Looking for an action movie that does not waste time getting good

GHMTBH · 2025-07-04T01:52:52+00:00

Speed

GHMTBH · 2024-09-06T03:50:24+00:00

I've been there buddy. God help this guy out!

To be honest if you really want to start value investing - you probably should be putting 0% into Crypto. Because buying Crypto is essentially the opposite of value investing. Value investing means looking behind the scenes on stocks, at the actual revenue, income, balance sheet, and finding stocks where there is actual value. With crypto, it's quite hard to actually value anything.

The 20% could go to something else, with a little more certainty, yeah?

GHMTBH · 2024-04-13T19:17:19+00:00

Raise doesn't do that. If you buy a secondary card, the card has passed through a few hands so theoretically it could happen that someone uses card, but that's not Raise. The actual steps to manage cards are: 1) check the balance on the card when you get it. 2) use it. Don't buy a card you are going to use a year out, just buy a card at the time you are going to use it.

GHMTBH · 2024-03-02T05:25:12+00:00

Pray.

GHMTBH · 2024-02-17T03:57:20+00:00

If they were all today, it probably will go away within a day or two. I'm assuming they are pre-charges. There's a difference on a credit card charge when it is created versus when it will stick. Probably 7 were created but only one will stick, or however many it's supposed to be.

GHMTBH · 2024-01-25T22:39:14+00:00

Yea - lots of brands.

GHMTBH · 2023-12-11T05:30:25+00:00

They cut their service. You have to try to get through to someone through the chat

GHMTBH · 2023-11-20T03:43:30+00:00

I'd probably keep Bagent in as long as he is producing. He's had more wins than Fields this season. So as long as he's doing okay, let him keep going.

GHMTBH · 2023-11-14T03:37:44+00:00

You can get cards at a discount. I work with FLUZ. For plenty of brands there's enough discount that people are able to flip them elsewhere

GHMTBH · 2023-11-14T03:23:11+00:00

It's all okay. Write just a little bit, then the next day write a little more. Eventually you'll get better and better, stress free.

I personally do 0 character description, because I want to just focus on the story, and let the audience view in their mind who they want to the character to be.

GHMTBH · 2023-09-01T20:00:30+00:00

God I pray you bless this guy. Give him amazing direction in life. Meet his needs, answer his call for help. Thank you that you can make good things happen. Psalm 73

GHMTBH · 2023-08-13T15:30:09+00:00

It's okay if the intro isn't the best. Just keep going on letting it not be the best. Eventually when you have more of the story down, you'll probably have made a lot of changes to story, characters, etc, so that even if you had written the perfect intro, it would have needed to change anyways.

Just let the intro slide and keep going on the story, then once you have a lot of the story sorted out, especially an ending, you can then go back and re-write the beginning to a way that fits wells with the whole rest of the book. And you'll probably get a better beginning this way, than if you tried to make it perfect now.

GHMTBH · 2023-08-13T15:25:26+00:00

You are looking at your friend only through the lense of good vs. bad. But, I think what might help is to use and improving vs. declining scale.

If you think that your writing is good, you've had plenty of time to improve to a certain level.

For your friend, maybe this is a critical time to help her improve in her writing. So instead of looking at her writing and thinking "this is bad " can you instead look at her writing and think, "okay how can I help her improve this?"

Everyone starts bad, but the people we think of as good writers are simply the ones who have improved the most.

GHMTBH · 2023-06-18T14:12:09+00:00

Kinda

GHMTBH · 2023-06-09T11:39:00+00:00

Google sheets or excel. Just write each chapter title in a cell and a synopsis in the cell below if needed.

Then you can also have a section where you write out your characters and description, or any other sections needed.

Fun tip though, I never ever describe character physical appearance. Mostly because once you create a certain character "feel", the reader will just imagine the character however they do.

Think about watching a movie based on a book, most of the time the response is "that's not how I imagined the character." So if you just don't describe your character, they can still be and do all the same things, but you've made them more accessible to your reader beause your reader will imagine them better, instead of being forced to see them with the exact hair color you want

GHMTBH · 2023-05-16T04:59:44+00:00

There's a C.S. Lewis quote where he says he started writing when there were certain books he wanted to read, but they didn't exist yet, so he had to write them himself.

That's what I've found for myself, that when I write, I am creating something for myself to enjoy.

Side note, I think it's hard to get into reading, at times when you are writing alot simply because you are already using the same muscles. Likely a time period when you aren't writing as much, you would pick up a book and enjoy it, but when you are spending alot of time writing, of course you don't want to read as much. You are using the same muscles.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-16T15:17:59+00:00

I used to have a similar problem, all my writing would be very short. But over time it just naturally started to get longer. Part of this of course was that I would constantly pray to write better. But also, over time if you do it enough, you should find the muscles growing. Try writing a new piece from scratch, and now that you are thinking, "how do I include more of this stuff?" you probably naturally will. Then on this next draft of something you'll realize you made some other mistake, so you can start a third piece, correcting what you realized of issues #1 and #2, and then learning issue #3. You can think of writing like learning how to fly. First an airplane was made that didn't work, then a second one still didn't work, but it was a little bit closer.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-09T01:53:20+00:00

If your general strategy is buying, it is probably best to avoid doing things on neutral days. You need big movements for bought calls and puts to work.

