Sentences with phrase «do young writers»

Just as young athletes and musicians need opportunities to play in public, so do young writers.

And what does a young writer learn if asked to generate an imaginative recipe, shopping list, guest list of a particular character in literature; for a particular occasion; with a particular emotional quality?

Not exact matches

William F. Buckley — especially the young Buckley of the 1951 God and Man at Yale, his first book — exploded on the American scene in much the same way these other Catholic writers did.

But we owe it to the young writer in Australia to do our best to bring the twentieth century to a close.

It has produced a number of amateur limericists («There was a young lady named Iris / Whose bosom could truly inspire us») and many low satirists who enjoyed doing vulgar things with Marlowe's «Come live with me and be my love» and some writers of Christmas and birthday verse.

Further to my own reply, I want to add how dishonest it is of the article writer, Steven Rose, to LINK his own opinions (that Wenger is doing a great job, as he thinks) with the attempt by young HECTOR BELLERIN TO STAND UP FOR HIS CLUB.

Mark Bittman, the esteemed food writer and home chef, recently said in a column in the New York Times that he never made separate meals for his kids when they were young, but allowed them something simple that they could make themselves — think a peanut butter sandwich, bowl of cereal or toast — if they did not want to eat what was cooked for dinner.

Stacey Ferguson, Justice Fergie [«Cheer for Your Cheerleaders»] Kristin Shaw, Two Cannoli [«You Know Your Child Best»] Aviva Goldfarb, The Scramble [«Always the Potential for Good»] Margo Porras, Nacho Mama [«Your Kids Will Do What You Do»] Emily McKhann, The Motherhood [«You Are Courageous»] Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner [«Savor Even the Hard Seconds»] Mary Ann Zoellner, producer at NBC's TODAY [«Play Like a Dad»] Lian Dolan, Oprah.com [«Life is Serious Enough»] Maria Bailey, Mom Talk Radio [«Take Time to Celebrate You»] Christie Matheson, Stroller Traffic [«Nothing Better Than Coming Home»] Carla Naumburg, Psychcentral.com [«You Are Not Your Thoughts»] Jenny Lee Sulpizio, JennyLeeSulpizio.com [«I'm Not Above Mom Jeans»] Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom [«Follow Your Own Inner Voice»] Missy Stevens, Wonder, Friend [«Nice Things Are Still Just Things»] Rachel Jankovic, Femina Girls [«It's Not Supposed to Be Easy»] Megan Brooks, Texas Health Moms [«The Love Language of Listening»] Carissa Rogers, Good N Crazy [«Here's to Embracing Change»] Dina Freeman, BabyCenter [«Learn to Swim in the Deep End»] Elizabeth Grant Thomas, Elizabethgrantthomas.com [«It's Easier to See Light in Darkness»] Wendy Hilton, Hip Homeschool Moms [«They Want to Make Us Happy»] Renée Schuls - Jacobson, Rasjacobson.com [«Beware of Emotional Vampires»] Shannon Lell, ShannonLell.com [«Don't Be Afraid to Sparkle»] Bunmi Laditan, Honest Toddler [«What Makes You a Writer»] Erin Dymoski, Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms [«What I'd Tell My Younger Self»] Lyss Stern, Divamoms.com [«Those Who Matter Don't Mind»] Debra Shigley, In Deb's Kitchen [«Feeling Bad?

Meanwhile, he adds, «we need to continue training young writers to look into scientific issues and hope that within 10 years, the online environment will mature enough so that viable and economically rewarding reporting can be done.»

► When he was a young researcher, Andrew Scott decided that he did not want a «regular job in academia,» so he followed his other passion and became a science writer.

Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood star as the ne'er - do - well son of a wealthy Southern family and the sheltered young woman he begins to fall for in Barefoot, a romantic comedy from director Andrew Fleming (Dick, Hamlet 2) and writer Stephen Zotnowski.

Has a great idea behind it - a young female soldier assigned guard duty at Guantanamo Bay forms a kinship with one of the incarcerated Muslims - but first - time writer - director Peter Sattler doesn't go anywhere interesting with that notion.

