I work in insurance and every time I’m like that will be 500 dollars excess, it’s how it’s spoken no dollars 500. It’s just a pet peeve the English language is trifle sometimes. Even when you read it it’s the other way around. Go ahead do it.
I just realised that we write % like that, for example 40.8%
Why
He was afraid of Capitalism.
I have kind of had enough with her at this point, everyone else is growing and evolving whereas Coop is still stuck making poor decisions. She just can't seem to not sabotage her life. I mean her kind isn't rare there are a lot of people in this world that are just naturally self-sabotaging, maybe she has some deep-seated issues that force her to keep making her life harder, maybe she doesn't feel like she deserves better. I might be reading into it but I think it might be drama with her parents not accepting her and the guilt that she might have with that or the passing of Shawn, remember Shawn was forced into the gang life from a young age, and just when he finally got out he got shot. Coop might have survivor's guilt from the Shawn situation. However, after some point it's hard to really feel for her she could have walked away and not gotten involved with Tyronne when Shawn died and rose above it would have saved Spencer from getting shot. But I get why she felt like she had to get revenge, I will say Preach is at a fault to considering he could have gotten Tyronne locked up for good but because he is so REAL! he had to lie to the jury. Even when Coop came out to confront Moe, Preach told her to wait till he gets there. However, she wouldn't listen. In my eyes, Precious should stay broken up with her for good for her own sanity.
I think with the music drama while Layla was a bit too far with the music shit stealing Coop's work. Her anger is justified, Coop wasn't upfront with her about her lungs. Layla had to find out from Asher so obviously she was pissed. This is a business and an artist has to be mindful of that. Layla is a newcomer and she put a lot of faith in her so she has every right to be angry.
I feel the only reason they don't really evolve Coop is to keep some shit uneasy so the show can have a nice flow to it. If everyone was souring it wouldn't be entertaining is what I feel. I think the only hope for Coop is if she finally wakes up and starts to take control. I think what will happen is she'll come back to music and do it Nipsey style without the label slowly build from the ground up.
Holy shit I just realized Shawn, Spencer, and Coop all got shot. 2 were lucky 1 not so much.
There’s more prose than cons.
I can’t begin to imagine exposing my raw nerves, the open wounds, when the salt shaker is near Instead, crush me into the cliffs until my tell tale signs are but sediments. Maybe in a thousand years, geologist will realize what love looks like, between the filaments of glass and rock and heather, holding our stories hostage in vials on a girl’s desk in Poughkeepsie What does she see in the flecks of sand and granite that you didn’t? Why does she keep us as a keepsake, but you didn’t?
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(I write when I’m sad. Or when I’m happy. I also tend to not write when I’m in too deep. This is me trying to focus some of this nervous energy into something of (mild) substance.) bad poetry is fun
God I hate it. Trying to make music with my brother who plays guitar. He comes up with a pretty sweet sounding chord progression in E major. My usual go-to for improvisation is E minor so I thought it shouldn't be too hard, but nope I can't seem to come up with anything that doesn't sound like the intro to to fucking Barney or some shit.
EDIT: so after reading most of the comments here, i'll first clear some things up
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I'm not playing the guitar. My brother is. I'm trying to produce the rest of the track and write a top melody on keys. (He doesn't like this and would rather have a singer, but also wants the instant gratification of a cool track now)
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My brother doesn't know any music theory, just has chords and songs memorized and normally only plays covers. He's most likely playing chords he knows from other songs and just changing them to be something new.
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He doesn't seem to know the difference between major and minor. Just thinks transposing the chord progression down makes it minor.
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He won't record a new progression. He's stubborn and refuses to do anything I ask him because he wants the guitar part to be 100% written by him and also have total creative control over the rest of the song, and says things like "no synths I don't want that techno bullshit" "no I want live drums" well guess what buddy, neither of us can play drums. Because of his limited knowledge of theory, he has to start the song and I have to write over it. He seriously doesn't know how to match a key and write over it. He only knows how to modify things he knows how to cover.
I'm just basically trying to do something with him. I mean fuck, we both play music and I want to work with him on something but he's just difficult. The chord progression he recorded for me is two chords and there's barely any room to work around it. I've come to realize it's not me, but rather his chord progression. Yes, I still have some issue with writing less corny major key melodies but fiddling with the progression and referencing other songs usually helps for me. Trying to do it with this chord progression he gave me is just giving me a headache.
