Sentences with phrase «beginning writers like»

Sadly, or thankfully, except for beginning writers like himself, he doesn't touch what many writers are actually making.

Not exact matches

From its beginnings, it's been a place where narrative artists — writers, filmmakers and the like — welcome the discipline of structure in their work lives, and build a community of peers.

Like any author worth his salt, the writer in Jeremiah begins by stating the subject of the passage: «This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon... «(Jeremiah 29:4).

Yet like the slight things left by other major writers, these brief prayers and ruminations cast fresh light on O'Connor's literary vision as it was just beginning to develop.

Christian theology, on the other hand, begins with Jews like Jesus and Paul and the Gospel - writers reading the same Scriptures Sacks urges us to reread, drawing on the same typologies.

I began meeting moms like myself, skilled writers carving out a living while remaining at home with their children.

But it is the period from the 1870s when the first «descriptive writers» like Henry Lucy began to convey the tone and feeling of debates and comment on the personalities and foibles of MPs that we see the origins of the parliamentary sketchwriter as compared with the political reporter.

Writers began to ponder questions like «What does it mean to be Swedish?»

Stock's vision of the future overlaps to a degree with that of science fiction writers like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, particularly where biology and technology begin to merge.

I could begin by telling you where I have been and who I have taught but ultimately I am just like you... doin» my best as a yoga teacher, writer and full time co-creator since 2003.

The film, which hits theaters February 16, is a modern twist on a romantic comedy (boy and girl meet, fall in love, but then break up, and are suddenly reunited, ending up in that awkward stage where they have to debate whether to wave hello while taking out the trash), but it's also a particularly female spin on the coming of age story, the likes of which we're only beginning to see onscreen as more women carve out a place for themselves in writer's rooms and director's chairs.

Thus begins a darkly comic homicidal trail, dropped like lethal bread crumbs, by writer - director Peter Berg in this audacious, sure - handed motion picture debut.

A free - agent star by the end of the 1950s, he began one of his two most auspicious creative collaborations when writer / director Billy Wilder tapped him to play one of the cross-dressing musicians in the gender - tweaking comic classic Some Like It Hot (1959).

Then, anti Communist feelings begin to stir in the country, fed by the likes of gossip writer Hedda Hopper (Helen Mirren) and actor John Wayne (David James Elliott), eventually leading to Trumbo being part of the so called «Hollywood Ten» brought before Congress to testify about their involvement in Communist activities.

As the writer uncovers facts that corroborate these suspicions, he begins to fear he might be killed, just like the man who worked on the memoirs before him.

It begins to feel like Old Home Week in Telluride: when I look up Andrew Haigh's «Lean on Pete,» I remember that its star, Travis Fimmel, appeared in «Maggie's Plan,» directed by Rebecca Miller (here with «Arthur Miller: Writer»), which co-starred Ethan Hawke (who's in «First Reformed») and Greta Gerwig, who directs, in «Lady Bird,» Saiorse Ronan, who is one of the voice actors in Loving Vincent.

Writer - director Richard Linklater is mostly known for his original and personal films like Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, and the novennial European romance series that began with Before Sunrise.

A fulfilling serving of bonus features begins with the 15 - minute featurette «Just Like Family: The Making of Dan in Real Life», a touchy - feely look at production that sends much praise writer - director Peter Hedges» way.

King and his alternative persona Richard Bachman (responsible for schlockier novels like The Running Man) here find fictional proxies in the form of novelist Thad Beaumont (Timothy Hutton), tormented by his violent alter ego George Stark, a leather - clad creep who begins violently murdering various of the writer's associates.

The film began production in New York in November, 2016, right after the presidential election, and the screenplay (by «Sex and the City» writer Jenny Bicks and «Dreamgirls» director Bill Condon) contains many images and situations that feel like direct challenges to Trump - style politics of resentment.

Her, Spike Jonze's latest window into his brilliant, hyperactive imagination, follows a sad - sack writer named Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) as he begins to fall for an operating system named Samantha (voiced by Scarlett Johansson), something like a super-advanced version of «Siri» tailored to be Theodore's perfect companion.

Bresson, as many writers have noted, looked for spiritual grace in the most misbegotten places and creatures, but, for all its pleasant side trips, War Horse begins as an archetypal Spielberg film, and ends like one, too: the affirmation of a preordained connection between two kindred souls, and the cathartic relief produced by a last - moment rescue.

