Sentences with phrase «even fiction stories»

Here at The Writers» Lounge, we want to pay it forward by providing a space for teen girls to share their inspirational stories, poetry, and even fiction stories that take us into new worlds.

Not exact matches

Biblical interpretation naturally absorbs a lot of ink; but «modern biblical scholars» will be surprised to learn that many of them regard miracle stories as fictions «designed to influence the common folk of an ancient and more simple time»: a view closer to old - fashioned anticlericalism of Thomas Paine's vintage than modern scholarship even of a radical stripe.

Even though Lewis stated that his stories were conceived as «holiday fiction» for the amusement of children (perhaps primarily for the amusement of the child in him), again we return to the question «Was there more to his stories than that?»

Lewis» Space Trilogy, consisting of the books Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength is a very good allagory on Christianity from a more «adult» viewpoint, without the obvious appeal to the young reader, even though they read like science fiction stories.

Kaku responds: Negative matter has been featured in many science fiction stories (since it has antigravity properties) and even cartoons.

Even for fiction stories that are highly unrealistic, youngsters generally favor realistic endings, say Boston University psychologist Melissa Kibbe and colleagues.

Virtual reality is still merely a computer dream — or nightmare — made famous by a series of science fiction stories by William Gibson, who deliberately never even tried to explain just what it was.

It's illegal anyway, even though it makes a good science - fiction story.»

I also like to watch historical fiction, or even historical non-fiction, but a good story from days gone by will capture my interest right away.

All films are a work of fiction, that much is obvious, and a lot of them are prone to exaggerations, even biographical films, but there's something just so heavy - handed about the way this film presents its story, its world and its characters that's really off - putting.

While I have no doubt that he believes this fiction (in spirit if not particulars, perhaps), Brashear's story — even in its big - screen dilution — is so manifestly about long - term, institutionalized racism, that such a comment appears patently naive, even disingenuous (the movie even makes the case, somewhat ironically, that the Navy's greatness is proved by the fact that someone so exceptional as Brashear would want to be part of it).

Like all great science fiction, MGS uses technology — even on a metanarrative level, since this is a story that only really could be told through a technological medium like video games — to ask us big, moral questions.

Released: October 6 Cast: Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Ana de Armas, Sylvia Hoeks Director: Denis Villeneuve (Arrival) Why it's great: Thirty - five years after Blade Runner hit theaters (and about 25 years after anyone recognized the movie as a seminal science - fiction), one of Hollywood's premiere directors returns to the futuristic world to tell a inverted story — about a Replicant grappling with his humanity — that's even more poignant.

In its swirl of violence and emotion, the new movie feels like a summation of those two most recent pictures, even as it braids together settings and story elements from Jia's earlier films «Unknown Pleasures» (2002) and «Still Life» (2008), his surreally tinged docu - fiction about the incalculable impact of the Three Gorges Dam project.

D.A.R.Y.L. is mostly recommended as an adolescent adventure, although it will entertain adults that are interested in 80s science fiction stories that have intriguing possibilities, even if they are never really explored sufficiently before becoming an action pic.

The original Blade Runner, released in 1982, was a groundbreaking film that masterfully weaved elements from science fiction, detective stories, and even philosophy.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

Because the preposterous life story of Tonya Harding — from 4 years old on to her celebrity boxing stint — is too unbelievable not to chuckle or even laugh hard at; it might as well be a fiction except it actually happened.

But even when the film begins flailing (literally so in an irritating Joan Cusack's case) through a Depression - set Nancy Drew adventure, the story never loses sight of its social conviction, even connecting Kit's fearsomeness to the heroes of youth fiction — from Robin Hood to the cow that jumped over the moon — and recognizing that hers is a high - wire show of moral exactitude every child should look up to.

True stories: even the best fiction offerings at the mountain - adjacent festival were based in reality

This book isn't particularly well - written or well - researched and another author might do a better job with the story, even as fiction.

It is the sort of epic science fiction story that it should be, even if it takes its time getting there and does not have the most charismatic lead performance on which to lean.

