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Piggybacking: How To Turn One Creative Thing Into Five

(Without Melting Your Brain)

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Jan 30, 2026
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A popular product (and my favorite hat to date), created through piggybacking.

You and I both know the problem isn’t ideas.

If you’re anything like me, you’ve probably got too many of those.
The problem is time.

Energy.

The reality that life is already piled high with family, work, health, and whatever else decided to burst into flames this week.

So you sit down, you write a chapter, or record a podcast, or sketch something cool…and then you hit publish, walk away, and that’s it.

One result from all that work.

That’s a terrible return on your effort.

I want to show you how I fix that—with a system I use inside Chronicles of a Hero and Life of Fiction that I call piggybacking.

It’s simple. It’s repeatable. And it lets you turn one act of creation into four, five, even six separate finished things…without sacrificing your sanity.

What I mean by “piggybacking”

Here’s the definition I’m working from:

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