Real World used to have a subscription music club, a CD a month. Some great releases, among others I first heard Dub Colossus, 9Bach, and these guys, Juju, on their releases. Juldeh Camara and Justin Adams. Great players, infectious stuff. They were part of Robert Plant’s band a few years ago. #juju #music #RealWorld
watch the other cards here: pod.geraspora.de/tags/exitstra… <- Thanks for watching 😀
#meme #apocalypse #doomsday #collapse #civilization #future #gameover #exitstrategy #problem #endtime #system #matrix #explanation #politics #resources #society #technology #brain #humanity #computer #digital #simulation #reality #vr #realworld #rl #virtualreality #survival
Beach Glass Writers Residency
Your book doesn’t need more time on the back burner. It needs a week.
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Each residency week includes:
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https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/23/beach-glass-writers-residency/
What to Do When Someone Writes ‘Your’ Book
A few years ago, I was struggling to write a story. I had an incoherent outline and a few sample chapters and just couldn’t pull it together. Desperate, I texted my dear friend Jan O’Hara, who agreed to take a look. We batted ideas around for a bit, and I went back to work feeling much better.
Some months later, I mentioned the story—now much further along—to Jan, who sent me a panicked note back saying that she was also now working on a story and it had an unmistakable resemblance to mine. Scrupulously ethical, she offered to abandon hers if I thought it was too similar and sent a summary for me to read.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/22/what-to-do-when-someone-writes-your-book/
#REALWORLD #BigMagic #dopplegangerbook #ElizabethGilbert #JanOHara
Flog a Pro: Would You Turn the First Page of this Bestseller?
Email readers, heads up! For the full effect, pause after the excerpt and decide: Would you turn the page? Vote and then scroll for the reveal!
Trained by reading hundreds of submissions, editors and agents often make their read/not-read decision on the first page . In a customarily formatted book manuscript with chapters starting about 1/3 of the way down the page (double-spaced, 1-inch margins, 12-point type), there are 16 or 17 lines on the first page.
Here’s the question:
Would you pay good money to read the rest of the chapter? With 50 chapters in a book that costs $15, each chapter would be “worth” 30 cents.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/21/flog-a-pro-would-you-turn-the-first-page-of-this-bestseller-50/
The Weird Editing Habit I Can’t Write Without
I’ve always had a strange editing habit: I read almost everything I write out loud.
Emails. Ads. Chapters in my novel. Billboards and banner ads no one will ever actually hear spoken. I read them all out loud. I do this because the rhythm of my writing matters to me—and because I can hear when something isn’t working faster than I can see it.
The first time someone pointed out this strange habit, I was sitting in my cubicle at the advertising agency where I worked. I was deep into hour two of trying to get a paragraph of body copy exactly right. Every time I made a change—even something as small as changing a comma into an em-dash (my favorite!)—I would read the paragraph out loud again to hear the difference in the rhythm.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/20/the-weird-editing-habit-i-cant-write-without/
A Plot Twist with a Twist
Serendipity once again gave me my topic for this month. For my birthday this year, Ruth managed to find a piece of sheet music I’d been hunting for a while – an organ arrangement of Handel’s “The Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.” The piece is not terribly hard and eleven different kinds of fun to play.
It also reminded me of a delightful plot twist I read some years ago in Jane Langton’s Divine Inspiration (1993). Divine Inspiration is a good mystery and I’d recommend it, even though the denouement involves some technology that eighteen-year-olds would probably have to Google. But the mystery really endears itself to organists because it’s about one of our own. (If you would like to read it, be warned: spoilers ahead.)…
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/19/a-plot-twist-with-a-twist/
Where Are You, Muse?
4 Guides to a Sustainable Writing Life
In the publishing industry, “what will sell” is always a moving target. To adapt is to survive, for both creators and those who sell their works. Add today’s rapid socio-political shifts and it’s hard for a business to create a strategic plan that will still work next week let alone in the year(s) it will take to write and publish a novel.
https://writerunboxed.com/2026/05/14/4-guides-to-a-sustainable-writing-life/
#Inspirations #REALWORLD #Writinglife #DonMiguelRuiz #emotionalmanagement
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