Sentences with phrase «at least a short story»

Or at least some short stories.

Agents will represent poets as long as they're also novelists, or at least short story writers.

For fiction, you need something — at least a short story, to start building a list.

Not exact matches

(If you have a subscription to The Work of the People, you can watch this short film of me telling that story in its entirety but here's a snippet at least.)

Long story short, we drove aimlessly around Michigan for a good 10 hours, not getting anywhere, until finally it is snowing so hard that the snow was at least 6 - inches deep on the interstate and we could barely see our own headlights let alone the taillights of the car in front of us.

I understand I'm playing with small samples here, but it does look as if, at least in the short term, Story has made adjustments and is putting the ball in play a lot more.

This Benz story is yet to be confirmed, at least there's not a history of falling short by refusing to pay the rate.

If you haven't read «Cat Person» yet — Kristen Roupenian's short story in the New Yorker of an ill - fated relationship (aka an uncomfortable one - night stand) between Margot, a 20 - year old college student, and Robert, a 34 - year - old man whom she met at the movie theater where she works — I'm betting you have at least heard of -LSB-...]

When I left my job to be a SAHM I had big plans for how much more reading I was going to get done, what new exercise routines I would pick up and how I would devote at least an hour a day to working on short stories or a novel.

To make a long story short, the use of words like «history» or «revolution» began to change at the end of the 18th century (at least in Germany) and the meaning of these words revealed a new outlook, or a new time (Neuzeit)-- what he calls «historical time».

Long story short, if you must drink bulletproof coffee, at the very least, wait until after a protein rich breakfast to do it!

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

Long story short and this topic of neurotransmitters tends to get rather complicated, if you must drink coffee, then at the very least, wait until after breakfast to do it!

It's a book of short stories, so I can at least get through a few stories from start to end and feel rather good about myself for doing so!

It's a little too short, and sometimes the gameplay is too basic in to serve the story's advancement, but A Way Out is one of those gaming experiences you NEED to try at least once.

The story is very short leaving you whining for more, but at least the developer added some cool other ideas.

In extending a short story to feature length without embellishing it — at least in the plotting — Loktev suffuses the film with the kind of intimate, microscopic detail and observation that's more common to literature than cinema.

Shot in black - and - white, with a spare, minimal production design making it an expressionist piece projecting the barren interiors of its broken characters, Nebraska, though not the adaptation of the identically - named collection of Ron Hansen short stories I initially hoped it was, at least possesses the same wintry, intellectual mien.

Brooke, as played by Greta Gerwig in director Noah Baumbach's brilliant indie screwball comedy, Mistress America, is also a freelance interior decorator of at least one hip laser hair removal center waiting room, a plagiarized T - shirt designer, a writer of stories — not short stories, though — an aspiring SAT tutor, and maybe a cabaret singer too, sometimes.

What plot there is centres on Brooke's efforts to launch a restaurant - community centre - store called Mom's and Tracy's clandestine use of Brooke as a character in a short story, but for the first half at least we just hang out with the two girls as Tracy comes under the thrall of Brooke.

French character actors Matthias Schoenaerts, Bouli Lanners and Celine Sallette co-star and the story is rumored to be based, at least in part, around one of the shorts about a marine park Orca trainer who loses his leg and then joins Unlimbited Potential, a support group made of addict - amputees.

At least with this new home video release, there is a short story called The Legend of Mordu which attempt to better explain the bear predicament.

As I say in my new book, Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Subject Areas (due out in April), a valuable way the students show me their research is by providing at least 10 hyperlinks throughout their essays, regardless of whether they are writing short stories or argumentation essays.

Goldrick - Rab uses their stories to argue that financial aid falls far short of what students need and recommends that lawmakers spend at least $ 70 to $ 100 billion more per year to fully cover tuition at public colleges.

This story of students losing a two weeks of school because they were given the wrong test — reportedly in at least several Seattle schools — is nothing short of scandalous.

