Double Time Swing

Cosmo is in trouble. He didn’t break anyone’s skin and was only playing, but anyway, my cat bit someone. That someone went to the doctor and the doctor reported this boy to animal control. Cosmo is an indoor only cat and is a year or so behind on shots. They are holding him in quarantine for 10 days to be sure he doesn’t have rabies and charging me $100 for boarding, not to mention the shots he’s going to be required to get before they release him to me.

If anyone has anything to spare, I also just moved and had to pay first months rent at the new place, last months at the old place, and a deposit. So this is really a hard time for me to be able to find spare funds for this. This little guy has been with me since I was 16 and I’m literally shaking and non-functioning today, because I’m scared they’re going to take him away if I can come up with the money in time.

My cashapp is: $indy330

Black Swan and Whiplash use similar story elements in different ways to shape their stories. In doing so, they each express their own variation on the theme of sacrificing for your art. Black Swan tells the story of a young woman who sacrifices everything to achieve one, fleeting moment of absolute perfection - suggesting absolute perfection requires absolute sacrifice. Whiplash tells the story of a young man who endures intense physical and emotional abuse by a mentor, but manages to grow from the experience, and in the end becomes the next Charlie Parker […] which raises the question, do the ends justify the means? — Lessons from the Screenplay

When someone is really freaking mad at me for inducing an emotional response from them

when readers give me a background of how/when they read my writing

when readers give me a background of why they shouldn’t have been reading my writing (usually while at work)

when readers quote my work back to me in comments

Andrew: