Sentences with phrase «building story worlds»

details expert methods for building story worlds, characters, and plots, understanding your market (right down to your ideal reader), using the best tools possible to capture your draft, and explains proven best practices for editing.
It details expert methods for building story worlds, characters, and plots, understanding your market (right down to your ideal reader), using the best tools possible to capture your draft, and explains proven best practices for editing.

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I don't want public attention because I don't want the story to be about me... I want it to be about what the US government is doing... I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building.
The 58 - story building is on Fifth Avenue, one of the busiest commercial corridors in the world.
Founders told the unique stories of what inspired them to build something from scratch, despite the tremendous odds stacked against them, while serving samples of dishes enjoyed around the world.
«For our purposes, we have a character that's natural at building empathy, whose story inspires passion and understanding about the world and a desire to help and participate,» Grenier says.
In its heyday in the 1970s, the company forever changed Chicago's skyline by building the iconic, 110 - story Sears Tower, which held the record for the tallest building in the world for more than 25 years.
building a second story on the house to accommodate that family, postgraduate education and one day, a world trip to visit relatives around the globe.
His story about how he made Peerless Clothing into a world leader in the production of men's suits is a straight - ahead account of savvy business practice, exceedingly hard work, and fearlessness in the face of risk - both a valuable document for anyone building a company who wants to know how high - wire entrepreneurship works, and an important contribution to the history of garment manufacturing in Montreal.»
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m. Networking Breakfast in Hotel Courtyard 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Tom Russo, Patner, Gardner, Russo & Gardner [USA] Topic: «Be Right Once» 9:15 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Justin Fuller, CFA, Stock Analyst, Morningstar [USA] Topic: «Morningstar's Ultimate Stock Picker's Portfolio» 10:15 a.m. - 11:00 p.m. Megh Manseta, Investor, Manseta Family Office [India] Topic: «Buffett Munger Principles in Emerging Markets: An Indian Perspective» 11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Charles Mizrahi, Managing Partner, CGM Partners Fund LP, Author, Getting Started in Value Investing & Editor, Hidden Value Alert [USA] Topic: «How To Lose $ 1 Million By Investing In Stocks» 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m. Networking Lunch - Executive Deli Sandwiches in Hotel Courtyard (sponsored by Morningstar) 1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Piet Viljoen, Portfolio Manager, RE-CM [South Africa] Topic: «Compounding: Your Only Friend in the Investing World» 2:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Sees Chocolate Break 2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Todd Green, Portfolio Manager, First Manhattan [USA] Topic: «Reflections on 25 Years of Investing» 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Al Ueltschi, Founder & Chairman, FlightSafety, Warren Buffett CEO Topic: «Building a Business Warren Buffett Would Buy: The Story of FlightSafety» [watch video interview] 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Optional Tour: Shuttle bus from Ayres Hotel LAX to FlightSafety Training Center ($ 45 shuttle and BBQ buffet dinner fee per person) 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Buffet Dinner and Tour of FlightSafety 9:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Shuttle bus from FlightSafety to Ayres Hotel LAX
Stephen Despite having the Jewish scriptures to use as a guide in creating Jesus's story, the Gospel writers could not invent him building the Third Temple (Ezekiel 37:26 - 28), gathering all Jews back to the Land of Israel (Isaiah 43:5 - 6), ushering in an era of world peace, and end all hatred, oppression, suffering and disease (Isaiah 2:4), or spread universal knowledge of the God of Israel, which will unite humanity as one (Zechariah 14:9).
The Flood story is about how difficult it is in this world to remain faithful to God as the world carries on in its own desires and mocks Noah over 120 years while building a boat in a desert that has never seen rain.
Since the story as seems to be bigger than just «Osama being used and abused» but it was always every crime made by inelegance or the crime world was tagged to him being behind it... even those who wanted to collect the insurance of their buildings the blew them up and tagged it to the late, even those who enjoyed the fluctuations of shares prices have made their moves to effect the same and tagging it to the late... It is not that i know but rather being every thing is possible to fabricate... What ever the case might be or made done, we say; Believers: The Ultimate Victors [2:216] Fighting may be imposed on you, even though you dislike it.
This hope - filled story of a Christian Korean American doctor who built and staffed a hospital in Pyongyang offers proof that Christians can still significantly impact the people of the world's most restricted country.
The publisher's promotional material appears to build on the expectations associated with this sort of story, describing Mariette in Ecstasy as «a powerful portrayal of the disturbing world beneath the placid daily life of an American convent.»
Great Pan, the first - century story said, is dead, and the world freed of its despots, so as to permit the building of the New Jerusalem, the new and better world.
Within the Protestant ecclesiastical scene in California there are not many contrasts more colorful than that between Berkeley and Orange County: the University of California and Disneyland, an adult class using Bread for the World material and one deep into the Bethel Bible Series, a Georgian church building hosting the Earl Lectures (Tillich, Niebuhr, Bennett, Marty, Lehman et al.) and a 14 - story Tower of Hope hosting preachers and teachers of «possibility thinking.»
He made some modifications and added to the book of Ether, in which is told the story of the Jaredites, who at the time of the building of the Tower of Babel migrated to the Western world.
As for the media's assumption that money can buy anything, Jesus tells the story of the wealthy farmer who decided to build a bigger barn, but then suddenly died, so Jesus asks, «What does one gain by winning the whole world at the cost of one's true self?»
that is about asking why the aztecs and the egyptians built pyramids; story telling was another means of passing information so as humans migrated all over the world our stories got more complex.