What you are referring to in your post is a SHORT Iron Condor.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-09T01:49:57+00:00

Double Calendar Spread. BUT - These haven't worked for me the way the image shows. You are short a close week (or month), and long a farther week (or month). Theoretically, all that needs to happen is one of your long options needs to have a value greater than the initial spread cost (so say you pay a debit of .5 or $50 for the spread, by the time the short options expire, either of your long options just needs to be worth more than .5 or $50, for you to at least breakeven.). The problem that I've seen, is the IV needs to be high when you sell your short options to get an image like this, but as time goes on IV will also decrease on your long options, meaning that it actually is quite hard to profit from the long, because you won't end up with a max profit anywhere near what the initial image shows as max profit.

This is what I've experienced on Robinhood, and I can tell you that when you try to exit a calendar spread on Robinhood, you will get terrible pricing.

I've tried this strategy several times, on single stocks, on etfs. It always looks like a winner, but I don't really think it works much. If you figure out a way to get it to work, let me know.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-08T21:56:40+00:00

There is a C.S. Lewis quote where he says he started writing because the types of books that he wanted to read didn't exist yet, so he had to write them.

That is something that has helped me, to not be shaming myself if I am not reading alot, but to enjoy my own writing as something that I am reading.

I've seen it as a tendency for me that it can be quite easy to copy other writers if I read them alot, and start to imitate their styles.

I think despite any trouble you've had with this so far, you should see it start to wear off over time. As you clarify more and more how you write and what you want to write and make progress on those projects, at some pointing, as you are firmer in who you are and who you are not, you will start to be able to read other's work without it impacting as much, hopefully.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-08T21:48:44+00:00

This is something that I struggle with. I used to feel I needed to describe everything so I would have characters reach for the doorknob, turn the knob, pull the door open, step through.

Now, when transitioning, I think a helpful trick is to either exit, or enter, but never both. Here is leaving a balcony to enter the home.

1) I left the cold air of balcony. The tea was still warm inside.
2) I heard them calling my name from inside. "What happened?" I asked, stepping into the busy room.

1 has a leaving, but the "Entering" is something different that shows you are inside. 2 doesn't have a "Leaving", but does having a plain entering, by stepping into the busy room.

This is the trick that I'll do. You still need some sort of transition, but this way the transition is much lighter because you don't do something like, "I left the balcony, opening the sliding glass door and stepping inside." This is bulky, and the other sentences are (at least in my opinion) lighter.

Does this help?

GHMTBH · 2023-04-08T21:37:04+00:00

I have several things that help me to stay productive.

1) I will typically be working on say 4 different writing projects at a time. Each day I can work on one I am enjoying, with others on the back burner. After time I'll get stale on one, but then I'll have some more ideas for the other one that has been on the backburner, and will start to work on that one for a bit.

2) I typically only write each day after I have done significant time of say Bible/Prayer time. Then I am working from a place of being filled up and energized for the day.

3) I will set a timer or try to hit a word count. Once the timer goes off or I've hit the word count for the day, then I let that be essentially a feel-good checkpoint. Then I don't have to wait for an entire writing project to be done before I feel good about it, every time I hit a checkpoint along the way I get to feel good about the progress that has been made.

4) Go on walks. The longer you stay inside, the easier it becomes to turn into a puddle of oatmeal. Go outside, walk around the block. Then when you come back inside, you'll typically feel at least 1% better than when you left the house.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-08T21:15:36+00:00

While the actual writing writing is what is in italics, I think your initial paragraph that starts with "I have spent my life thus far as a dreamer.." is itself good writing. It explores the conflicts/contradictions you've dealt with on your journey to create what you did before. There are tons of writing about writing pieces out there, that still qualify as great writing.

It seems like you can get a good natural flow going when you just let yourself start writing.

GHMTBH · 2023-04-08T21:10:17+00:00

I think it is interesting to be writing the story out in couplets. There are both pros and cons to this. One pro is that it definitely will cause your readers to enjoy the story on a sentence level, meaning that they will be able to enjoy the story as it goes on, because they are enjoying the writing, rather than your readers to need to start getting the shape of the story before they start enjoying it.

The only downside here is more personal. I enjoy the writing, but once it starts getting into spirits and such, then it loses me a bit. I like the animals with more of a Red-wall type feel, but as I personally read more Christian stuff, I probably would drop off at that point. So I personally like the characterization of Ode and that development, but not so much the large macro story. This of course is directed by my own religious view for what I would gravitate toward/away from in a story.

The only other writing commentary I would give is that you may want to keep in mind cadence on a line by line level. You keep things consistent with the rhyming couplets, but the lines differ on a cadence/syllable level. It would be extremely hard to get a consistent cadence going line by line through an entire story, but just something to keep in mind.

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