The comic story about a struggling young writer that when love continues to elude him, he turns to what he does best and simply writes the girl of his dreams into his life.

Like he did in the Thompson adaptation Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp plays the main character — in this case, a young writer who winds up drinking a lot and pondering his life at a dead - end newspaper in Puerto Rico.

«If Beale Street Could Talk» «Moonlight» director Barry Jenkins is bringing James Baldwin to the big screen; his next directorial effort will be an adaptation of the prolific writer's novel of the same name, which follows a young pregnant woman from Harlem as she fights to prove her fiancé's innocence in a crime he didn't commit.

This is turning into quite a month, with the emergence of two young female writer / directors — Margaret Betts («Novitiate») is the other — who might very well do great work for decades.

After making a striking debut with 2013's based - on - fact, tragically devastating drama Fruitvale Station and following that up with the stunning, Oscar - nominated Rocky spin - off Creed in 2015, the young writer / director was seemingly given the keys to the kingdom by Marvel as it pertained to Black Panther, the studio apparently feeling comfortable to let him do whatever he wanted with this story of an African superhero from the secluded fictionalized nation of Wakanda.

Considering that Smith claims that he made this film for teen girls, not for one moment does Yoga Hosers feel like anything other than a mid-40s writer / director shaking his fist at a younger phone - desperate generation, making inside jokes for the adults in the audience and lambasting the critics that have wronged him in the past.

Most of the main players — including the writer - director, cinematographer, composer and a handful of young unknown actors — have never done a feature film before.

From the writers of He's Just Not That Into You (both the script adaptations and the books they're based on), How to Be Single is another ensemble piece about what it's like out there on the dating scene as a young white person doing your best to find true love, or maybe just a good time.

Writer - director Burr Steers does indeed have a few good things in place at the film's outset, most notably a game young cast who generally hold up their end of the bargain.

Paul King, the writer and director of the new British family film «Paddington,» recalled the dread that came over people's faces when he mentioned he was doing a movie about the adorable young bear that has enchanted children for nearly six decades.

These are the avenues that could make Bleed more than just a standard boxing movie, but writer / director Ben Younger (Boiler Room) doesn't seem interested in real character development.

But discrimination didn't discourage him after the war from publishing with the help of «a talented young writer named Alex Haley» the debut issue of Essence Magazine, a short - lived precursor of the popular periodical for black females.

I thought the best thing I could do was finance some young writer - director - producer who I thought was good.

Mia Wasikowska plays Edith Cushing (yes, we see what you did there, Guillermo), an independent young writer in turn - of - the - century New England who allows herself to be wooed and won by Tom Hiddleston's dashing but down - at - heel English aristocrat Thomas Sharpe.

When writer / director Paul Thomas Anderson made his acclaimed drama «The Master» (2012), he originally intended to shoot roughly 20 % of his tale of an alienated young man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling under the spell of the charismatic leader of a new religious movement (Philip Seymour Hoffman) in 70 mm, but wound up shooting nearly the entire thing in the process (the first narrative film to do so since the aforementioned «Hamlet»).

Young Adult (2011)- Strongly gives the impression that writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman intended to take the cliches of romantic comedy and apply them to real life: What kind of person would do such things, and how would she be received?

«Tully» feels like a do - over for director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody's 2011 film, «Young Adult».

There is some actual meat to the scenes between the two, as, from his professor, the egotistical, young «smart aleck» learns about the balance of the author's voice with an actual story, the humility of rejection, and that being a writer means a devotion that doesn't always result in success.

OscarWrap: «I had a sense of wanting to make a story centered around a young woman that did not include whether she would end up with this boy as the central question,» says Oscar - nominated writer - director

Finally, writer - director Kate Barker - Froyland will make her feature film debut with «Song One,» also showing in the U.S. Dramatic Competition at Sundance and starring Anne Hathaway as another young woman with some growing up to do.

