Sentences with phrase «draft of the book began»

A: My first draft of the book began with what is now the concluding chapter — the one in which I discuss the courage necessary to face death.

Not exact matches

The Muslims still accept a book, which was drafted by a false prophet, called Muhammad, in the beginning of the dark age (around 600 a. D.).

Most sportsbooks will have a great degree of variance when they first post their futures, but there's usually more parity between the books after the draft as the market begins to normalize and outliers are bet out of the marketplace.

Before you even begin writing the final draft of your book, you should know how it begins and how it ends.

As usual, once I began drafting the books, my characters took on a life of their own.

Since then he's written getting on fifty books, almost all of them on a little old portable typewriter — one draft, to see what he's got, and what else he needs to know and so on; then a bit of research; then a complete rewrite, beginning to end; and then, if all's well, only a bit more tinkering.

Once I handed over the final draft to my editor, Jodi Lester, several other dreams began morphing from fantasy to reality: 1) the long - planned release of a professionally edited version of Watcher: Book I of The Chosen, and 2) publishing it with a new, professionally designed cover.

Nordland speaks about his birthplace and childhood home; parent's occupations; interests as a child; beginning interest in art history; first visits to the Los Angeles County Museum; relationship with Lincoln Kirstein; move to Yale; his book on Gaston Lachaise; attending the University of Southern California; meeting Man Ray; German sculpture; being drafted; first meeting with Richard Diebenkorn and working with Diebenkorn on a book; getting out of the Army; first paintings purchased; writing for «Frontier» magazine; the invitation to work at the Chouinard Art Institute; Institute teachers such as Richard Ruben, Robert Irwin, Don Graham; the founding of the California Institute of Arts (CalArts); classes and professors at CalArts; move to San Francisco in 1966; shows curated by Nordland on Gaston Lachaise, Fred Sommer, Peter Voulkos, Richard Diebenkorn, Burri, Caro, «African Art in Motion,» Fritz Gardner, Jack Jefferson, Ed Moses, Controversial Public Art; meeting and marrying Paula Prokopoff; and other job offerings from Florida, Georgia, and California.

Last year, as EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson submitted a draft proposal for coal ash rules to the White House Office of Management and Budget, coal lobbyists began booking potentially illegal meetings with the White House, en masse, so as to clog OMB's review of the EPA proposal.