Set in the schlock district of rakishly decorated motels built in the 1950s to house Disney World around Orlando, and Kissimmee, Florida, the story follows families who have fallen below the minimum score to rent an apartment and are stuck in a cycle of poverty that includes living indefinitely in cheap rent - by - the - night rooms that have long since fallen out of favor with tourists.
N., an interior design ace, often starts with a colour story and builds a whole world around it.
Subscribe to the Afternoon Brief Trending Story: China Is Building a Disney World for Wine At Chateau Changyu Reina, honey - colored brick towers enclose wide cobbled courtyards, and vast, wood - beamed halls look as if they are prepared to host an imminent medieval banquet... Today's News: Grapevine Killing Insect Could Threaten Napa Wine Industry: Agriculture Commissioner -LSB-...]
Our mission is to preserve and share humanity's stories in order to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world.
We will build fairy houses, go on nature walks, engage in imaginative play and listen to gnome and fairy stories from around the world.
With this, you can teach your child morals, build up their self - esteem, how to understand and respect elders, help them better understand this world, allow them to learn the history of the world, and most importantly, the story of your own ancestors.
American Media Inc, which owns the National Enquirer, reportedly gave Dino Sajudin, the ex-doorman of one of Trump's buildings, $ 30,000 for a story about the now - president fathering a love child with a Trump World Tower employee, and then never ran with it.
In a Monday interview with North Country Public Radio, Funiciello said he's a «questioner» of the circumstances that led to collapse of the World Trade Center buildings on 9/11, and that «in no way satisfied with the official story that we've been told over and over again.»
His second book, Victoria Cross Heroes was published in hardback in November 2006 and tells the story of how Lord Ashcroft built up the world's largest collection of VCs over the past 22 years.
Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer voiced support for a proposed 15 - story mosque and community center, after Community Board 1 approved the project's proposal to build on a site adjacent to the World Trade Center last night.
Doing so badly he had to lay off three girls... «Park Avenue,» a doc based on the best seller «740 Park: The Story of the World's Richest Apartment Building» gets a PBS airing Nov. 12... To hustle their nearly $ 4 mil advance for the new book by HBO «Girls» creator Lena Dunham, Random House figures they must sell 1 million copies.
Silverstein said he hopes to finish building his remaining office towers — the 79 - story 2 World Trade Center and the 71 - story 3 World Trade Center — by 2016.
Participants heard how to get stories into the media, research the dodgy deals, follow the money and build a movement, with workshops led by experts from Focus E15 mums, UK Uncut, Spinwatch, World Development Movement and others.
These stories remind us that we must remember the tragedies of WWII so as not to repeat those events; however, we must also remember and honor the silent heroes of WWII upon whose paths we must continue to follow in order to build tolerant and just communities in our districts, in the Great State of New York, and all over the world
The buildings included Liberty Plaza, a 45 - story residential tower near the World Trade Center site.
«Our results are significant because they clearly show that books of all kinds can build children's knowledge about the world, including picture book stories,» said Professor O'Neill.
His story «The Machine That Would Predict the Future» explores the promise of the FuturICT project, an attempt to build a computer model of all the social, economic, ecological and scientific factors at play in the world.
Using data from the GPS stations, an accelerometer that measures ground motion in Kathmandu, data from seismological stations around the world, and radar images collected by orbiting satellites, an international team of scientists led by Caltech has pieced together the first complete account of what physically happened during the Gorkha earthquake — a picture that explains how the large earthquake wound up leaving the majority of low - story buildings unscathed while devastating some treasured taller structures.
The center, a five - story, 237,000 - square - foot building that opened in 2012, brings under one roof several of the world's leading clinical and basic research programs in a collaborative environment.
Native Hawaiians say it's sacred ground, while astronomers say it's the best place in the world to build a massive, 18 - story telescope.
The characters are amazing, the story outstanding, and the world building phenomenal.
His aim is to take the commodification out of fashion and create clothes that, like Band of Outsiders strived to do, are meant to be lived in: «I started thinking about brands and how the greatest of brands can actually be something meaningful, how they can create a sense of community and commonality, entertain us and tell stories and help us escape — and so I started thinking about this idea of utopia, building a perfect world from scratch.»
Thus, one couple's story of self - discovery and belief in a conscious approach to relationship - building became an inspiration for millions of couples around the world to revisit (and sometimes rebuild) their own relationships by asking questions and starting conversations they otherwise might never have.
It's an entire process of building and illustrating a world, finding motivations, weaving stories Learn how to make anything with Instructables.
This is the sort of story that relishes in building its world.
This inspiring sports drama is the true story of Scottish bicyclist Graeme Obree, who broke the world one - hour cycling record in 1993 on a bicycle he designed and built from scrap metal and washing machine parts.
Guacamelee builds upon the classic open - world Metroid - vania style of games, by adding a strong melee combat component, a new dimension switching mechanic, and cooperative same - screen multiplayer for the entire story.
The combat is a chore as the enemies have hitboxes larger than your dodge rolls meaning you will get hit EVERY TIME, the weapons are about as useful as a toothpick against a sword unless you're playing on super easy mode, the story is an illogical mess with some interesting world building mechanics, the characters are about as deep as a kiddy pool in a hotel resort, and the main character never shuts the hell up.
Despite the fact that all Alexander has to do is grow up and take over the world, the chronology is all out of sequence, and this prevents the story from building momentum.
If Polyarc can follow through with their (apparent) plans for timely episodic installments to the world of Moss, and continue building on this foundation, this could be the start of a world you'll look forward to losing yourself in any time there's a new story to be told.
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