Sentences with phrase «as a fiction writer»

The publishing world continues to evolve, but myths about who can make a living as a fiction writer maintain a life of their own.
I point her out as a fiction writer who I think does it right and has a very loyal fan following.
So I can watch them weild mathematics just as a fiction writer weilds a pen?
Your job as a fiction writer is to focus on your characters, and to ignore — to the extent you can — the rest of the bullshit...
Your brand as a fiction writer should be nothing more than a natural, organic extension of who you are because THAT is the only way you should be writing — authentically.»
I'm sure I'll get told by readers if they do or don't like them in good time — in fact that's probably the best way to find out what works and what doesn't and will help me grow as a fiction writer
So as part of my series here at the end of 2012, looking back and looking forward, I thought I would do an article on the good stuff and the bad stuff you face in getting to a solid career as a fiction writer.
As Kristen and I discussed recently, it's not easy building a platform as a fiction writer.
And though I knew he was reviewed favorably for his novella Shopgirl — praised as «a serious, intimate, rather dark comedy of manners» in BookPage — I know I have never really taken Martin seriously as a fiction writer.
Knowing how to get an agent is undoubtedly important, but as fiction writer Myung - Ok Lee learned, knowing when to get a new agent is sometimes even more important.
A disarmingly friendly man despite (or because of) his snuff - film aesthetics as a fiction writer, Cooper has acted as unofficial evangelist for UCLA's MFA students for the past two years.
So often, these posts are punditry making spurious claims and connecting disparate dots of information to «prove» that self - publishing is still somehow a terrible money - making idea and traditional publishing is the only way to make a living as a fiction writer.
It was at a time in Hawkins» life that she says she was «very bad at following things through» and didn't have a lot of confidence in herself as a fiction writer.
I am beginning to allow myself to think of myself as a fiction writer.
As a fiction writer I imagine myself to be a plodding farmer of sorts, enjoying the feel of the dirt, kicking stones out of my fields, chasing chickens off the new seed, furrowing row after row after row out of rich clean loam.
Now, as a fiction writer, I'm not not surprised that Blume wants a larger share of the market to open up; that means more potential royalties.
As fiction writers, our goal is to find readers for our book or series.
Anyone starting out as a fiction writer should read it.
It seems to radiate through every word I hear from writers lost in the myths of starting up as fiction writers.
And I think it's very interesting that you can now, as a fiction writer, for the first time really since the demise of the fiction magazines in the «50s and «60s — it was possible then to be a workaday fiction writer, you know, just a daily bread and butter, making, not a killing, but a living and enjoying the work.
The gatekeepers — agents who submit to editors who acquire books to publish and distribute to booksellers — are no longer needed to make a living as a fiction writer.
I still don't see myself as a fiction writer but it's fun to «have a go» and I do love flash fiction!
That's good news for us as fiction writers, though.
«As a fiction writer, I don't expect to get anywhere near the bestseller list.
As a fiction writer, I am drawn to games that I can enjoy on my own, with a story, a quest, and a theme.
As a fiction writer, Carver was by no means unique.
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