Sentences with phrase «modern authors often»

Modern authors often choose the present tense to add edginess and immediacy to a story, but the more traditional use of past tense is generally better loved by big publishing companies, who are increasingly risk averse for financial reasons.Tales abound of authors instructed by commercial publishers to rewrite an entire book to change the tense from present to past, before thy'll consider publishing it.

Not exact matches

Even more to the point, no two modern - day scholars seem able to draw up the same common list of errors, each finding on the other's worksheet difficulties which have, in their opinion, plausible modern - day alternate explanations often involving a reassessment of the author's intention and / or cultural context.

Often times I am looking for a clearer understanding of a time period in Christian history (generally because a modern author has made some wild and confrontational claim about how a certain doctrine or denomination arose).

Dr Paul Howard - Jones, author of the article from Bristol University's Graduate School of Education, said: «These ideas are often sold to teachers as based on neuroscience — but modern neuroscience can not be used support them.

«Plants are often peripheral to modern life, but they were central to fundamental problems of determining what is food and what is fatal across evolutionary time,» says psychological scientist and study author Annie Wertz of Yale University.

Much like the often - spouted criticisms of modern art that claim «my two - year - old could paint that on the bedroom wall with the contents of his diaper,» are authors writing this for laughs, or because they are genuinely fed up with what is considered award - winning and best - selling content?

Often dark past haunts you badly, award - winning author, Miyuki Miyabe depicting the story of Ghosts of early modern japan.

In the modern world of publishing I often hear discussions of author platform, especially among new writers trying to break in.