Sentences with phrase «writing your life as»

More than common circumstances, however, what drew me and so many other young writers to L'Engle was her articulation of the writing life as a sacred art.

I think most of the world thinks of the world thinks of the writing life as being one of sitting around all day making things up.

I want to like Writing Life as a platform — I mean, a lot of my personal ebook purchases are in fact via Kobo, just because I really like how they've set up partnerships with indie bookstores.

You have to look at where KOBO will be selling your books, will there be DRM, how much more time will it take to prepare and upload a file to Writing Life as opposed to just uploading to Smashwords and letting them distribute to KOBO for you.

Her website was selected by The Write Life as one of the Top 100 Best Websites for Writers in 2014.

This interview delves into his background, career progression, and Kobo Writing Life as a valuable way for writers to reach readers around the world.

Writing your life as a story can help people to organize their thoughts and grow as a person, and people who purposefully use stories in their lives may be happier on average.

Not exact matches

And as sappy as it may sound, I love living in love,» Hunter writes.

Samantha Shannon, writing in The Guardian, for example, suggests that as with other goods and services, consumers should have to live with the e-books they buy:

«As a company that is committed to the principle that everyone deserves to live without fear of discrimination simply for being who they are, becoming an employer in North Carolina, where members of our teams will not have equal rights under the law, is simply untenable,» Schulman wrote in an open letter.

Not as the rough equivalent of a really, really hard pop quiz from the universe, but instead as an opportunity to write your own identity, assert your values, and actively shape your life.

Not all of them were fully functional, but keep in mind as I write this review the app store hasn't gone live yet and Apple Watch is still nearly three weeks away from launch.

And if you couldn't be there in person, I hope you got to follow the live - stream as well as the terrific session reports my colleagues at Fortune and Time wrote up lickety split.

«Prudential's methodical actuary,» as I wrote in Truth, «had gone through his company's own life insurance payouts for the previous year and had discovered that two words kept recurring in the ledgers: malignant neoplasm.»

And here, the breakthroughs have been both genuine and life - changing, as I've written before.

We can nurture its growth throughout our lives — and we can use it as a radical force for social transformation,» he writes.

Written by broadcast journalist Katy Tur, the New York Times - bestseller is part - memoir, part - recap of her life on the road as the NBC News pool reporter for the Trump campaign during the 2016 presidential race.

«We believe the acquisition will help position [Express Scripts] for the continued shift to a value - based care world and view the added platform and lives as a significant positive... heading into the 2018 selling season which is looking to be a competitive period,» wrote David Larsen, a Leerink Partners analyst, who rates Express Scripts shares at market perform.

Every woman should write down a list of their own successes and use it as a tool to remind themselves what they have accomplished in their lives.

«It has the power to influence public debate, mobilize communities, and — most importantly — offer creative solutions to help people receive better care, no matter where they live or who they are,» write Richards and Karp, who believe that the tech industry owes its success to both of its employees as well as the communities it serves, whose health needs are often partially met by Planned Parenthood itself.

Dostoevsky once wrote that a person could live in a square yard of space, as long as that person was free; but he couldn't possibly have meant at $ 589 a night???

bestseller «10-10-10: A Life - Transforming Idea,» a decision - making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for

On her own, she is the author of the 2008 - 2009 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller «10-10-10: A Life - Transforming Idea,» a decision - making concept she originally wrote about as a columnist for O: The Oprah Magazine.

As science suggests, those memories are bound to make you happier than you expect, but Rubin also notes that «we tend to write down the happier things,» which also focuses the mind on the positive aspects of life, boosting joy with very little effort.

Not to mention it's more personal, visual, and we are living in a world where the visual is often regarded as a better engagement than the written.

«My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another,» McGowan wrote.

If you treat the writing as a fun brainstorm on a living document rather than a daunting exercise, your effort will be inspiring!

As the scholar Eric St. John once wrote, «There is, perhaps, no college decision that is more thought - provoking, gut wrenching and rest - of - your - life oriented — or disoriented — than the choice of a major.»

