Công cụ mới giúp luyện kỹ năng giao tiếp trong thế giới thực! Tạo ra để giúp mọi người chuẩn bị cho các tình huống giao tiếp khó khăn. #KỹNăngGiaoTiếp #ThếGiớiThực #GiaoTiếpHiệuQuả #CommunicationSkills #RealWorld #EffectiveCommunication

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Good News About Bad Reviews

Reviews are for readers, not authors. There’s a reason other authors will tell you not to read your Goodreads or Amazon reviews; the vast majority of those reviews aren’t thoughtful, carefully cons…

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Getting Down to Business

Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news, as they say. The class action lawsuit against Open AI is moving forward. But in the meantime, 82% of herbal remedy books sold on Amazon are…

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Lies, Slogans, and Blasphemous Grift

I recognize my handwriting on the flyleaf of Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. At the top, I had written “Summer 2017” and below a long note on Goya and Napole…

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Anyway…Here’s Wonderwall: How Oasis Reminded Me of the Collective Joy—and Value—of Art

In three days, my sixth novel, GRACE & HENRY’S HOLIDAY MOVIE MARATHON, will be published by Dell. “G&H”—as I’ve taken to calling it because of the long title—is the culmination of two years…

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The Art of Finishing

We spend endless hours talking about how to start a book—how to find the spark, make schedules, and sustain momentum. But almost no one talks about how to finish one. How to let go.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/28/the-art-of-finishing/

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The Art of Finishing

We spend endless hours talking about how to start a book—how to find the spark, make schedules, and sustain momentum. But almost no one talks about how to finish one. How to let go. My problem this…

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Confessions of a Neurodiverse Writer: Encouragement and a Spoonful of Hope

This post may appear to have little to do with the craft or business of writing, but the lived experience of what I suspect to be a great many of us creative types deserves attention, too. Kelsey A…

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#SNAP #RealWorld

My friend the musician and artist Nancy-Lee Mauger:

The average SNAP benefit is $6/day. People are already not surviving WITH their government "handout."

When I became disabled due to my significant mental health crisis in 2010, I needed to turn to Social Security. I hadn't paid as much into the system as I was mostly a part-time musician and a full-time mom. I received less than $500/month to live on in 2010 from SSDI.

Today, 15 yrs later, I am still navigating living with a complex mental health issue, I am a lot older, and my SSDI is less than $800/month. I'm not sure how many of you out there have tried to live on a $6/day food budget for the month. In today's grocery stores, this would exclude buying fresh fruits and veggies and eggs and meat/fish every week if you want them to last the month. You have to be very creative to make that $6 stretch.

So, I'm one of those lazy government handout folks everyone is talking about. I sit around eating the shrimp and lobster I buy with my food stamps. 🙄 I've been living a great life here in my 400 Sq. Ft. studio apartment in public housing in one of the richest cities in Massachusetts. The carpet on my floor is at least 25 yrs old.

All 3 windows have ice on the inside in the winter. And the heat works occasionally.
(I am incredibly grateful for this roof over my head. Yes, I wish it were different.)

I am one of the most fortunate poor people in this country. I won't go hungry without my SNAP benefits. I have a huge support system. And I have a big belly so I have a reserve... but, seriously.

What about my neighbors?
What about the single moms with all the little kids?
What about the elderly?
FUCK the trash running this country.
Right, Left. They are all not doing their job if we are here right now.

The lunatic-in-chief has destroyed so much and now people will be hungry while he spends billions of dollars he isn't allowed to spend.
Who will stop him?

Have You Heard of This Lawsuit? You May Benefit

One of the most urgent issues confronting writers and other creators right now is the use of copyrighted material for generative AI training.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/10/24/have-you-heard-of-this-lawsuit-you-may-benefit/

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