When: June 19th Why: Mark Ruffalo is hands - down one of the best actors working today, but while he's earned great reviews for his performance in writer Maya Forbes» directorial debut, his character feels a little too close to the eccentric fathers he's played over the past few years, especially in fellow indies like «The Kids Are All Right» and «Begin Again.»

In the 1970s and 1980s, as trends like these began to arouse widespread commentary, conservative writers such as Charles Murray blamed public welfare programs for undermining black family life in the U.S..

Just as more and more traditional readers... those «but I love the feel and smell of my real books» readers (like my sister) are dipping a toe into the digital waters, those who have been on the e-cutting edge for awhile are beginning to find some innovative ways to take advantage of the relative low - entry costs of digital to open new avenues to writers.

From the very beginning the personalities of the characters and the texture of the book's settings leap out from the pages and like the rest of the trilogy, McCarthy hits his stride cleanly and effortlessly from the very beginning and this author easily eclipses (for me anyway) many more fashionable and better known writers.

Just before we begin I'd like to correct you in that I am not an indie writer nor do I intend to be, I have actually decided that traditional publishing routes are the right option for me.

For independent writers trying to attract attention, fighting through the noise pollution generated by content farms may seem impossible, and all the more so as content farms begin to pollute e-book retailers like Amazon.

But if, like most writers, you have a day - job to pay the bills and provide affordable health insurance (at least until those Nook and Kindle sales begin to whir), whether to tell people at your day - job that you write on the side is something we all have to face.

Beginning writers tend to conjure up nostalgic writer fantasies like Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris reveries and ignore the boring -LSB-...]

«Some of the most notable fantasy authors create powerful reads with slower beginnings that lead up to a crescendo of gripping action — such as this story... Much like the acclaimed fantasy writer Patrick Rothfuss's productions, In the Company of the Dead evolves slowly for the first few chapters... perfect for the fantasy fan seeking depth, who appreciates a slow build - up before the fiery action begins.

I mean, I don't see writers as teachers because books are kind of shared items because when writers write them, they are hardly anything and when people start to read them, they begin to change and grow and like that.

Readers like it as a useful resource from a source they begin to know and trust, and I get to know a lot of writers whose friendships, even if many of them are entirely electronic, mean a great deal to me.

And beginning indie writers repeat this over and over like it's a bad chant from a long lost tribe of magic aliens.

Some are other writers like us, at the beginning of their careers.

In the beginning (I love starting a sentence like that), all writers struggled over simple sentences, meaning back in the early days of learning how to talk and write as kids, writing was hard for all of us.

A freelance writer and photographer for ten years, I worked with local, regional and even national magazines, then like my corporate career, the market began shifting.

(This path seldom leads to a decent sale or decent writing, but most beginning writers still follow this path like blind sheep.)

From the very beginning, we discussed my goals as a writer, and the sorts of books I like to write.

BM: Like most writers, it begins with an idea, a story playing in your head, or voices acting out a scene.

The stalled writer, the one who is in love with beginnings, says, «I would like to be able to write a book that is only an incipit, that maintains for its whole duration the potentiality of the beginning, the expectation still not focused on an object.»

I'm going to share with my trade published friends who ask about SPing, because I don't know what it's like to make that decision — I'm the other side of the coin, the writer who SPed from the very beginning.

This path seldom leads to a decent sale or decent writing, but most beginning writers still follow this path like blind sheep.

Now that the traditional publishing industry is beginning to embrace self - published authors, seeing them as a talent pool of writers who come complete with their own firmly established followings and fan bases, it almost feels like the self - published authors want nothing to do with the industry they once couldn't join.

And most beginning writers would tell me that writing a series like Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing would kill my career because I have said so many things that are against «common stupidity... I mean knowledge.»

Like most beginning writers, they were rejected by book agents.

All of our writers begin each order from scratch, starting with the research, just like you would have done.

I'm beginning to believe that if you're a writer of picture books and want to self - publish a quality book, you need an illustrator, a service or individual to format the book for publishing, and a publishing company, like Createspace or IngramSpark to turn it into a physical book or e-book.

For writers who are just beginning, it can feel like you're coming really late to a party that's been going on for years — and that's in essence exactly what's happening.

And some beginning writers in genre fiction (like romance) might have luck in digital - first publishing houses to help build their credentials and readership.