Sentences with phrase «when new writers»

When new writers ask me what to do, these days I suggest they wait, whether they're looking for a DIY or traditional approach.

Surprisingly to many people, I very often recommend that when new writers have finished their first manuscript, they should be submitting it to a publisher.

But when a newer writer, out of timidity or simple faith in what they're told, unquestioningly follows the conventional wisdom, their writing will suffer.

A lot of new advice I've been reading lately, when newer writers ask about lengths for manuscripts, has been «write to the story's natural length.»

But when a new writer gets in a hurry and doesn't allow a book to gain speed, then they start screwing with it, changing covers, changing prices, and even start giving it away.

That said, when a new writer looks at a book from a traditional publisher, they think it's perfect BECAUSE IT IS IN PRINT.

Not exact matches

I experienced this from the other side during the two years I spent at Conde Nast Portfolio, when the great Graydon Carter made it his mission to render Vanity Fair's new sister title irrelevant by publishing the best longform business journalism in town, even if that meant hiring away Portfolio's writers, like Michael Lewis.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

When pitching to journalists, too many startups that are new to PR try to reach out to the top writer or editor or the «face» of a publication.

And, as Canadian writer Nina Munk details in The Idealist, her new book about the economist, he refused to take any blame when things went wrong.

A study conducted at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania revealed that when books penned by unknown writers were reviewed in the New York Times, sales of their work increased by a third, even if the reviews were negative.

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

In the future, we hope that when playwrights and song writers hear man - machine duet, they'll be inspired to use new technology on their next composition for the stage.

How - to writer Jerry Buchanan once said, «When you sell a man a how - to book, you are not selling him paper and ink; you are selling him a whole new life.»

When New Yorker writer Jeffrey Toobin asked McDougal about her ties with AMI and Trump for a story about AMI's CEO in 2017, Farrow writes, an AMI representative wrote a draft response for her, emailing it to her with the subject line «SEND THIS.»

When you want to be the best content writer you can be, you will constantly hone your skills and learn new tricks wherever you can.

Not even the most committed pro-choice feminist needs to make her bona fides this clear when discussing a new book, never mind a writer with strong progressive credentials who's already published some thirty books to all sorts of critical and popular acclaim.

Because when it comes to enemy - love and our response to evil, the New Testament writers race to the life and teaching of Christ as the pattern for believers to imitate.

In fact, I was still trying to process what I'd learned upon reading The King Jesus Gospelthat day — that somehow I'd managed to be a Christian for twenty - five years without understanding what the writers of the New Testament meant when they referred to the gospel.

While I still believe there is an element of relativity to the gospel because the gospel is about Jesus and everyone encounters Jesus a little differently, McKnight reminded me of just how important it is to acknowledge the fact that the writers of the New Testament had something specific in mind when they used the word «gospel.»

When writing of this relationship, Paul along with many other New Testament writers, tells his readers that it is given by and enabled by God's Spirit.

Another staggering mishandling of Scripture occurs when Piper claims that the household codes of the New Testament, wherein the biblical writers urge wives to submit to their husbands and husbands to love their wives, are unique to the Bible and that «there's nothing like it in any culture in the world.»

I do all sorts of things with my opinions — shout them at televangelists and news anchors on TV, collect them from my favorite writers and speakers and pundits, hide behind them when I'm afraid of a new idea or perspective, stick them on Facebook and Twitter through little sound bites and thumbs - up applications.

DeYoung also takes issue with our guest blogger's argument that the Greek term the New Testament writer Paul uses when describing homosexuality, para physin, has been misconstrued by modern translators to mean «unnatural.»

New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade, in a flattering profile of Dr. Hogan, waxes enthusiastic about «the magical moment when the mouse embryo changes from a blob to a being.»

When you are a writer working in New York City, you need something to remind you of what the rest of the country is like: This was mine.

My church had succumbed to writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church is no longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.

Whatever may have been the actual course of events, historically speaking, which the New Testament means to signify when it speaks of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, it is at least clear that it was the conviction of the New Testament writers, building on the testimony of the disciples after the crucifixion of Jesus — as it has been the continuing conviction of millions of Christian people since that time — that far from Jesus» being «put out of the way» by his death at the hands of the Roman authorities in Palestine, he was «let loose into the world.»

