Sentences with phrase «painful stories like»

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I sighed when I read this, as stories like these are still painful for me to hear (even though I know plenty of them).

I am hoping for a less painful one next time around and your story makes me feel like this is all possible.

In what seems like it should be the next installment of American Horror Story: Couple's Therapy, these dudes willingly allow their significant other's to perform the painful hair removal process we as woman all know and loathe.

I really like the varied posts on Man Repeller in general, and these NYC Short stories made my wanderlust a little less painful.

I've seen a few comments joking about it looking like a mobile game since this week's story trailer reveal, and though that's dumb internet hyperbole there's a painful kernel of truth in it right now.

Kids may like the animation, but the story does a painful faceplant.

As a story, it's an interesting idea, but very poorly conceived characters and situations galore take the legs out from under the screenplay and the film flops around like a fish on dry land, gasping desperately for life before ultimately dying a painful and pathetic death about a half hour before the film's too - long - in - coming ending.

And then I remembered, I had an agent, a great agent, I wrote great books (so all the rejecting editors told me) and yes, you are right, self pub has given my stories a voice and an ear and the chance to be read, when they otherwise would have still been gathering dust on my hard drive, yet, on the other hand this is hard, REALLY HARD, it is SO hard to find your way to a readership as a SP, with limited funds (dwindling)... and the glimmer of trad pub — with their power to splash your name around established circles of readers, and their ability to secure a great number of reviews where, as a self pub, doors have been slammed in my face — becomes temptingly shiny again, (it's like childbirth, you forget all the painful stuff with time)... and it all gets very tempting... almost tempting enough to consider sacrificing one work JUST one artistic premise for the trade off of visibility... and then perhaps, just perhaps THEN, my SP efforts will finally sprout wings... but then I hear you and other say, it wasn't worth it, you'd never do it again, and I sigh... And then I wake up the next morning and think of packing it all in, and going to work for Walmart and steady shitty pay... lol And then along comes this blog post.

The story - based campaign, which feels so much like the tabletop games my friends and I enjoy on the weekend, is especially painful not being able to share.

For me, it's definitely the latter, and that's because I like when games tell stories, when my soldiers» actions weave lovely — or painful — narratives that I can then recount and laugh, or cry.

With life - like characters and a truly painful story, the main theme the team wants to showcase is «Bonds» and how the characters relate to it.