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https://www.amazon.com/Settle-More-Megyn-Kelly/dp/0062494600

edit: cucked amazon is removing reviews as we speak

edit 2: the prologue is all about how she stood up to the bully, Trump, at the debates....... she was banking on his loss

This is common practice on every movie. If you're interested or fascinated by the business and work behind being a working screenwriter, check out Thomas Lennon and Ben Garant's book "Writing Movies for ~~Fun and~~ Profit"

It's an honest and humorous guidebook to being a working writer in Hollywood. Basically gets right into how when you sell a script, it doesn't mean your name will be on it when the movie is released because you will be fired from the writing job, then they'll bring in someone else to give it a fresh take, then they'll fire them hire someone else, then they'll fire them and MAYBE re-hire you, then you'll look at how they butchered your script and you'll go back and make changes to all the things they did so the arbitrator will give you the credit and not them when it's released and then hope you don't get fired again and then you can reap your rewards.

Basically, this is how M. Night Shamaylan came up with "The Sixth Sense". A common Hollywood rumor truth is that he didn't come up with the idea, he was just the last guy to get his hands on the script after a dozen rewrites so he got all the credit for the idea.

Writing Movies for Fun and Profit: How We Made a Billion Dollars at the Box Office and You Can, Too!

See EL MARIACHI made for 7000 and read the book https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmaker/dp/0452271878 Robert Rodriguez continues to make movies his way.

If people are interested in how severe a lot of these laws are, The Year Of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs is really interesting, very approachable, and fairly humorous.

Oh no dont worry about my backup, Im a Financial Economics Major with a minor in Information Systems also im in the states so I can hop into the banking sector whenever.

This quote comes to mind when we are talking about this. " We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. "- John Keating.

Also highly reccomend watching Desparado and reading Rebel Without a Crew

Robert Rodriguez's book Rebel Without a Crew has some good info on indie filmmaking in it.

You can find it on Amazon.

Link to her book on Amazon book page?

Book name?

EDIT: I guess this is her book (came out today):

Settle for More

Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life ... - Amazon UK

a load of james jamerrson tunes notated with explinations, shows how jj knowledge of jaz informed how he made often simple chord sequences interesting with his voicing. get functional ear trainer on your phone so you can learn by ear. Be aware that it is timing where most tabs are wrong. My way to learn a line is listen, sing, wok out the key of song, learn notes, get timing then go back to listening to find out what I got wrong

Practicing scales and fingerings is a good way to train your ear. You'll start to hear chordal movement and resolutions that make sense. You should look into getting a jazz methods book, they typically have good exercises and warmups. Also, writing the music down, transcribing, is a really good way to train your ear. One of my favorite books is [http://www.amazon.com/Standing-Shadows-Motown-Legendary-Jamerson/dp/0881888826/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&qid=1433258160&sr=8-9&keywords=standing+in+the+shadows]. Listening to some bass lines on early Aretha Franklin albums, motown, and Wilson Pickett will get you in the groove in no time!

I am proud of you, too. Thank you for your comment. I see you, and I recognize you.

We are not alone (unfortunately). Researchers have apparently caught sight of us. Due to the stigma around it, survivors of MDSA (Mother-Daughter sexual abuse) are using Reddit to share their stories. And the actress Jennette McCurdy (who I had never heard of before) recently published her memoir about her experience with MDSA. I haven't been able to read the book, but I'm glad someone with her sort of visibility is telling our story. She is incredibly brave.

I was also diagnosed with CPTSD. At its most extreme, I couldn't leave the house or sleep. But time helps the most. The nightmares were terrible, but they are less frequent now. I promise it gets better. Something that helped with the sexual stimulation was watching the Tantric Sex episode of the series Unwell (it's on Netflix). A tantric sex guru talks about healing from sexual abuse, and it was the first time I felt some acceptance for that aspect of my experience. The feelings come and go. There was a time I thought that they were gone completely, but I suspect they will always be with me to some degree. And in that case, all that is required of me (and perhaps of you, too) is acceptance.

The rage is still with me. What has helped there is 1) not drinking and 2) strength training. Also, remembering times when I had control (when I frightened my mother with my insight, for example) and replaying/strengthening those memories has helped with the feeling of helplessness (the foundation of the rage, I think).

I hope something that I mentioned ^ above helps. We are warriors. A strange kind of family. Whatever healing looks like for you, I wish you the best of luck.

I would heartily recommend Jenette McCurdy's memoir I'm Glad My Mom Died. I grew up in a country where The Disney Channel wasn't really a thing, but having moved to N America realize how prolific a role it played in a lot of kid's lives so was interested to read it. It's a horrendous but deeply engaging about being a child actor on Disney shows. I thoroughly recommend it.

Relevant: I'm Glad My Mom Died.

Have you read The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs? https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484

He does just that including trying to follow the obscure rules.

I’m glad my mom died- Jenette McCurdy

“Standing In The Shadows of Motown: The Life And Music Of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson” is a great start and arguably an essential book for any bass player. James Jamerson is one of the most influential and important bass players of all time and the book has transcriptions of many classic Motown Records songs he played on.

