Sentences with phrase «by a novice writer»

It used to be that crowd funding was frowned upon as a hit or miss, hail Mary by the novice writer to support their writing career.

This makes the book come across as if written by a novice writer.

Not exact matches

Adapted from the novel of the same name by crime - fiction writer Michael Connelly (this is the first of four books in the Haller series), Lawyer struggles to find its footing within a cliché storyline reworked by screenwriter John Romano (Nights in Rodanthe) and helmed by novice director Brad Furman, whose only other film is the straight - to - DVD armored - truck thriller The Take.

For a novice writer penetrating the world of book publication, it is not uncommon that dreams of being a Hemingway can easily be dashed by overly cautious book editors and publishers who are often more interested in selling books than immortalizing an author.

Many essay writers, especially novice writers, balk at the prospect and experience of having to redraft their essay (students writing theses get particularly discouraged by this process).

A Novice Writer's Guide to Rights: By Claire White, part of the «Writers Write» Website.

[The novice] thinks through an idea only until it is passably clear to him, since, for his purposes, it needn't be any clearer; he dispenses with transitions because it's enough that he knows how his ideas connect; he uses a private system — or no system — of punctuation; he doesn't trouble to define his terms because he understands perfectly well what he means by them; he writes page after page without bothering to vary his sentence structure; he leaves off page numbers and footnotes; he paragraphs only when the mood strikes him; he ends abruptly when he decides he's had enough; he neglects to proofread the final job because the writing is over... Given his total self - orientation, it's no wonder that he fails repeatedly as a writer.

This has given me a unique opportunity to read and evaluate countless resumes that were self - written or written by a friend, relative or co-worker and compare them to resumes written by highly skilled, semi-skilled and novice professional resume writers.