I’ve posts like these on the sub and wanted to do something a little different. Try to avoid OP abilities, especially manipulation of any kind. I’ll start these on my break and when I get out of work.
Peace
I wrote this, does that count?
I have been so fully indoctrinated into capitalist propaganda, that even my intoxicated moments (at home) are professionally advantengeous. This includes this post btw. Is this good or just autism?
I used to absolute love writing. I would always tell people I was going to get a book published someday. As a child/preteen I used to write all of the time. I know that sounds like it would just be some "Captain Underpants" nonsense writing but I would hear from adults and my teachers who I shared my writing with that I had a very bright future in literature. Here I am now, though, 19 years old, and I've abandoned my first true attempt at writing a novel (a "Penny Western" novela) because I got about 20 pages into it and I realized it was a novelized cliche of every single western trope or literary trope known to man. I hate it and I don't want to even try to revise it.
What happened to me? I used to be able to write for hours on end and now I feel my imagination is just dead.
Not upset just seriously curious as it happens a lot.
Background: I just started school a couple weeks ago, so I might be freaking out about nothing. I might also be an idiot. Honestly not sure anymore.
So like the title says, I honestly just can not figure out how to write in a "lawyerly" fashion. I know about IRAC, I've read more guides about it at this point than I ever thought possible, but for some reason I just can't seem to put it into practice. I've read other people's essays and past bar exam answers and can see and understand how they're following the process, but as soon as I'm the one doing the writing it's just a total trash fire.
Even simple things like case briefs. Literally everyone talks about how it's the easiest thing ever and any dumb shit can bang one out in 5 minutes. Meanwhile here's me, struggling mightily and still not producing anything acceptable. I'll read along fine and get the overall gist of a case, but then I end up blurring the analysis and rule, writing bad rule statements, writing issue statements that are too broad or too narrow, just awful. I can't extract the right rule, can't write the correct issue, literally can't do anything right.
I managed 6 years of university education and managed life support machines prior to this. So I'm of at least a moderate level of intelligence. I swear to god I've never felt more stupid and defeated than these past couple weeks though.
So be real with me, is this just "normal" and something people eventually find a way to get past, or am I just legit fucked?
I get melodies and chords easily. I can arrange a song end to end but I just cannot come up with lyrics. Nothing at all. Might be because I have spent almost all of my life inside my room making music or studying. How do I get better at writing lyrics? How do I write about the relationship I have never had or the breakup I have never experienced?
Because they hate capitalism.
And hand it in tomorrow
Hello,
With a few notable exceptions, James Bond is totally unconcerned by any material / practical / sentimental contingencies, and thus, his character arc is desperately flat. He has a main goal that he know from the beginning he will achieve, and a secondary, more bed-themed goal that he's also certain to achieve. He learns nothing, and he doesn't change. Yet we like those movies (at least, the good ones). And I'm trying to figure out why we do.... does anyone have an idea?
I'm asking this in relation with a script project I've had for some time now. Basically it's a James Bond plot, with a macguffin, a villain, hot pursuits, a final hot battle, mean villain sidekicks etc, but it's a comedy/action movie. The main character is fundamentally different - actually, they are four, not one. Four girls, whose official cover is a girls band, Britain's new pop-rock sensation, and they are meant to use their fame to approach the powerful of this world. Unlike James Bond, they are totally concerned by material / practical / sentimental contingencies. Unlike JB, they have big weaknesses that are used for comical effect (one is dyslexic and obsessed with healthy living, one is an occasional coward, one is torn between her catholic faith and her devotion to her missions, etc).
Now the question I'm asking myself is, should I, as in James Bond movies, keep the main character arcs flat as there is already a lot going on, or wouldn't it work in my case and then maybe I should add a sub-plot about the relationships between the four?
I'm still in the outlining process - the four main characters are pretty well defined and consistent, but the rest is still quite open.
The rough outline of the action is :
- Act 1: they follow a false lead and at the end of it, a second mission appears,
- Act 2: they separate in 2 groups, each one pursuing one mission and at the end of it, one group gets caught and locked up by the villain, while the other group achieves the secondary mission.
- Act 3: the other group runs to the help of the 1st group, frees them and all together they defeat the villain.
I have the feeling that there is already a lot going on and adding internal conflict between my main characters might be too much. Would love to have some opinions on this.
He was afraid of capitalism.
