Sentences with phrase «be a writer not»

I am meant to be a writer not a maid!

Once again, Meyer shows he's a writer not to be missed.»

If so, what do you do to be a writer not a waiter?

Many authors have no interest in marketing their books - they are writers not publicists - but the sad fact is that if you have self - published your book you need to market it so that people will buy it.

Many authors have no interest in marketing their books - they are writers not publicists -...

It is also important to remember that you are a writer not a film director, so unless you can hire someone to make one for you, you need to do the hard work.

With Createspace I published the paperback versions of Writer's Doubt and The Audacity to be a Writer not just for free, I was ALSO able to add ALL of their extended distribution channels for free.

Not exact matches

The heart of exceptional mental toughness, these writers argue, isn't the ability to shut the world out, but a desire to engage it.

Translation scholar Peter Newmark explains that the translator has a duty to be faithful to the speaker or writer only in as far as their words do not conflict with material and moral facts as known - and they can express dissent if the text is likely to mislead the receiving audience.

I assumed my boss changed my role because he didn't think I had chops as a writer, was unhappy with my performance, or otherwise preferred my team members over me.

«Your brain is wired not only to figure out where you sit in the professional and social pecking order against others, but to reinforce your position in that pecking order,» says writer Steve Errey, who continues: «When you get wrapped up in establishing or maintaining status, the moment your place in the hierarchy drops you're going to feel pretty horrible... Don't get into the status game — there are no winners.»

You should do what's best for you — for example, Entrepreneur staff writer Nina Zipkin spent a month trying to go to bed and wake up earlier (up by 6:30 a.m.), and found it wasn't for her.

Don't be too quick to commit, but if you're happy with the work being delivered, then it will be better to work with those who can supply consistent and predictable results than to try to find new writers to fit a mold.

In it, the NYT writer says that he and the media are complicit in Trump's rise, in part because many mainstream outlets gave him so much free coverage during the race, even when he didn't deserve it.

There's a great line [from writer Robert Benchley]: «Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment.»

You can hardly find a content writer who is not familiar with it.

But many investors, advisers, and financial writers don't seem to be aware that the benefits of this widely accepted practise are often miniscule or even negative — as highlighted in analyses such as «Costly Harvest.»

It's not the kind of rallying cry that stirs the blood, but as Atlantic writer Rosie Gray said, we should probably just do our jobs — that is, report the facts, without fear or favor.

We have this feeling that since we are not good writers now, we can not become good writers.

Because as marketing strategist and writer Barry Feldman says, «If you're not experimenting with video, you're simply sitting on the sidelines watching the big game unfold.»

«I discovered that spending some extra moments in bed, centering myself toward the day, wasn't so much a habit as an essential way of being, and it made me much more productive as a thinker and writer,» she relates.

They do all this while dealing with temperamental writers who think their prose should never be changed and with even more temperamental editors who sincerely believe they are God's gift not only to journalism, but the universe.

Your content marketing team, right down to individual writers, can be held responsible for achieving not only a certain level of content output, but also a certain level of content performance.

You don't have to be a prolific writer to post articles on your blog.

But of course, ESPNW writer Kate Fagan pointed out: isn't that also inherently racist?

The model also wouldn't be limited by page length and it would give back more to writers, up to 50 percent.

They don't need to obsessively target the throng assembling daily to gobble up crime procedurals and zombies, and it's no coincidence that the programs selected to please a small, educated audiences are celebrated by the small, educated TV writers who ignore what everybody else is watching.

A New York Times writer explains to CNBC's «On the Money» why fixing Social Security is complex, and why solutions won't come easy.

The writers can't be blamed, since here in Canada the CRTC is also barking up that wrong tree.

POS, online and mobile payments are not only faster and more convenient, even the die hard paper check writers are beginning to prefer the ability to make payments with a couple of clicks.

We'll take a look at some of them, from renowned fashion designer Vera Wang, who didn't design her first dress until she was 40, to writer Harry Bernstein, who authored countless rejected books before getting his first hit at age 96.

A few minor issues, such as windows that resized too large for our tester, weren't enough to keep our writer from wanting this portable monitor from AOC for herself.

Holiday rightfully calls out the page - view - hungry game of blogging in which writers are forced to churn out a dozen attention - grabbing posts a day regardless of whether or not anything truly attention - grabbing is happening.

For writers and professional speakers like me, this means that if people are not disagreeing with you, walking out of your events, challenging your articles and ideas, you are playing too safe and not working at the edge.

If your post doesn't look instantly appealing, your readers will click away before ever seeing how great your content is,» warns writer Ash Read.

In ZeeMee's case, the reason other solutions had failed became obvious rather quickly: Artists, athletes and musicians aren't always great writers.

Sanders praised the writer of Toy Story to Catmull, but Catmull was keen to point out the the beloved film didn't spring fully formed from anyone's head.

On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a writer's room, and you don't know what to do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.

An increasing number of writers, editors, and creative professionals these days are not affiliated with a given company, but still need to share their work with different employers in an attractive — and trackable — manner.

When I set out my 2014 to - do list (I don't set goals), getting published as a writer was at the top of it (and I have no idea why because I had never written anything before).

Many of the young entrepreneurs I meet through my work as a writer, investor and entrepreneur aren't reaching their full potential.

We learned of the McKinsey survey through a post by Technorati writer Kaleel Sakakeeny, who adds that email's advantage holds «if your goal is to acquire customers, and not just share the latest family news or travel experience.»

Austin, who is currently working on a book tentatively titled Not for the Faint of Heart, which focuses on the challenges faced by those navigating the new economy, predicts that psychologists will be the next big class of business writers.

On the other hand, Scott Bernstein, an American mafia historian and true crime writer, said that it wouldn't be a stretch to link the murder with organized crime or mafia.

Like this writer, HBC is hoping for a night of selling shirts, not of broken store windows.

I didn't want to be that kind of writer.

Comey's «revenge tour» shows he is not the noble defender of justice and truth that he tries to portray himself as, said Daily Kos writer Joan McCarter.

The writer of the Fusion piece, Kevin Roose, admits he has been taking nootropics on and off for a month, yet he isn't totally sure they are working.

At first the writers weren't so keen.

Before she founded The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington was a journalist and writer, but she wasn't always successful.