten years later- we find out about Tink and the main character's life together in Haven on their final day there. | Jan 2, 2009 |