Sentences with phrase «as a first time writer»

«If a bestselling author can't make it self - publishing, can you as a first time writer?

What are your concerns or issues starting out as a first time writer?

As a first time writer, seeking a publisher seemed overwhelming.

Connecting with one of the Big 5 publishers as a first time writer is unlikely.

«As a first time writer, I was new to the book world.

Not exact matches

Brenda Chapman, an animation writer - director with a storied career (Disney's The Lion King, DreamWorks» The Prince of Egypt), made headlines three years ago when she penned a New York Times op - ed addressing her painful experience being removed as the first female feature film director for Pixar's Brave, a mother - daughter fairytale she created, and replaced by a male colleague.

She moved to The Times in 1987, first as a writer on the Metro staff, then as a foreign correspondent based in San Salvador.

To teach, as some writers have, that we must accept the «insight» of modern Evolutionists, as true beyond reasonable doubt, that humans came into existence in various places at differing times (so - called «Polyphyletism») is to compromise the Church's infallible teaching that there was one first man (Adam) and one first woman (Eve) from whom we all descend.

I am more than disappointed that the Tony Jones» support team is unable to appreciate what's good about the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment and the rights they use all of the time as pastors / speakers / bloggers / writers and authors but don't want anyone else to have!

About 850 B.C. some writer in the Southern Kingdom with a marvelous storytelling gift either wrote out for the first time, or compiled with such changes as his own personality prompted, a series of stories relating the early history of his people.

Paul was one of the few of his time, perhaps the first (after Jesus), to experience that, but he (or his writers) presented that as «Jesus within» — a totally different concept, leading to all sorts of incredible theological contortions.

He started acting, however, like a real journalist: «For the first time as a writer, I felt capable of analyzing facts with a degree of impartiality.

We were practically neighbors for one year (1991 - 1992) before my first visit as I lived in nearby Oceanside, Calif., and was a freelance writer at the time.

The 2011 season was my first as a full - time college football writer for SB Nation.

Jan Morris, the British writer who wrote the first account of Hillary's ascent for the London Times, remembered him as moving «with an incongruous grace, rather like a giraffe.»

In her column from June 21, Jeanne Phillips (the daughter of the original «Dear Abby» writer Pauline Phillips who took over the column and still writes under the pen name Abigail Van Buren) replied to a reader who identified as a «first - time mom in New Jersey.»

What some writers of rejoinders do not know is that there is a tendency in our part of the world for people to believe the first account and to consider the second as a cover - up which it really is for most of the time.

It was Matthew Parris who, as the Times» sketch - writer, first suggested that Tory MP John Redwood had extra-terrestrial tendencies.

Since the passage into law the National Lotto Act, 2006 (Act 722) and Lottery Regulation, 2008 (L.I. 1948), this is the first time since 2006 that the Board and Management of NLA led by Kofi Osei - Ameyaw have decided to * Register and License * the Operators, Agents, Sub-Agents and Writers of Banker - to - Banker Lottery under Public - Private Partnership Agreement so that they can operate legitimately and pay their taxes to Government in order to increase revenue mobilization for Government through Lottery as well as create jobs for people who are interested in Private Lottery.

That's certainly what I thought as a naïve first - time science writer.

It was the first time I met Dapper before he joined the blog as a writer.

First Family?at the LA Times Stage and described a writer as someone who is willing to work for years in total obscurity with the possibility of never being read and having to endure repeated rejections.

Spielberg and writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer reinforce the «feet on the ground» aspect of traditional journalism as we watch people running, from office to office, building to building, out at dawn on a Sunday morning to grab the first copies of The New York Times issue featuring Neil Sheehan's report on McNamara's study.

In recent times, and especially since «First Reformed» debuted at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, the writer / director has spoken about his work in numerous interviews and discussions, and his comments — which I encourage interested readers to seek out — are invariably as stimulating and insightful as they are candid.

First - time writer - director David Robert Mitchell tells a coming - of - age tale with such freshness and such bemused insight it's as if it has never been told before.

The new Black Panther comic book series at Marvel, featuring Ta - Nehisi Coates as the writer and Brian Stelfreeze as the illustrator, will be the first time in a little while that a high - profile character will be penned by two creators of color — and it's Black Panther, one of the first black superhero characters ever.

It's a topic I'm weary of, and as I confront the first serious writer's block of my professional career, this seems as good a time as any to take existential stock in what it is that's become of my chosen vocation.

Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane brings his boundary - pushing brand of humour to the big screen for the first time as writer, director and voice...

«47 Ronin» is a different beast — the overages and need for reshoots seems to be down to a combatative first - time helmer (although «Drive» writer Hossein Amini was brought on relatively late to polish the script, as he did on «Snow White And The Huntsman»).

Few films in movie history — and maybe no other film by a first - time writer - director — proved to be the breakthrough moment for as many talents as a made - in - Baltimore comedy - drama called «Diner.»

Screenwriter John Romano served time as writer - producer on Hills Street Blues, L.A. Law and Monk, while director Brad Furman turned to crime in his first feature, The Take.

First - time feature writer - director Mike Cahill (who co-scripted with Marling) gives Another Earth a raw visual aesthetic in keeping with its low budget, but just as suitable to its raw feelings of loss, regret, and longing.

We also laud Pizzo for making the jump into the director's chair for the first time after three decades as a writer and producer with this year's «My All American.

As written by its trio of writers (with Jessica Goldberg joined by first time screenwriters Katie Nehara and Justin Shilton), its dramatic possibilities are severely downplayed, instead attempting to reflect meaning off intertextual echoes borrowed from Chekov's The Cherry Orchard (the play being staged within the film).

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

CLAY PIGEONS is a woefully uneven black comedy which sports a hip, young cast and a first - time writer as well as director.

Jordan Peele, the mastermind of «Get Out,» a social thriller about American racism, became the first African American to earn producer, director and writer nominations for a single film; the academy nominated a female cinematographer, «Mudbound's» Rachel Morrison, for the first time in its 90 - year history; and Greta Gerwig became just the fifth woman recognized as a director, feted for her wry, observational coming - of - age story «Lady Bird.»

We are then taken back in time to meet the writer as a young man (now Jude Law) who is hearing Zero's story first - hand in the dining hall of the Grand Budapest itself.

By the time Richard Gere as the aptly named «Guy» shows up as a divorced writer embarking on his first novel, the pot is already at the boil.

Out Joss - Whedoning Joss Whedon (right down to The Avengers director's signature circular pan around the team as they gather as a unit for the first time), the writer - director finally gives audiences what they wanted all along - for the Guardians of the Galaxy to move forward and not just try to recapture what came before.

It's sounding like first - time writer / director JC Chandor and producer Quinto are putting together a strong company, with meaty roles for all, and Bettany's character in particular sounds as if he could be cherishably assholeish.

The protagonist of Be My Cat: A Film for Anne is played by his namesake Adrian Țofei — and if Țofei serves as this film's director, writer, producer, DoP, editor, sound designer and production designer / manager, his character Adrian is also a first - time polyhyphenate filmmaker pitching his own movie called Be My Cat, and himself trying to get into character to play that film's creepy romantic lead.

The script for the musical drama, whose music and lyrics were written by Stephen Sondheim, as he composed the Broadway play, was penned by first - time feature film writer, James Lapine.

First - time writer - directors Geoff Moore and David Posamentier have amassed an impressive cast; Olivia Wilde in particular enjoys some lively chemistry with Rockwell as the dangerous, married woman who serves as Doug's guide to the dark side.

Academy Award winning screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, writer of such films as the excellent Steve Jobs, The Social Network, Moneyball, and the acclaimed television series The West Wing tries his hand for the first time at directing a script he adapted titled Molly's Game.

For 50 years, Clyde Gilmour, CM (1912 - 1997) was heard on CBC Radio, and as a writer at The Toronto Evening Telegram, he became the first full - time film critic at a Toronto newspaper.

First - time writer - director Billy Ray does a fine job keeping the intrigue level high, even when it's obvious where it's all leading, and ultimately gives us enough quiet time to think about the severity of the situation for all involved, including the journalism profession as a whole.

«Nothing about Greta seemed inexperienced for a first - time director,» Tracy Letts, the Pulitzer Prize - winning playwright and actor who plays Lady Bird's tenderhearted father, told V.F. «The work she's done in front of the camera and as a writer has really prepared her for this moment.

Moreover, first - time writer - director Sam de Jong aligns himself with Brian De Palma as one of few contemporary filmmakers whose work plays as if in direct dialogue with another film.

For the time being, I'm going to give in to my critical tendencies and claim Sky Captain as ultimately worthwhile for achieving everything that its first - time writer / director, Kerry Conran, set out to do.