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Every summer, I like to treat the family to a little vacation using the funds I've made from book royalties, and I don't mean to brag, but this year we only have to sneak one of the kids into the matinee.

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Good.

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“Willpower is not just a skill. It’s a muscle, like the muscles in your arms or legs, and it gets tired when you use it.” - Roy Baumeister

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Everyone gets a trophy. :)

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One day, I will publish my last book, and probably won't even know it. It better not be a bestseller.

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The beatings will continue until revisions decrease.

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I could be 104 on my death bed see something like this on my quantum phone and still be angry no one ran it through GrammarlyAI+ before sending.

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I’m doing everything except work on my book.

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No one is more surprised that I still pay for Pandora than me.

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Oh, I see we’re back in the pattern of “Trump and his cronies are doing horrible things guess I’ll go to work and make PowerPoints.”

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Better titles for The Accountant 2. Go.

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The biggest problem I have with designing my author website is that I don't visit author websites. And honestly, I can't imagine why I would. Is that weird?

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Every few days, I second-guess quitting Instagram. And every few days:

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I'm currently obsessed with building Duplo marble runs, and I'm sure my children enjoy it too.

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Let's just pretend this "going wide" business never happened.

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Just snapped at my son because he interrupted while I was trying to work on a slide. PowerPoint destroys families.

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Slowly starting to see the value in Notion but having a hard time coming to peace with not having any local data.

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In retrospect, Kohl’s was pretty smart to start selling clothes at their Amazon return centers.

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The year is 2029, and OpenAI is introducing its latest ChatGPT model:

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Reading news and social media feels like getting copied on emails meant for members of congress, judges, and the police. Thanks for including me, but I'm not sure what you want me to do here. I already made a special wish at 12:34; I'm not sure how much more I can do.

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"Hi, I'd like to be verified on Bluesky!" "Sure thing! How are you notable?" "Okay, I'll show myself out."

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Tonight I was held hostage by a three year old who told me she would cry if I left her alone. And even after clearly explaining that I do not negotiate with terrorists, I was forced to sit in a chair for an hour in the dark until my captor finally fell asleep. The Hague will hear of this.

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These webinars all start the same way. “Hi, I am a best selling multi genre author that you’ve never heard of and with my patented system of AI and fivvr I’m gonna show you how to turn your audiobooks into pure 100k dollars cash.”

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“who played Norm on ‘Cheers’” is the least necessary relative clause of 2025, maybe the century.

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My mom still listens to the radio in her car. Oldies and such. That's how I was able to hear the most horrific dystopian "official government message" in my life. I couldn't believe it was real. The absolute most evil people are running the country right now. www.dhs.gov/news/2025/04...

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FYI: some domain name registrars that will remain namesiloless won't take any action on DMCA complaints, and will just tell you to take it up with the web host.

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The irony of putting a copyright line at the bottom of your garbage website that hosts pirated books.

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Them: "Are you generally an optimist?" Me: "Well, sometimes I email Amazon KDP support, so..."

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I’m okay with this.

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I released a new novella today, which is about 17 years after I finished writing it. Post-apocalyptic dimension hopping adventure. Pitch Black meets Firefly. You can get it on Amazon or for free by signing up on my website because marketing. danielverastiqui.com/amazon/barte... #NewRelease #SciFi

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99% of the time, I don't regret closing my Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, Creedthoughts.gov accounts. The other 1% of the time, I've just published a new blog post and want to tell people about it. Guess I'll just text my mom.

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I was originally going to call this piece "Corporate Mandatory Fun Events Are Surprisingly Enjoyable When You Actually Want To Hang Out With Your Coworkers," but that seemed a bit long for SEO and rather petty. Instead, enjoy my humiliation.

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One day, someone will end their social media post with “read that again” for the last time in human history. Sadly, I don’t think I will live long enough to see it.

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Oh. Oh, okay.

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You paid HOW MUCH for a coconut?!

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Wrote a novella about a future where human DNA has averaged out into a bland sameness until a girl with blond hair is discovered, and now I'm in the weeds with the correct usage of "blond" vs "blonde" and nothing makes sense anymore.

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Psst used books don't have tariffs 📚

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All those rumors you heard of me attempting to "go wide" only to discover it's horrible out there what with the janky websites and higher costs are not rumors. The grass may be greener on the other side, but it costs twice as much and won't arrive for a week.

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I really want to "go wide" with my books. I want to be like the cool kids who can give the finger to Amazon and find success out there in the trenches of Barnes & Noble and indie bookstores. But it's a lot of hard work. And I'm lazy. So what's an author to do? danielverastiqui.com/ethics-vs-ex...

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