Moreover, the much - maligned minivan category is seeing at least a short - term spike in demand, since when this story went to press, the segment was enjoying an ongoing streak of five straight months of growth.

I have, at least, brought out the third novel in my Lycopolis trilogy, and got a short story and a novella nearly ready to go as freebies — so hopefully by the end of 2018, I'll have plenty of marketing progress to share with you.

So even if you're doing just one chapter or a short story, the table of contents is best practice and more important, required, in at least some ebook platforms.

Using the online submission system, submit a collection of short stories or flash fiction, a novella, or a novel of at least 100 pages with a $ 25 entry fee by June 15.

Manuscripts must include at least three short stories and be no less than 98 pages.

He is the author of three novels and a collection of short stories; his work has been translated into at least 14 languages.

Moreover, even novels and short stories typically have at least cover images.

RMFW members in good standing who have independently published one or more novel - length book (s) of fiction, or equivalent in fictional short stories, and who have income of at least $ 250 for both print and digital versions of the book (s).

The short story is that I simply added the word «of» to the name and now the name of my blog, at least today as I'm writing this, is a more grammatically - correct, and still keyword - filled: CEO of Self Publishing Start - Up OutskirtsPress.com.

I have 8 versions of my short story anthology's cover: one thumbnail (60px tall), one small version (144px), four of varying sizes for others» websites (200px, 210px, 216px, and 423px), the ebook cover itself (823px), and a 300 dpi version for possible posters and brochures.This is overkill, but you see where having at least a thumbnail, small, medium, and large versions might help.

Publish something every month (at least 12 publications)-- most of these will probably be short stories or flash fiction anthologies, but I also intend to be working on some longer - format fiction, and probably some non-fiction too.

fiction collections of at least 150 pages comprised either entirely of short stories or one novella along with short stories

If the series ends up with 4 novels and 10 short stories, then the oldest one will be updated at least 13 times, and that's a GOOD thing.

So it might be time for a gut check and ramp up an ambitious New Year's Resolution to finish at least a couple novels and a bucket of short stories this year.

These are opportunities I believe are at least worth considering for your short story submissions (and in many cases poetry and creative nonfiction).

When I'm not doing my own writing I work with kids ages 8 - 18 on everything from short stories to college essays, and at least once a week something happens that takes my breath away.

And now that KU is blind to the length of your story, you're free to craft it however you like... and given that readers seem to love short stories and serials (at least in romance, but increasingly in other genres), I don't expect those forms to go away.

Collectively, we have 150 (and counting) published novels from major New York publishing houses, and at least that many short stories, dating from the mid 1970s.

The manuscript must be a collection of short stories in English of at least 150 word - processed, double - spaced pages.

But Herman says when he was done, he realized he had more than enough material for at least another story, and possibly a short book.

Before this podcast, I had five goals for 2017: 1) publish two more books in the current series I'm working on — coming out in February and September, 2) begin collecting short stories I've written that currently as sitting dormant on my blog into 5 story anthologies and publishing them — I'd like to get two out this year, 3) edit at least three manuscripts people sent me because I hate saying «no» but can't say «yes» to everything, 4) up my personal reading to two books a month, and 5) get back into the habit of writing a short story a week — I stopped this in September when work got crazy.

I ask that because, of course, having a short story bought would mean I'm writing at least passable fiction, and that my writing would probably be read by a broader audience.

I originally priced my longer short stories of say 6000 words at $ 3.99 and my novel at 11.99 and my novella at 4.99, but Kindle changed these prices by adding on at least $ 2 to each price tag.

And I expect to have at least one more short story up before The Detachment is itself available — hopefully more.

One of the more famous names, at least to yuri fans, was «Morinaga Milk», a mangaka who had a short yuri series running in Ichijinsha's Comic Yuri Hime, a magazine devoted to «Girls» Love» manga, usually of the Story A variety (I like this girl, hey she likes me back, look we like each other) as mentioned several times by Erica Friedman on her Okazu site.