Sentences with phrase «young writers often»

It's short and sweet, and it forces the writer to stick to the point, something young writers often struggle with.

Young writers often feel blocked by the act of writing itself.

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Usually the idea of modesty was presented innocuously enough, often at big concerts and conferences led by eloquent, attractive young artists and writers like Joshua Harris and Rebecca St. James with largely good intentions.

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.

Such glib, blithe quips are the motor oil of the teen comedy, but in her first outing as a solo writer and director, Gerwig is as sensitive to place and the fragility of young and old bodies as she is to her protagonist's often hurtful words.

Young, black Muslim - Americans are not often featured in American cinema, so writer / director Nijla Mu» min's directorial debut, «Jinn,» is a welcome change.

The various elements often seem to clash: Golden Age musical and the»30s - or»60s - style left - wing labor drama, the young cast careening and leaping to songs like «Seize the Day» while the writers try to fill a broad canvas with social detail.

MILLER»S GIRL by Jade Bartlett The story of a young precocious writer who becomes involved with her high school creative writing teacher in a dark coming - of - age drama that explores the often blurred lines of connectivity between professor and protege, child and adult.

Writer director Mond leaves it up to the audience to judge the redemption of the lad (or not) in a slow - moving film filled with regular outbursts from a young man of privilege who has been sponging on the family far too often.

When it comes to fiction versus nonfiction, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts isn't «an either or thing,» says Marfè Ferguson Delano, a nonfiction children's book writer whose books often connect her young readers to novels on the subjects she writes about.

Short story writer, Chinese novelist and the youngest, first female President of the Chinese Writers Association (elected at age 49 in 2006), Tie Ning has long written about ordinary female protagonists who are often from rural backgrounds.

We don't often do self - promotion here at Writer Beware — but I have a new book out!Today is publication day for my young adult historical novel, Color Song.

Very young, inexperience writers arrive on the WU group page having just put their baby out into the world, often to dismal results (or crickets), and they are completely disillusioned.

Posted by Victoria Strauss We don't often do self - promotion here at Writer Beware — but yesterday was publication day for my young adult historical fantasy Passion Blue — a novel of art, astrology, and romance set in Renaissance Italy.

I often tell young people that as a writer you are very powerful, that you can make absolutely anything happen.

Eisler, a former CIA operative turned author, has been one of the most prominent examples of self - publishing, along with fellow writers J.A. Konrath and young - adult author Amanda Hocking — who made more than two million dollars by publishing her own books via the Kindle marketplace (often charging as little as 99 cents for them) before signing a $ 2 - million deal with a traditional publisher earlier this year.

Writer Shamus Young details how games face these issues and more: how companies that make graphics cards don't often document the changes to drivers they make for popular games, how the licensing for music gets very complicated as time moves on, how both consoles and operating systems are locked down to prevent backwards compatibility.

I first saw drawing by Wilson in a group show at P.S. 1, where writers often mentioned her in the same breath as Amy Cutler, another artist who works on paper with plenty of white space, spare outlines, and a cast of young women in allusively rural settings.

Research in other artistic disciplines indicates that when young people recognize they are part of a community, they are generally more willing to take the rules of that community and transfer those rules to other learning.130 Novice legal writers are particularly prone to feeling that their past writing experience is irrelevant to the unique organizational demands and argument constructs of legal discourse; «[t] heir [consequent] discouragement, and the anxiety that often accompanies it, can produce profound self - doubt, and, for more than a few, a kind of writing paralysis.»