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This episode introduces the podcast's premise - two artists, Dave Brown and Jon Bode, embarking on a creative journey inspired by the number seven. It explores the origins of the project, introduces The PaperBoats' "Seven Creative Principles" and delves into the nature of creativity itself. The episode sets the stage for the quirky, introspective exploration of the creative process that will unfold over the series. PLEASE CLICK ON ...

Diving deeper into their creative experiment, this episode explores the beginnings of Dave and Jon's collaboration and introduces the principles of "co-creation" and "limiting the palette" revealing how constraints can lead to unexpected innovations. The process of building modules from random content is described leading to the creation of Special Agent 7's story-song about the mysterious appearances of the "Tinsel Man".

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Listeners are invited into the untamed wilderness of creativity where Dave discusses the danger of early censorship and the importance of protecting "ugly babies" - those awkward early creative ideas with hidden potential. Through Jon's satirical characters like Gordon Oliver and Paul McCartony, they demonstrate how embracing creative chaos leads to unexpected connections and happy accidents.

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Through the continuing story of Paul McCartony and Gordon Oliver's culinary connection, Dave and Jon explore Seth Godin's "Purple Cow Theory" and the courage to stand out while being different. Dave digs into the crucial tension between whimsy and logic in creative processes, using the parable of Henry and Amy to illustrate how these seemingly opposing forces must work together in equal partnership.

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Episode FIVE explores the mysterious "liminal spaces" where creativity flourishes - those twilight moments between consciousness and dreaming where our "default mode network" makes unexpected connections. Through anecdotes about Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" (originally "Scrambled Eggs") and Dave's own creative epiphanies, the episode reveals how letting go of conscious control allows our unconscious mind to solve creative problems....

Episode SIX introduces more eccentric characters to the Sevenwell Circus, including French tin foil artist Pierre Depardieu and operatic tenor Antonio Goldini, while exploring the nagging doubt that plagues creative endeavors. As Dave grapples with whether their "creative frolic" will ever amount to anything worthwhile, the story connections between the characters begin to emerge, revealing surprising intersections between the Tins...

Episode SEVEN marks the pivotal midpoint of the journey, revealing how Dave and Jon transformed their collection of random characters and content into the very podcast listeners are experiencing. Inspired by meta-fictional podcasts like "Appearances" and "Welcome to Night Vale," they explain the three-layered structure they've created. The episode weaves fact and fiction as they share the true history of their 30-year relationship,...

Episode EIGHT plunges listeners into the creative wilderness of dead ends and breakthroughs as Dave reveals the frustrating months he spent trying to find a narrative framework for the sevenwell story-world. After hitting wall after wall in early 2022, Dave finally breaks through by embracing Alex Miller's wisdom about letting stories reveal themselves organically.

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Creative uncertainty reigns as Dave confronts the frustration and self-doubt that comes with the effort of trying to form a clear picture of where the project is heading. 

When conceptual approaches fail, Dave continues to find a way forward inspired by novelist Alex Miller’s observation that “The story reveals itself to me as I proceed with the book and it is nearly always a surprise.”

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Step through the purple haze of the Gossamer as Episode 10 unveils the childhood story of Pauly Paul McCartony and his best friend Violet Greenslade in the world of Sevenwell. When seven-year-old Violet mysteriously vanishes to Glastonbury, young Pauly attempts an extraordinary feat with his "wonder torch" and a tinfoil rocket ship to find her again.

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Episode 12 . This episode zooms between the cosmic and the deeply personal, exploring how little "c" creativity helps us make sense of loss, existence, and what it means to have been here at all. Dave and Jon's continue to vie for narrative asendency as the poignant story of Pauly/Paul and Violet clashes with Jon's Weetbix sponsorship aspirations.

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Ever wondered what keeps a podcast ticking like a well-oiled machine? In this episode, Dave pulls back the curtain on the "story engine" powering ItPoM — before plunging headlong into the Gossamer, where a Weetbix sponsorship teeters on the brink, Gordon Oliver sings a love song to tuna mornay and Mr Weetbix himself calls to put Jon on notice.

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Episode 14 asks what it means to capture a piece of your life in sound — from cassette tapes to podcasts — as Dave looks back across seven years and traces all seven creative principles through the odyssey of making. In the Sevenwell story world, a moonlit promise, a cassette recording and a girl who decides to become the author of her own story converge in the most emotionally charged epis...

Episode 15 asks whether seven years of scattered sketches, songs and stories can finally cohere — whether the pieces of a puzzle really do make a picture richer than its parts. As the series reaches its finale, two threads strain toward each other: Jon's Weetbix-sponsorship empire, brokered by Gordon Oliver, the Sam Altman of Sevenwell, and Dave's long search to answer the disappearance of Violet...