Sentences with phrase «writing younger characters»

On the publication day of her new novel The Boy Who Lied, multi-award-winning YA author Kim Slater gives advice On Writing younger characters for a younger audience.

This tale of children and adults growing up doesn't quite have the emotional punch of THE DESCENDANTS, but Faxon and Rash once again prove that they can write compelling, flawed characters as well as writing young characters that seem real, which is a rare quality.

Not exact matches

When I was very young I pictured myself writing in front of a beautiful view with endless cups of coffee next to me, rather like Colin Firth's character in Love Actually, but without the typewriter.

«There is no anti-poverty tool that we can provide for disadvantaged young people that will be more valuable that character strengths,» Tough writes, a claim that won't be easy for liberals to stomach.

The character educators Tough writes about in his book believe that confidence, optimism and curiosity are the attributes we need to instill in our young; they just don't know how to do it yet.

Actually quite a lot, and Douglas Hurd and Edward Young have written a wonderful reassessment of the great politician and showman in Disraeli: Or, The Two Lives (Weidenfeld & Nicolson # 20) in which they explore the paradoxes at the centre of his character, and how his exotic personality and ability to dazzle his contemporaries overcame his lack of principles, indebtedness and disloyalty.

Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

Variety also praises the actress, writing, «Gerwig manages to just be, making her precisely the right young star to carry such a genial glimpse at a character who doesn't even seem to realize she's trying to find herself.»

And though Cody's writing is often reduced to arch, mock - slang dialogue (i.e., her script for Juno), Young Adult showcased a writer who was able to walk the fine line between caricature and character study.

Writing / directing duo Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff introduce the viewers to characters (who simply just carry the actor's names) that reflect what these two young men think high school students might act or sound like.

But the best I can surmise after puzzling over the picture is that the younger Gilroy came up with a compelling character and a thematic journey, then didn't bother writing a story in which to frame them.

«Split into chapters, replicating short stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.»

As we watch young African - American characters — and a few young white women, too — mistreated and / or killed in scenes that go on and on and on, it's hard not to wonder whether Bigelow (and the material) would have been better served by not teaming up with her usual (white) screenwriter, Mark Boal (who also wrote The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty), just to bring in the perspective of actual people of color, rather than that of white liberal guilt.

I think first and foremost the character of Parvana and the way Deborah Ellis writes for young people.

Curtis did not discuss whether he would stop writing after the release of About Time, which centres on a young man (Gleeson) who discovers he can travel through time and uses his gift to change history and woo McAdams's character.

Deanna Dunagan and Amy Morton, respectively, played the roles on Broadway, and Barden acknowledges that Streep and Roberts are both younger than the characters as written in the play.

Ol Parker has written and directed what is reportedly a sequel and prequel to the original, featuring new cast members playing younger versions of the originals (Baby Driver's Lily James is the youthful analogue of Streep's character, for example).

Mary Louise Parker is good, though it feels as if her character of Sarah was written for someone younger.

Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote the «John Carter of Mars» stories, appears as a character here, a young would - be writer (Daryl Sabara of «Spy Kids») reading the journal of his late uncle (Taylor Kitsch), a swarthy, two - fisted Civil War vet searching for gold out West who stumbled instead into another Civil War — this one a thousand years old and millions of miles away.

Cody tends to write characters that are what the science - fiction fans call «a Mary Sue» — meaning an awesomely idealized version of the writer, so brilliant that the other characters sort of gaze in amazement at her.Tully has some of the narcissism seen in Juno and their follow - up, Young Adult, but there's also some unusually raw material, acted by Charlize Theron with barely smothered fury.»

Although, one could write off his characters» relationships with Halle Berry in Bulworth and Lily Collins in Rules Don't Apply as being rooted in reality, e.g. politicians often have younger mistresses and Hughes was a notorious playboy, it feels wrong here.

Written by Bryan Sipe (A Million Miles, Alpha Mall) and directed by leading Canadian filmmaker Jean - Marc Vallee (C.R.A.Z.Y., The Young Victoria, Dallas Buyers Club, Wild), Demolition is a moving character study boasting a phenomenal central performance from one of today's most exciting acting talents.

But while Quinto is a talented and promising young actor, Spock's character as written by screenwriters Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman is all wrong.