«I seriously doubt that I would have been as successful in my career (and happy in my personal life) if I hadn't always placed importance on my health and fitness,» Branson once wrote in a blog post.

Since stepping down as director of marketing for Facebook in 2011 she has founded her own media company, written a couple of books, produced a much - hyped but short - lived reality show, and spoken at several business and tech conferences.

Cliche though it may be, «Variety's the very spice of life / / That gives it all its flavor,» as William Cowper wrote.

Every endeavor is going to have valleys, as past guest on The Pursuit, Seth Godin, wrote in The Dip, so make sure you're building your life and work around something you will still enjoy on the hardest, bleakest days.

As he wrote in a letter to his SpaceX employees, «Creating the technology needed to establish life on Mars is and always has been the fundamental goal of SpaceX.

«If only I knew then, as I know now, that there is wisdom in uncertainty — it opens a door to the unknown, and only from the unknown can life be renewed constantly,» he wrote.

As noted child - education expert Laura Thomas has written, «Our children's early experiences shape what they imagine to be possible for people who look like them, live where they live, or come from where they came from.

But as Tony Robbins writes in Money: Master the Game, it's also important to make sure your venture doesn't consume all financial resources available — or prevent you from growing your life - savings.

I used to resist when people referred to me as a «creative coach» or «life coach» or even a few times as a «spiritual coach,» but my writing took on new dimensions once I accepted that I was seen as a valuable resource in those areas.

«Making too many decisions about mundane details is a waste of a limited resource: your mental energy... if you want to be able to have more mental resources throughout the day, you should identify the aspects of your life that you consider mundane — and then «routinize» those aspects as much as possible,» he has written.

Over its relatively short life - span, the publishing platform known as Medium has been described as the digital version of a lot of things — a magazine, a stable of magazines, a PR news - wire, a social network based around writing, and so on.

«I will probably feel... upset as my social life will be totally stopped if I can not used Facebook and can not find my friends in Facebook, I will also feel like left behind as I will not be able to know what has happened with my Facebook friends in the coming five days,» wrote one participant.

«I try to lead as normal a life as possible, and not think about my condition, or regret the things it prevents me from doing, which are not that many,» Hawking, who long used a wheelchair, reportedly wrote on his website.

I've always thought of writing as being an indispensable part of the good life.

«Written in 1960s San Francisco and New York, Didion's collection of essays is not so much a bundle of nonfiction as it is a long, threaded musing on her own life, set to the daunting counterculture tempo of the times,» Wang and Wolfson note.

Daily emails are not a new business model by any means, but the founders of theSkimm managed to breathe new life into a communication tool that many businesses have written off as tired or ineffective.

Whether that means it's a passive income opportunity such as by writing ebooks or audiobooks, or it means engaging in active income activities like promoting your own course or affiliate offer or conducting a live webinar.

«There is no good cause for further judicial involvement where the court has now heard directly from Redstone that he has lost trust in Herzer, does not want her in his life and instead wants his daughter Shari to look after him as necessary,» the judge wrote in an opinion this morning.

But relatively recent trends — urbanization, mass immigration, the rise of big business — have found us more frequently living and working alongside strangers rather than neighbours; as Cain writes, «facing the question of how to make a good impression on people to whom [we] had no civic or family ties.»

The Secret Life of the Grown - Up Brain: The Surprising Talents of the Middle - Aged Mind (Viking) is a roundup of the most recent science on how the human brain ages, as well as a guide to «toning up your brain circuits» to better weather the onset of age — which is itself a relatively new problem for humankind, writes author Barbara Strauch, The New York Times «s deputy science and health and medical science editor, whose earlier book, The Primal Teen, considered the teenage brain.

«We live in a time of acute frustration with experts, even as many of us remain dependent on them and continue to heed their advice,» writes journalist David H. Freeman in Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us — and How to Know When Not to Trust Them (Little, Brown).

«Even though extant research has identified numerous predictors of people's happiness and well being, most of these factors represent relatively stable aspects of an individual's life, such as the cultural environment in which one is raised or resides and demographics such as age, education, social class, marital status, and religion,» write the researchers.