Sentences with phrase «few pages of your novel»

What really struck me from reading a few pages of the novel was that it was * exactly * the stererotype of a poorly - written self - published screed.

Within the first few pages of a novel, you need to make it impossible for readers to put your book down.

How could I create a cozy little reading nook where I could enjoy a quick cup of tea and a few pages of a novel while the kids are at school?

Not exact matches

Or if I'm mentally tired from doing a difficult task requiring a lot of concentration, I might relax my mind by reading a few pages from a novel.

We can hope, though, that in the light of the whole, this first volume will turn out to look like the first few hundred pages of a Russian novel in which massive skill is required just to get all the characters properly on stage.

All great authors know that a killer first line is almost more important than the first few pages, and authors put in hours of work just to get Following is a list of the 100 best first lines from novels, as decided by the American Book Review, a nonprofit journal published at the Unit

The novel has a famous coup, in which McEwan telescopes the rest of Edward's life into just a few pages — a brisk parade of inconsequence that allows you to understand how important that single evening had been.

An incredible story, with such expertly executed plot reveals, twists and turns that, like the very best of page turning novels, kept me sat in front of my TV for its final few hours as I just had to know what happened next.

Set in 1987, the first few pages of Jason Rekulak's debut novel are nearly as laden with nostalgic references as Ernest Cline's books.

Usually, after a few pages or so of an innocuous novel or article my eyelids will get heavy and I'll knock my head back, mouth agape, and be out for the flight.

For instance, I was gifted «Madd Addam» a few months back and though I have been looking forwards to this novel for ages I've only had the time to read 32 pages as I've been so busy so please excuse my lack of modern reference.

Whether you're a beginning writer or have a few novels finished, it's chocked full of exercises to stimulate creativity and to help organize your thoughts and pages.

Hi Ron, I agree that authors attempting to sell a few pages as a novel will soon get a lot of heat from readers.

There are many different acceptable ways of placing the book title / chapter title / author name / page number on the header or footer of the page; I recommend looking at a few recently published novels to find a style that you like.

With that in mind I found myself musing frequently during the first few hundred pages whether she might have been better off basing her story on something a little shorter and less erudite, an English literature unit at a 2 - year - college, perhaps - because it didn't seem possible that she could maintain the conceit of her novel through a full 500 + pages.

So, when a copy of Daniel Isn't Talking landed on my desk, I really only meant to skim a few pages before putting it aside, but found myself hooked by the novel's first person voice that is so compelling that I kept forgetting that I was reading fiction.

In this spellbinding novel, written in Albania and smuggled into France a few pages at a time in the 1980s, Kadare denounces with rare force the machinery of the dictatorial regime, drawing us back to the ancient roots of Western civilization and tyranny.

You send them a great few page sample of your novel with a good cover letter, a short synopsis and a SASE and they will look at it.

It covers a summary -LRB-... based on a novel by a man named Lear), conflict -LRB-... his clinging wife doesn't understand), characterization (It's a dirty story of a dirty man), motivation (it's a steady job but he wants to be...), length -LRB-... a thousand pages give or take a few), author flexibility (I can make it longer if you like the style), the writer's acceptance of reality (If you must return it you can send it here), and a heartfelt closing (But I need a break).

He adds that Campfire has a graphic novel biography on the life of Steve Jobs coming up, and there was a free digital preview of the first 30 pages made available a few weeks ago to attract young readership.

If you have a favorite thing of mine, leave a review on Amazon, or Goodreads... sign up for the free signed copy giveaway on Goodreads for my novel Gideon's Curse... buy «Remember Bowling Green» so I can donate the money to the ACLU... the thing that would make me feel the best on my birthday would be to entertain some people, and to feel as if I write — and I talk about that — and it's of more than slight, passing interest to a few of the thousands of folks who follow me between this profile and my author page... Going to put this on my author page as well, and on my blog so it goes to Goodreads, and on Wattpad, where literally tens of thousands of people read my novel Heart of a Dragon for free, and loved it (from the comments) but could not ring themselves to pay the $ 2.99 or $ 3.99 to read the rest of the series... writing is a lonely profession... help a fella out.

If you're not interested in Dan Brown or the film adaptation of his hit novel, «Angels & Demons,» you may want to avoid the travel pages for the next few days — I haven't seen travel - movie - mania on this scale since last year's Sex and the City movie transfixed shoe - loving travel writers everywhere.

The main difference here is that there's a far greater emphasis on the visual novel elements — with a huge section of the pitch page devoted to the background of your crew of «companions», and only a few mentions of the tactical RPG system that powers your more typical duties as commander (though, the stretch goals rebalanced this somewhat).

I also know several very hot models who wrote «novels» (three hundred pages worth of sex & introspection, strictly impossible to read; my first comment on those actually was: «There are a few words I «m going to throw at you: just tell me if they ring a bell: «grammar?

A few pages before the Harvard - educated MD, Michael Crichton, ends his global - warming - doubting novel State of Fear, one of his characters says the following: