Sentences with phrase «about narrative writing»

So Mr. Coleman is just plain wrong when he says no one gives a [expletive] about narrative writing.

But I would like to write today about narrative writing and its importance.

Not exact matches

Countless books and articles were written about it, but only «The Smartest Guys in the Room» holds up a decade later as the definitive narrative.

It was nearly a year and a half ago that we wrote in AllThingsD about the remarkable and inspiring narrative we called «Egypt 2.0.»

When Jordan Bishop is not writing personal or company profiles, he contributes insights about the misunderstood to publications like Forbes, never - before - told travel narratives to a handful of in - flight magazines and enables international clients to tell transformative stories as a principal at STORIED Agency.

I call this alchemy «narrative theology» because I'm usually just wanting to write what I think and experience about God and the best way I know how to do that is through story - telling.

As he wrote earlier in this chapter, any use of the test as «a substitute for searching conversation» about world view / setting and the other dimensions of narrative explored later in the book was in his view more likely to yield a mechanist reduction than a deepened symbolic understanding.

In the present volume there are repeated and sometimes moving narratives of a sense of «coming home» upon joining the homosexual community, much as Cardinal Newman and other converts have written about «coming home» when they joined the Roman Catholic Church.

And so I in my turn, your Excellency, as one who has gone over the whole course of these events in detail, have decided to write a connected narrative for you, so as to give you authentic knowledge about the matters of which you have been informed.1

18 So Mark has written, for once permitting the language of emotion to breach the severe reserve of his narrative Jesus now left his friends and withdrew «about a stone's throw,» to fall into solitary and agonized prayer.

Here we are on much firmer ground than in the case of the Gospel narratives, for not only is it the earliest written testimony to the resurrection (written about twenty to twenty - five years after the death of Jesus), but it is first - hand testimony, and most probably the «only written testimony to come from one who could claim to be himself an «eye - witness» of the resurrection».18 Admittedly Paul, on his own admission, was in a very unusual category.

If you are preaching, teaching, or writing about the birth narratives in the Gospels (Matthew 2, Luke 1 - 2, etc), this is a book you absolutely must read.

Tyler Ward recently released Marriage Rebranded, where he debunks modern myths about marriage, tells real - life stories and offers unorthodox best practices that are sure to help anyone write a better marital narrative for themselves.

But, more than anything, GamerGate highlights two competing narratives: journalistic integrity when writing about video games and the struggles women face in a male - dominated industry.

As Adam is simply the Hebrew word for «man», the story is about man and his wife, and becomes one of the most penetrating narratives ever written about human self - understanding.

He became a prominent engineer, but remained so embattled about the Colorado railroad route that he wrote a book on his survey (unpublished) and a two - volume history of the river (also unpublished), from which this absorbing narrative has been extracted.

The Falcons are coming off four straight ATS losses and seem to be following the Super Bowl hangover narrative that PJ recently wrote about.

After a long narrative about salary negotiations in which the book had made me look like some sort of southern plantation owner dealing with one of his slaves, he wrote: «There is no law that says you have to like your boss...»

As Astro and Danielle Teller write in their book Sacred Cows: The Truth About Divorce and Marriage, «the narrative is, true love, if it exists at all, by definition exists with the person you said «I do» to.

The order will unseal just the narrative statements written by cops on the more than 850,000 dismissed summonses — and not identifying information about the person it was issued to or the cop involved, which will be redacted, according to the ruling by Manhattan federal court Judge Robert Sweet.

A few years ago, the researchers surveyed a random sampling of parents about their attitudes toward vaccines and then showed the participants one of four kinds of information: written material from the CDC explaining the lack of evidence that the MMR vaccine causes autism; written material about the dangers of the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; images of children who have the diseases prevented by the MMR vaccine; or a dramatic narrative about an infant who almost died of measles.

Here Stott pours what remains of her pent - up fascination with Darwin into a beautifully written narrative about his intellectual predecessors.

If you're not working the room like a Hollywood head - turner on the red carpet, you're probably writing a cinematic narrative in your head about all the ups and downs of your romantic life.

Furthermore, you can write in here some brief or long narratives about yourself, the things you like to do, your favourite places for a date, and the type of person you would like to meet.

It's all about storytelling, and the narrative is really sound and well written.

Indeed, one of the best things about Sunless Sea, apart from its beautifully crafted elder - horror stories, fantastically drawn artwork and generally creepy atmosphere, is the feeling that the decisions you make within the game are shaping the narrative, and that by playing, you are writing yourself into that story.

