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START_SPONSOR_TOKEN and when you're writing your own stories don't fall for the trap of keeping all of your thoughts in a messy document without any kind of organization i've made that mistake before and trust me it's a right pain let's look at the word count of my unorganized notes for a novel series i've been planning and it's jesus painful to look through and downright impossible to reference when i need to find the specific notes i'm looking for if you've been having these issues like me where your story notes are a total mess then campfire is perfect for you the sponsor of today's video because it's an organization tool made specifically for writers it's a great way to refine your garbled unstructured story notes into neat easy to reference documents where you can create detailed character bios lay out your magic systems organize the lore for your entire world plan your character arcs and organize more or less everything you might need to tell a great story they've even got an inbuilt manuscript editor so you can keep all of your notes and write your stories in the same workspace like really it's the ultimate package for you storytellers out there and even better you can use it right now for free yeah seriously you don't need to put in a credit card or anything if you click my link in the description you can start using campfire and see if you like how it feels with no pressure and then if you want to unlock the full experience you can use my discount code closer look NUMBER_TOKEN to get NUMBER_TOKEN off the lifetime purchase of any of campfire's many extra features really campfire is a fantastic place to organize all of your story plans and world building like i am both END_SPONSOR_TOKEN