I know that time for fiction will be limited, so we'll have to be even more strategic about incorporating a poem, short story, or novel here and there.

If a story runs — even if it can only cough its way like an ill - used jalopy, to the corner of Flash Fiction Avenue and Finished Street — then I as a coach and the whole workshop group gets to move onto making it run better.

His story offers a thoughtful, restrained, and literary denouement but most fans of gothic fiction will want a few doors noisily slammed, a few bell towers to crumble to dust, and maybe even a reanimated corpse.

Even if you usually lean toward contemporary fiction, I'd still urge you to read this story, which is available online in its entirety.

When we live inside these stories for months, years even, it takes those features of fiction to a whole new level.

«I've always enjoyed writing and did a lot of fiction for fun, but never really thought it was going to be something professional, even though I've always loved a good story, whether it was reading or a movie,» says Graham.

I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.

Flash Fiction, sometimes called Short - Short Stories, is even shorter with a maximum of 800-1000 words.

Even so, while I don't remember a time when I didn't write — poems and stories as a child, a few semi-serious short fiction efforts in high school as part of an honors English course — it never occurred to me that I might follow in my mother's footsteps.

As a ghost writer, I've helped many people tell their stories, and whether it was a personal triumph from tragedy, family history, a «behind the scenes» account of events, or even a creative work of fiction, the words and the voice of the author always remain recognizable as their own.

Even though Girl in the Blue Coat was fiction, I wanted it to feel as true as any story I would write in my journalism career.

While their efforts to assimilate and blend into the American landscape and even find love are familiar to immigrant fiction fans, the fantasy dials this story up to 11.

Among these amazing stories are heart - pounding science fiction fairytale retellings like CINDER by Marissa Meyer; hilarious adventure flicks such as MY LADY JANE by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows; contemporary romances like THE PRINCESS DIARIES by Meg Cabot and even nonfiction, with VICTORIA: Portrait of a Queen by Catherine Reef.

These images make the story feel even more real — blurring the line between fiction and reality.

Even if you're focused on writing a novel, writing short stories can be a wonderful creativity tool to help you strengthen elements of your fiction, experiment with characters and simply stay loose.

The Observations is a brilliantly original, endlessly intriguing story of one woman's journey from a difficult past into an even more disturbing present, narrated by one of the most vividly imagined heroines in recent fiction.

I've always preferred to read and write novel - length fiction, but the ebook has brought back the short story, the novella, and the serial (among other things), story formats that were never that practical outside of magazines (and even then, it had been a while since you saw many novellas and serials).

My hope is that using «the Luminate» will add to the fantasy feel of my story and allow my protagonist's faith journey to be meaningful to all readers, perhaps even those who might otherwise steer clear of Christian fiction.

But the penny only dropped for me on evergreen potential in early 2013 when I realized that fiction doesn't age, and the stories you write today can keep selling for the rest of your life and even after you die.

I'd experimented with different kinds of stories, done some prose and those other «rhyme - y kind» of poems, and for a period of time even tried to write as short a story as possible... and this was before anything called «flash fiction.»

Even the most gruesome crime fiction aims to pass the time by supplying an engrossing story and perhaps a sense of schadenfreude.

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 fiction.

But if your story doesn't have an ending — if, say, you find you've written a scene that could be part of a longer story, or even part of a novel — then it's not technically flash fiction.

Flash Fiction stories are considered to be of a length of up to 300 words by some writers whereas others consider even a 1000 word story as flash fFiction stories are considered to be of a length of up to 300 words by some writers whereas others consider even a 1000 word story as flash fictionfiction.

Once again definitions vary, but generally, micro fiction is any story told in 300 words or less, and could even be as short as a few words.

Definitions can vary depending on the market, but generally, complete stories of fewer than 1,500, 1,000, 500 or even 300 words can be classified as flash fiction.

There was such a wide range of stories, from modern day tales to historical fiction, and even one from the perspective of the wagon itself.

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