When New Testament writers refer to «the Scriptures», they always (with two exceptions, in late - written books) mean what we call the Old Testament (with or without the Apocrypha).

But, I question what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.

And then, when I thought about my life after school, about how writers must live, how a writer must create, the places where writers go, I thought of New York City walk - ups, of Montreal cobblestones and the longed - for perfecting of my French accent, I thought of London flats, of Paris lofts, I thought of big cities, and crowded streets, old architecture, late nights, I thought of moving back east.

But even when we understand why, for example, the New Testament writers went to great pains to confirm Jesus» birth in Old Testament predictions of a Savior, or to relate his biological lineage to King David, or to tie his betrayal and death to other Old Testament prophecies («so that the scriptures might be fulfilled»)-- we still are left with a fragmentary puzzle instead of a clear picture of the «real» Jesus.

In this way, when using terms like the «son of God» about Jesus, the New Testament writers were certainly making theological claims about Jesus, but more than that, were making political claims about Jesus.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

Interpreting the symbolism, it indicates the writer's expectation that in the great moment, when final victory was to come supernaturally to «the saints of the Most High,» the three empires, Babylon, Media, and Persia, would continue, right into the new age, changed only in that their imperial rule was taken from them.

Again when the text of the New Testament itself was intoned, in readings from the New Testament, from John, from Paul and other writers, he began to sense the bite of the original and more intellectual Greek, standing behind the fourth - century Latin text of Jerome's translation (the Vulgate), Latin which was now part of Luther's natural and normal way of expressing himself.

When the writers of the New Testament hold up this aspect of his life for imitation, they make clear allusions to Isaiah 53.

So when we heard the actor, writer, director, and all - around hilarious guy would be in town to promote his new movie Sausage Party, we knew we had to do it up right.

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That one is just a figment of the New York writers» imagination, created when the Browns and the Giants were in their heyday.»

From left to right, it went from «ha ha, yessss, I get to roast a celebrity's new book» to «oh my god, the prose is a million times worse than I expected, and I was already expecting it to be awful» to «it's actually shameful that this entitled twit gets a platform for his misogynist twaddle just because he's famous, especially when the attention and resources could have been spent on an unknown writer who deserved it.»

Mark Bittman, the esteemed food writer and home chef, recently said in a column in the New York Times that he never made separate meals for his kids when they were young, but allowed them something simple that they could make themselves — think a peanut butter sandwich, bowl of cereal or toast — if they did not want to eat what was cooked for dinner.

Not all 1st graders become readers and writers overnight; different children learn at different paces, especially in 1st grade when there are many changes and new skills to acquire.

Marguerite Elisofon is a New York City writer and the author of My Picture Perfect Family: What Happens When One Twin Has Autism, a memoir about how her family navigated life with a child on the autistic spectrum before the internet and support groups existed.

Lenore Skenazy, the writer / columnist / mom / blogger who started yet another crack in the great parental divide when she wrote about letting her nine - year old son ride a subway alone in New York, is encouraging moms and dads to take what may be considered a radical step for today's parents.

I'm so excited to be able to officially announce the Dads4Kesem Hadrian's Wall Walk in July 2016, when I'll be joining 11 other dad bloggers, writers, and influencers, as we walk together to raise funds for a new Camp Kesem chapter at the University of Maryland in honor of my friend Oren Miller, who lost his battle with cancer last year.

NEW BRIGHTON — Island - based writer / actress Marian Fontana has known Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio since 2001, when they were Park Slope neighbors.

When the civil war ended and the republicans lost, the new fascist regime wanted Spain as «one big and free», so they tried to eliminate every cultural manifestation from this historical regions, banning the use of other languages other than the Spanish, killing writers, artists, defenders of their culture and making it look like if you were talking basque, Catalan, or Galician you will be evil or dumb.

THE story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 began nine years earlier, when Janos Vargha, a biologist from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences began a new career as a writer with a small monthly nature magazine called Buvar.

In his new book Suggestible You, science writer Vance opens our innate mental medicine cabinet to look at the placebo effect — or what happens when a person receives a fake treatment and feels better just the same.