I haven't read it yet but a friend recommended this book to me.

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484

It sounds like that book should answer your question exactly.

You may be interested in a more in-depth look at this hypocrisy:

https://www.amazon.com/Year-Living-Biblically-Literally-Possible/dp/0743291484

Perhaps you should reread the last paragraph of your own orignal post. Entomology is fascinating, but at the end of the day, it's not that complicated. The word Allah predates Islam, so that's a big clue in itself. It's the same God.

You can use whatever translation you want for the teachings of the Christ, the message stays the same and all goes back to the influence of Saul/Paul and then St. Jerome. Worse, it all goes back to the editorial influences of Constantine and King James.

Of course the religions are different. That's why we've had the unending holy wars. It's still the same God, same holy book (and those ten commandments , just ask Charlie Hebdo) of the Hebrew Bible, with the Christian Bible and the Quran tacked on for interesting flavor and everyone fighting over who is right.

We're three siblings fighting over who loves Daddy most, best and what he REALLY meant. Only humans are capable of something so mind numbingly stupid.

I love Reza Aslan as a speaker and writer on the subjects, he's incredibly interesting. You should give him a look. For lighter reading that's insightful and thought provoking, but will still make you laugh, I recommend this.

10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062265423/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_GYX0WK0FKZGGAG8VJ8WR

A lot of people look to GTD to reduce stress. I think this helps attack the underlying problem.

I think 99% percent of how-to writing books bog down the reader with so much extraneous information, ideas, rules, systems, 'this is the way' thinking and so on, as to almost be discouraging. My favorite writing book is actually a screenwriting book but the general rules apply, in my opinion, and it's a fun read that distills a project to its basic process.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Movies-Fun-Profit-Billion/dp/1439186766

The strength of this book is it keeps things simple. It avoids philosophy dives and meandering examples. It lays out the structure of a screenplay which is the same as most best selling novels. This may not be what you're looking for but I found it helped me break my project into parts making it easier to tackle.

It also emphasizes the most important lesson: a book won't sit at your keyboard and write for you. That's the most difficult aspect of the process.

I'm going to summarize one part of the book I like: the authors method is to write their screenplay as a 20 to 30 page story. From there they 'fill in the details' and flesh out the story. As simple as it sounds this was a game changer for me and my writing.

The book that changed my entire perspective on this issue was The Year of Living Biblically, in which the author defines every rule or law in the Bible and attempts to live by them.

He makes many interesting observations on the futility of living your life by everything the Bible says. He also points out how hypocritical it is for religions to call out the breaking of certain rules/laws as sins when they are only mentioned just a few times, while others are mentioned dozens or hundreds of times and nobody cares when they are broken.

It is by jewish law. Maybe it is not your jewish law and not mine, but it is their jewish law. This "you don't need tahara since there is no temple for 2000 years" is some reform stuff. Which is ok by me, but not by all. (Sorry most sources I know are not in english.)
Also there are many laws besides taking mikva for women and their husbands for nidda. e.g. not eating after the wife, not passing objects directly etc.

Rebel Without A Crew is a good read by Robert Rodriguez .... came from very little and filmed for peanuts ....

https://www.amazon.com/Rebel-without-Crew-23-Year-Old-Filmmaker/dp/0452271878

Plug an interesting book that I read called The Year of Living Biblically by A.J. Jacobs where he tries to live literally by the bible. It's pretty entertaining.

This one is more focused on screen writing for film, but I feel like it’s chapters on structure are extremely useful. “Writing Movies for Fun and Profit” by Tom Lennon and Ben Garant.

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Movies-Fun-Profit-Billion/dp/1439186766/ref=nodl_

I thought so! This is what I get for reading a screenwriting book by Thomas Lennon, haha!

https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Movies-Fun-Profit-Billion/dp/1439186766

While the way I work is that I do the parts requiring talent, and my partner does the “give me the gun” scenes, there actually is a good method in this book

writing movies for fun and profit

Basically, just alternate, and if your partner takes something out that you love, put it back in. If your partner takes it out twice, sulk for a while, and then move on like the adult you are.

This thread is going to get sloppy with opinions... I recommend everybody put down the laptop and go pick up one of these two books...

https://www.amazon.com/Miles-Autobiography-Davis/dp/0671725823

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues_People

Oof, yeah, the baby is going to make life unpredictable. Maybe look into a B vitamin complex or some non-caffeine energy drinks, try to make those naps more effective by not being strung out on caffeine.

Or "caffeine naps," where you slam a drink of your choice then immediately nap for half an hour, might work for you too.

My writing partner and I have known each other for nearly 15 years, family friends through his younger brother who prefers being a lighting/sound tech for live theater. There were some growing pains, arguments over earlier work, but we've hit a nice stride where we can work relatively fast and not really have an ego about things; it's all about the quality of the final product.

This book was a big benefit to us, we follow their strategy: split the story up, write it, and constantly iterate over each other's work.