«Midnight Special» — It almost seems that young writer / director (gearing towards auteur) can do know wrong, as his entire catalog for me, thus far, has ranged from good to fantastic.

«The movie has an appealing cast including Anna Kendrick and Bridesmaids scene - stealer Rebel Wilson, and should do a decent job tapping in to the younger female audience that's made «Glee» such a hit,» BMO writer Ray Subers wrote before the movie's release.

Director Jason Reitman and writer Diablo Cody (the duo behind Juno and Young Adult) usually don't stray into cliched areas for their collaborations, so it would be nice if they could avoid that trope.

Having a fling with a younger, hotterartiste type may be a midlife - crisis cliché, but it's one that writer - director Jacobs invests with real flesh, blood and feeling: He takes these relationships as seriously as his characters do.

The BBC's Piers Wenger said that broadcasters need to create the right «ecosystem» for up - and - coming talent to develop and that the industry had been «skewed to big budgets» which don't work well for young writers.

A more demanding a mature work, «We Don't Live Here Anymore» could not have been written by a young writer.

Of the many thrills that come from interviewing creative people — variously, unknown, ascendant and at the top of their game — there's also the under - discussed flipside: talking with, 1) vapid young «actors» (line - reciters is more like it) who have neither a sense of film history nor an appreciation for their occupational good fortune and, 2) perfectly genial writers and directors who are nonetheless so relentlessly on script — occasionally reciting entire career - checking passages verbatim from press notes no doubt spit - polished into significance by some friendly faction in the dark wings — that you realize they actually have less summary insight or thoughts about several months or years of their own work than you do after 90 to 120 minutes with it.

The whole «two people walk around a city and fall in love» plot has been done — most notably by Richard Linklater with his «Before Sunrise» / «Before Sunset» / «Before Midnight» trilogy — but by making his young lovers into the future President and First Lady of the United States, writer - director Richard Tanne easily clears one of the biggest hurdles facing anyone trying to grab an audience.

The first (and only) feature directed by a promising young writer - director named Steve Gordon, who died the following year of a heart attack at age 44, the first Arthur was hardly a masterpiece, but it was a highly enjoyable comedy of manners done in a style that, even at the time, seemed quaintly old - fashioned.

It did with the Cody - penned, Reitman - directed «Young Adult», a biting comedy starring Theron as a vicious - but - unsuccessful writer.

Think of the greatest example of a young actor channeling Woody Allen, and that is essentially what Saoirse Ronan does for her writer / director in the new film, «Lady Bird.»

Writer - director Rob Meyer and co-writer Luke Matheny's «A Birder's Guider to Everything» likely won't incite a mainstream birding craze, but the pair does deliver a charming coming - of - age tale that'll at least let you enjoy it vicariously through the film's Young Birders Society.

And as the delicate script, by Six Feet Under writer Nancy Oliver, peels away Lars's bruised layers, Gosling gradually lets us in, just as he eventually begins to do with his family — his brother, Gus (Paul Schneider: The Family Stone, George Washington) and Gus's wife, Karin (Emily Mortimer: Dear Frankie, Young Adam)-- as well as the folk of their small town.

The perfect symbiosis between artists of different centuries; writer - director Whit Stillman brought Jane Austen's long - forgotten novella «Lady Susan» to the screen, building upon it in a way that reminded us that, with his tales of worldly-wise but heart - foolish young people, he's been doing Austen all along anyway.

Given seven days to come up with $ 260,000, Jim half - heartedly seeks the help of yet another low - life loan shark (John Goodman), but doesn't seem to mind very much whether he lives or dies - until he falls in love with one of his students, a beautiful young writer played by Brie Larson.

In 1984, I took my experience in photography and my love for film and began working with a team of other young writers doing film reviews and interviews.

Write regularly, write about what you know, imitate writers you admire, don't be afraid of rejection... — those tips and more from an experienced editor of fiction for young readers!

But I have never seen students write with as much enthusiasm as they do each November when my 8th - graders participate in the Young Writers Program of National Novel Writing Month (a.k.a. NaNoWriMo).