Sentences with phrase «as fiction writers»

It seems to radiate through every word I hear from writers lost in the myths of starting up as fiction writers.

As fiction writers, our goal is to find readers for our book or series.

So I can watch them weild mathematics just as a fiction writer weilds a pen?

Your job as a fiction writer is to focus on your characters, and to ignore — to the extent you can — the rest of the bullshit...

But can Conlon deliver as a fiction writer?

It was at a time in Hawkins» life that she says she was «very bad at following things through» and didn't have a lot of confidence in herself as a fiction writer.

I am beginning to allow myself to think of myself as a fiction writer.

You can learn more about Alan's journey as a fiction writer on his blog: FictiveUniverse.com.

I'm sure I'll get told by readers if they do or don't like them in good time — in fact that's probably the best way to find out what works and what doesn't and will help me grow as a fiction writer

I point her out as a fiction writer who I think does it right and has a very loyal fan following.

So as part of my series here at the end of 2012, looking back and looking forward, I thought I would do an article on the good stuff and the bad stuff you face in getting to a solid career as a fiction writer.

As a fiction writer I imagine myself to be a plodding farmer of sorts, enjoying the feel of the dirt, kicking stones out of my fields, chasing chickens off the new seed, furrowing row after row after row out of rich clean loam.

As Kristen and I discussed recently, it's not easy building a platform as a fiction writer.

Now, as a fiction writer, I'm not not surprised that Blume wants a larger share of the market to open up; that means more potential royalties.

You're also breaking down preconceptions and biases, and showing data that proves the whole story is yet to be told on how to make a living, become successful, or simply earn a few extra bucks and / or reach readers as a fiction writer.

Anyone starting out as a fiction writer should read it.

As a fiction writer, you have introduced numerous characters in your novel.

So often, these posts are punditry making spurious claims and connecting disparate dots of information to «prove» that self - publishing is still somehow a terrible money - making idea and traditional publishing is the only way to make a living as a fiction writer.

The gatekeepers — agents who submit to editors who acquire books to publish and distribute to booksellers — are no longer needed to make a living as a fiction writer.

I still don't see myself as a fiction writer but it's fun to «have a go» and I do love flash fiction!

«As a fiction writer, I don't expect to get anywhere near the bestseller list.

As a fiction writer, I am drawn to games that I can enjoy on my own, with a story, a quest, and a theme.

More recently, he has collaborated on text / image projects with writer and theorist Lawrence Rickels as well as fiction writer and translator Brian Evenson.

In an essay he wrote for Harper's in 1996, Franzen lamented the declining cultural authority of the American novel and described his personal search for reasons to persist as a fiction writer.

Not exact matches

This is a concept that most commonly applies to fiction writers rather than marketers, but it's just as important.

This is why I am trying to understand how you and Dawkins both take a work that you both claim to be fiction yet you reject the main character (God) as defined, accepted and understood by the writer and the audience of that day.

Like any brilliant stylist, Kierkegaard was aware that his first audience was always a fiction: part of his job as a writer was to imagine his reader.

Could God use modern writers of fiction, or perhaps even baseball players, much as he used the Assyrians in Isaiah's day, to communicate his truth to us?

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

Aldous Huxley and other science fiction writers imagined that atheistic societies would use human corpses as fertiliser, but they misunderstood the human psyche.

«No major writer in our history,» he said, «has ever shown such an extent of accomplishment» as this author of essays, parodies, apologetics, criticism, light verse, and memoirs; scholar and author of detective fiction; ecclesiastical historian; translator; and homilist of genius.

The sins of imperialism stain the British as well as the French, and if there is a lacuna in my historical fiction, it is the absence of a novel dealing with the kind of cruelties that have been exposed by writers such as William Dalrymple (The Last Mughal) and Ferdinand Mount (The Tears of the Rajas).

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

Many modern preachers would be better off as stand - up comedians, psychologists, or fiction writers.

Both of these scenes — as well as innumerable others like them in Tolstoy's fiction — are simply far beyond Dostoevsky's range as a writer; he could never have produced anything remotely like them.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

To take just one example, in arguing that few contemporary writers take on the fundamental question of belief versus unbelief, Elie dismisses Alice McDermott's fiction as being merely about Irish Catholic New Yorkers from the 1950s and»60s.

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

Randy Boyagoda seems not to have noticed that the writers he's tired of seeing cited by his fellow Christians did not place their faith, as he does, in anything so small as literature («Faith in Fiction,» August / September).

STURBRIDGE, Mass. (Feb. 25, 2014)-- Historical fiction writer Sally Cabot Gunning will speak at Old Sturbridge Village on March 6, as part of the OSV Overseers» Distinguished Speaker Series.

INK by James Graham, writer of hugely popular production This House, will launch at the Almeida this June as part of the theatre's new season exploring the «reality behind fiction».

[5] The Cameroonian fiction writer, Makuchi, alludes to the propensity to imagine and remember this period of Cameroonian history as irrational and the freedom fighters as murders: «Are you PU murderers not going to do the same thing tomorrow... Eeeh?

The news out of Washington is putting a kink in the bevy of political dramas on TV as reality becomes stranger than any fiction writers can dream up.

Of course, you can not make it up the way a fiction writer can, but you can present your story honestly and skillfully so the reader is as convinced as you are of the interpretation you are now going to present.

And again, like 2001, it had a towering science fiction writer as its adviser: Robert Heinlein, one of the fathers of modern sci - fi.

A few months ago J. G. Ballard was described as a «science fiction writer and novelist», an interesting distinction that set me wondering.

As an amateur science - fiction writer, I was excited to read that the difficulty in detecting dark matter may be due to it — or gravity — being an emergent phenomenon of a suite of particles (18 March, p 28).

▪ The Squad by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, a graduate student of Santos's who «doubles as a teen - girl - fiction writer.»

The problem Sagan faced, as all science fiction writers do in such situations, is that at the speed of, say, the Voyager spacecraft (the fastest human - made object), it would take about 490,000 years to get to Vega.