There is something gratifying in writing the script, in finding a story that's important enough that you want to put yourself through that ordeal.
I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams.
I am opening myself up to writing about these procedures because they have been gratifying for me.
"The process of making sense of one's experience," he wrote, "is gratifying.
It is "a mini-series about a band of professional pillagers with a disregard for human life and a relentless focus on gratifying material desires," he wrote.
Then a black writer I admire, and have developed a surprisingly gratifying Facebook friendship with, wrote to say that she had seen a photograph I'd posted of Baldwin's house and was coming over from London to get a better look.
Cameron was duly gratified: "My aspirations," she wrote to her mentor, the scientist Sir John Herschel, "are to ennoble photography and to secure it for the character and uses of high art".
In her exchange with Storyboard, Pamela Colloff, the article's author, admits that she was afraid people were not going to read the (very, very) long piece, and she was surprised, gratified even, that readers wrote angry letters in protest when she ended the first installment with a huge cliffhanger.
"The flashes of Flannery O'Connor-like toughness are gratifying to the core," Joe David Bellamy wrote here.
But he counts as most personally gratifying the original song he wrote and sang last fall at the Harvard protest in support of black student activists at Yale and the University of Missouri, Columbia.