After a long opening shot in which the two young runaways walk across an expansive field, challenging one another to repeat the dirtiest words they can think of (a blown chance to write a character - defining scene for the ages, since the pair could be having an infinite number of more interesting conversations in this moment), Travis and Harrison stumble across a dusty brown sheriff's car parked beside a ravine.

Stone's character is way too young for Phoenix, who manages to transcend the Woody Allen stand - in character he has previously written for actors ranging from John Cusack (perhaps the best) and Jason Biggs (definitely the worst).

There's some really great writing on display here, from the way the film handles the mental illness metaphor permeating the entire story to the refreshing way it provides its young character with a complete arc.

Its story - within - the - story, starring Jake Gyllenhaal as an everyman whose wife and young daughter are abducted on a Texas highway late one night, is far more compelling than its framing story, in which Amy Adams mostly reads an unpublished novel (which tells the abduction story; it was written by her character's ex-husband, also played by Gyllenhaal) and looks miserably rich.

It might feel a bit cynical to write off character deaths because of external factors like franchise potential and actors» contracts, but the MCU is a multibillion - dollar enterprise: These deaths feel exploitative because they wiped out nearly every young star that matters, and the MCU can't possibly survive in the long term without reverse - engineering this event.

Each student uses the interview information she or he collected to write a story in which the younger student is the main character.

Short written essays or small - group discussion exercises that focus on heroic literary characters are an excellent way, particularly for younger students, to reflect on resilience and the role it plays in life success.

A Cross-Grade Writing Activity Older students interview younger students, then use what they learn to write a short storybook that features the youngster as the main character.

Likewise, a portion of my young adult historical romance takes place in the hot Arizona dessert, and when I wrote on equally sweltering days, it helped me imagine what the characters were experiencing.

As a young reader, did you struggle to find stories that mirrored your life and experiences KELLER: I've written plenty of practice novels and stories before The Science of Breakable Things, but they never featured a main character with my identity.

Though Welsh's characters are younger, he is older, and his writing has become even more nuanced.

She writes dark young adult fiction, with diverse characters.

Generally, I think authors write young, female characters very well.

As one of the powerhouse young adult authors who championed the #YASaves hashtag on Twitter, a cause that was taken up by authors and readers alike who felt that powerful teen literature had helped them survive high school and shaped them into the adults they are today, Rainfield often writes about the characters and topics that teen readers hunger for but that the adults in their lives want to pretend aren't real.

I do nt (sic) know what type of audience she was writing to but I was not in it... It was like I was reading a vocabulary section from the SAT... No plot, no character development...» The, presumably, young woman is right, The Maytrees is not for her nor for anyone else who is young enough to be always looking forward and never looking back, who has never spent moments lost in bitter - sweet memories of times past or wondered how life might have turned out if a different path had been taken; nor is it for someone who has never stopped to wonder what the point of life is in the first place.

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The author, Tess Sharpe, has written for young adults, and though the content of this story puts it firmly in adult territory, Harley is a character with a young adult sensibility.

Helms has a knack for writing convincing dialogue between her young characters, perhaps inspired by conversations with her 18 - year - old daughter!

OK, no doubt that's not literally true — the complete character must have come later in the writing of Alice — but that moment, the sight of that young woman walking with her strained yet beautiful grace set in motion the story of Sandy and Alice.

Anna Quindlen has written this novel with wit and humor — I particularly enjoyed the chapter titles — and has created a character I really like, especially given that she is my age and still active and attractive to a younger man.

One of the main characters, Jennifer Jones, is based loosely on Samantha Smith, the young peace activist who wrote a letter to Yuri Andopov.

As middle grade writers, we find joy in putting ourselves into the young characters we write about.

I wrote what I wanted to read, and the fact that my characters are young mostly just came from my appreciation of teenagers.

It's an overhead, 2D, turn - based, role - playing style game with a story akin to a moving Spielberg movie; a well written, cartoony but serious plot about a young psychic boy who joins a party of diverse characters (a cowboy and a princess, to name a few) who are fated to stop an evil cabal from corrupting and destroying the world.

Andrew Berardini for Art Review (March 2012) writes that Bress's work is ``... less intensely disquieting than slightly unsettling, like the portraits in the hallways of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion, which turn holographically to follow visitors» every move... Here, though, the costumes and characters and creatures in the pictures look almost friendly: softish and colourful, moving at the nonthreatening, soporific half - speed of most young children's television programming.»