However, Lee Marshall of Screen Daily writes, «If narrative cinema is all about the harnessing of character and atmosphere in the service of a strong story, then Matteo Garrone's follow - up to his 2015 Tale of Tales succeeds on every level.»

Based on R C Sherriff's 1928 play, you can see how the narrative drives the story as Sheriff himself was on the front - line in WWI and survived to write about it.

Dirty Weekend Directed and written by Neil LaBute (USA)-- World Premiere, Narrative Neil LaBute returns to Tribeca with this sharp - edged comedy treat about the ripple effects of desire, whether it's followed or left unredeemed.

I've written before about how anthology movies get on my nerves, and how they trample my nerves when the overarching narrative relies on coincidence to bring the characters together.

Meanwhile, their economical, decidedly un-flashy direction (mimicking McCarthy's writing, and aided by longtime collaborator Roger Deakins's beautifully severe cinematography) repeatedly conveys narrative undercurrents in entrancingly subtle ways, such that the plethora of animal carcasses, instances of man - versus - beast violence, and Ed Tom's yarn about a slaughterhouse mishap coalesce into a chilling portrait of anarchic interspecies warfare.

Some of the narrative towards the end is also cobbled together in a jarring manner (a few characters get written out of the movie surprisingly earlier than expected), but again, it's just hard to get to up in arms about it; the movie is so damn infectiously uproarious.

Written by Daniel Kunka and bought for Smokehouse and Spotlight producers Nicole Rocklin and Blye Pagon Faust, the drama is inspired by a number of different stories that piece together a narrative about starvation in third world countries.

This is the type of film that will inspire a multitude of essays (both visual and written) and think pieces about how Villeneuve and DP Roger Deakins (who also shot PRISONERS with the auteur) construct their bold visual narrative alongside screenwriter Taylor Sheridan's written one.

Klinger's cine - literacy is well known to those familiar with his writing and programming, but what's special about Porto, especially as a debut narrative feature, is the relative internalization of its influences, which feel secondary to its larger grappling with a timeless emotional enigma: namely, infatuation, and the question of how such a mighty force can also be so fleeting.

There's no space to write about the narrative in the detail it warrants here, but Hou's methods — synced with cinematographer Mark Lee Ping Bing and production designer Wen - Ying Huang — turn the aesthetics into the story.

With its imitations of Robert Bresson close - ups, pointless references to European political change, actors talking about acting, junkies who are never seen doing drugs, «unexpected» pop songs, and deliberately obscured narrative (probably because — wait for it — it has the arc of a bad Victorian social novel), Schanelec's studious bore seems intended for an audience of people who write film festival catalogue descriptions.

Although the criteria presumably remain constant («One narrative film directed by or written by a woman... making its North American, International or World premiere»), TFF has been a bit oblique about who the actual candidates were this year for this prestigious award.

These narrative films ``... would help to break ground in Hollywood in terms of funding women storytellers and women who were directing the films...» The 2018 Sundance Film Festival will premiere three Gamechanger films: The Tale, a story about sexual abuse written and directed by Jennifer Fox; Nancy, a dramatic story blurring the lines of fact and fiction written and directed by Christina Choe; and The Long Dumb Road, a road trip movie filled with detours and bumps along the way, written and directed by Hannah Fidell.

He draws on his life experiences and stories, on his decades - long reading of influential scholars and visionaries, on era - specific music, movies, and books, and on his university, media, civil society, and United Nations consulting background to write a rousing, engaging and compelling narrative about what humanity faces in the 21st century.

In the writing area, students can learn about the goal setting process as they strive to meet goals with informative writing, narrative writing, opinion writing, report writing, letter writing, book reports, and writing skills.

Last time, I finished a discussion about federal and state grants with a promise to discuss the narrative writing process for prospective grant seekers.

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By teaching students about slavery through these narratives, the Claremont teachers engage their students in writing by personalizing the study of slavery.

You might show a graph to students as a writing prompt or ask them to use a data set to create a narrative about a day in the life of a person.

In this project, English, social studies, science, and / or art students not only learn a great deal about the topic they write on and illustrate, they also learn about the classic components of good narrative, and why it is unexpectedly challenging to make a publication - worthy picture book.

Learn about what it means to apply three key elements of the CCSS writing standards — argument, informative / explanatory, and narrative — when teaching English - language learners.

I promised to follow up my last blog about demographics with a start to the process of writing your narrative.

One good thing about this easy - to - use technology is that students can still use important English language arts skills like writing a narrative, planning a sequential story, and including key details when getting ready to make a movie.

In the classroom: Have students write about an event from childhood and insert their current self into the narrative as either an ally to their younger self or simply an «explainer» who helps move the story along.