Sentences with phrase «better than short stories»

2 - Novels sell better than short stories.

The only thing that is better than a short story by Jennifer Weiner is a full book by Jenifer Weiner:)

Not exact matches

Long story short: With the biggest workload of his career, Bridges has been better and more efficient than ever.

To make a long story short m8 city iz way better than us do nt try to sugar coat it, u have to face reality when it comes to #AFC

Stage two was to widen diversity of supply to create new incentives for better local performance and more choice for patients - a success story in achieving the shortest ever waiting times including meeting our commitment to less than eighteen weeks from doctor's appointment to hospital treatment, and improving the management of NHS resources through foundation hospitals and the use of the private sector.

Long story short, I had a banner month and decided that the thing that would make me happier than anything else would be to treat my husband and two best friends to this once - in - a-lifetime experience.

It's a short story; quite amusing; and actually does a better job at proving my point than anything else I could think of.

Long story short, I ran across H and M and actually purchased a couple, surprisingly well fitted, jackets and matching dress and pants, all for less than $ 150.

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The story level surprisingly manages to pack in a good chunk of the Ghostbusters movie, but much of it is represented by short funny clips rather than gameplay.

With perhaps the best opening scene of 2015, Wild Tales starts things off with the shortest of its tales: passengers on a plane quickly discover inconceivable connections with each other, realizing it's more than just a coincidence just before the story comes to abrupt end.

There isn't enough story here to sustain a full - length feature, and Shyamalan probably would have been better served making this the first short in an anthology film (indeed, it is rather reminiscent of a «Twilight Zone» episode, «Five Characters in Search of an Exit»), rather than stretch it out with weaker side stories and needless characters.

Typically, however, those kinds of stories work best when they're short, and as the series has progressed, the games have become increasingly focused on these little vignettes to the point that they're generally more interesting than the main plot.

It's perhaps a contrived set - up (based on David Constantine's short story), but that's the last thing in Haigh's film that's anything less than utterly truthful, particularly when it comes to performances from the two leads that come close to being the best roles of their 50 year careers.

An impressive feat that the film was actually shot in just 21 days but I feel like it was better off as a short - story rather than a full length feature.

Yet this is only part of the story: Amazingly, research suggests that less than half of short - term absences are covered by a substitute, even when administrators are notified of the absence well in advance.

The short story: better than expected income tax revenue means more money in both the State's general fund and School Aid Fund for both the current year and next year.

HarperCollins India, which happens to be the second largest English Language publisher in the country (second to Penguin Random House), has turned twenty - one years old, and what better way to celebrate the occasion than by launching a collection of twenty - one short stories that has been appropriately named Harper 21.

Teens who've read his short story «The Fall of the House of Usher» and want more creepy old houses haunted by revenge - seeking, bloodsoaked - dress - wearing gals — but with less onerous vocabulary and more running jokes about Ghostbusters — can't do better than Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake.

I can certainly see how a short story could be a better reading experience than a 400 page novel.

She has published more than thirty short stories in Asimov's, Clarkesworld, Supersonic, Interzone, StarShipSofa, and Years Best SF 14, among other magazines and anthologies.

To answer your question, I haven't written any flash fiction, and all the short stories I've read are longer than this, but my attempts to emulate the genre have left me with new respect for those who write it and do it well.

Short story collections don't sell as well as novels, and that made it even harder for new authors to break in to short - story writing than into novel - length ficShort story collections don't sell as well as novels, and that made it even harder for new authors to break in to short - story writing than into novel - length ficshort - story writing than into novel - length fiction.

The Antioch Review rarely publishes more than three short stories per issue, but its editors are open to new as well as established writers.

This does not guarantee that your book or short story will be sold, of course, but a well - formatted manuscript is easier to read and has a better chance of rising above the slush pile than one that looks unprofessional.

I have also written a non-fiction book about writing short stories for children that is selling better than the stories at the moment.

Possibly a good deal for short stories or cheap books because you'll make more money from KU reads than you would regular sales.

The stories have been published in seven languages — one has sold more than 250,000 copies as an e-book («The Book Case» by Nelson DeMille)-- and another won the Edgar Allan Poe Award as the Best Short Story of the Year («The Caxton Lending Library and Book Depository» by John Connolly).

Long story short, it's good, but it would definitely be better if you had a 10» PlayBook rather than a 7» one.

Long story short, although investing in wine is not as profitable as common stocks, it's a great deal better than investing in long - term government bonds or in treasury bills.

Well, long story short, you need to know your YTW (yield to worst)-- which was much lower than my mortgage.

I enjoyed my time with it too the story was short and sweet, leaps and bounds better than the CoO one BUT..

- Game's length is short, even for a hack «n» slash title - Overall story is weaker than MGS games, and feels a little cut off from its roots - Variety of weapons could have been better

It's not perfect, but even with its short running time 400 Days crams in more well - rounded stories in the space of an hour than most triple - A developers could hope to achieve in eight.

It oozes charm and is beautifully made, and though the story does fall short in places, clocking in at less than 10 hours, the journey you create for yourself is really what makes this game so engaging for well over that amount of time.

- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects

The story mode is little more than window dressing, and even though the song list is extensive (with an imminent set of downloadable tunes on the way), it's still a rhythm game that's engaging in, at best, short bursts.

wtf, make a game where the ending is practically set up for DLC (single player story expanded) «until daviculus rises again another day / yadda yadda» that lingo tells me there SURELY woulda been add on content to atleast give a few more hours of single player gameplay since the single player game was SO SHORT to begin wtih... Also i find it BOGUS that they STILL HAVE NOT fixed the Multiplayer to wher eu can auto find a 4 player match instead of having to know someone with the game and invite them from ur friends list JUST to have a 2 vs 2 match, kinda like match making technology used in the stone age, common TIM U KNOW U CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!!

The saturated market for online shooters and the # 24.99 price tag for a game with no story or full single - player mode may leave this game with a short life - span but it does at least look a whole lot better than Alone in the Dark: Illumination, Atari's recent attempt at an online shooter.

At only about 40,000 words it is slightly shorter than the average visual novel, but the story is good and the price very reasonable.

If you are looking for a good story game to be played in short bursts, there is no better choice than Last Day of June.

Playing as some other characters, more like a short story with multiple endings than a full sized light novel, I think will add a lot of color and fun to the game as well.

If you are looking for a fast paced multiplayer shooter (faster than Call of Duty and Halo) and a great story (albeit short), I would highly suggest you pick up Titanfall 2 for a good time.

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Turned out my imagined «very short story» was a good deal more fun than the straightforward discrimination case this one turned out to be.

Here's a short look at the story so far, plus five factors that will determine if this year's patent reform effort will fare any better than 2011 and 2014 — and a prediction of how it will all turn out.

We've got a lot more on this in our review of the regular Pixel 2, but long story short, Google's Portrait mode seems to do better with a single camera than any company, even Apple, is capable of doing with two.

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