Sentences with phrase «few writers»

Obviously, I'm not talking about the rare few writers who manage to break out.

However, very few writers know how to get their short story collection published.

I think that's why I could go back, when few writers do.

Few writers in history can boast the same level of affect on popular culture.

Few writers get offered traditional contracts, out of the many who submit (estimates run as low as 1 %).

Truth: Very, very few writers actually make it past those first two or three books.

However, very few writers take the time to understand the types of content that make up a newspaper (either the printed or the online version).

While that growth has started to level off as fewer writers have unpublished novels in their closets to publish, you can still expect to go up against thousands of other motivated indie authors.

The perhaps little - known truth is that very few writers earn enough to support themselves with their writing.

Few writers want to think about book marketing at all, ever, let alone when they're in the middle of writing.

Ever since the Great Recession and the transition towards digital sparked a media downturn, leading publications have been hiring fewer writers.

Using an unconventional mechanic like this is a risk few writers take, but he pulls it off perfectly, and that was a real treat.

We're told to get readers to bond with our protagonist within the first couple of pages, something few writers can do well.

I often teach Blogging for Authors workshops and am consistently surprised how few writers actually blog.

This may sound obvious, but few writers do this.

Few writers get into writing to get rich... we do it for the love of writing... although the extra money is a motivation.

Maybe a screenplay that has been poured over by so many creative eyes just, in the minds of the AMPAS, isn't as good as scripts with fewer writers.

I know few writers who could pay that, which is why Amazon is flooded with poorly written and badly edited books.

Professor Amato begins with the hope that he will do «what few writers currently do: join philosophy and history... and integrate reflections on ethics with insights drawn from intellectual history.»

Publishers don't even perform it for the «lucky few writers they can take on» — they perform it for maybe 5 % of those.

«Meanwhile, self - publishing via Amazon is sinking into a quagmire of shrinking margins and gimmicks that funnel cheap content into Amazon's maw while benefiting even fewer writers than before.»

Interestingly, these criticisms generally remain within the domain of philosophical critique: remarkably few writers have tried to understand the genesis of Rawlsian theory within its wider academic context.

Speaking of Mamet-esque, few writers merit that adjective as much as David Mamet himself, and, despite failing at the box office, this 1992 classic still stands as the best realization of Mamet's work on the big screen.

After accepting the George Pal Memorial Award at the 42nd Annual Saturn Awards, writer / producer Simon Kinberg gave Collider a few

A fair few writers (although not yours truly, he says with pride) sent sleek carbon fibre into the embankments, but no harm was done.

But then, as the industry got bigger through the baby - boom years, fewer writers lived near New York and thus mailing manuscripts to editors started to become the norm.

Wunderman goes where few writers have dared in exploring the difficult subjects of communism and atheism (as she says in her interview at BookBrowse she didn't set out to write about these subjects per se but wanted her characters to be truly shunned by the community without making them perverts or criminals).

Few writers engage readers in thinking about the meaning of scientific discoveries as well as Elizabeth Kolbert, a staff writer at The New Yorker.

Few writers inspire the fierce devotion that Japanese author Haruki Murakami does, and he's returned with a novel about the dynamics of friendship.

Few writers appear more covetous of old - media respect than Jennifer Weiner, the author most recently of the bestselling novel Then Came You, and an agitator, on her website, Twitter, and elsewhere, for the inclusion of commercial fiction — and by extension commercial fiction written by and for women — in the New York Times Book Review.

Waugh's series, about a family of sentient rag dolls living in small - town England, takes its improbable premise and follows it into territory few writers alive or dead have ever had the nerve or skill to enter.

Likewise, I have been to many publishing conferences filled with hundreds and hundreds of «movers and shakers» in the industry, but very very very few writers present.

The group has doled out awards to crime and mystery novelists since 1946, but few writers collect multiple awards in major categories during the course of their careers.

Ten years ago, the book publishing industry looked quite a bit different than it does today: Print books controlled 99.5 % of the market; ebooks accounted for about 1/2 of 1 % If a writer wanted to get their book into bookstores where readers discover and purchase books, they needed a traditional publishing deal because publishers controlled access to retail distribution Few writers wanted to self - publish; it was considered the option of last resort for failed writers

All too few writers share this, and I'm perplexed as to why?

Now that few writers rely on print reporters, with many actually lacking reasonable access to them, the rule's explicit prohibition on using Westlaw or LEXIS (or presumably any other electronic source) «as a source for the official case name» is manifestly an anachronism.

Participation in collaboration projects with other creative consultants, such as tattoo artists and writers, to name a few

«I know very few writers who earn above the Minimum Income Standard, and that means that they need second jobs,» said Smythe.

As Sidney Offit concludes, «Few writers in the history of literature have achieved such a fusion of the human comedy with the tragedies of human folly in their fiction.»

I agree that the problem here is not Amazon, it's that independent authors including myself haven't figured out how to pick up the marketing function that publishers perform for the lucky few writers they can take on.

Very few writers do this.

A shout - out to a few writers who have inspired me.

The most important thing is to make a memorable connection with a few writers and journalists to secure your time in the spotlight.

There's very few writers that define the phrase «Entrepreneurial Spirit» and Michael is one of the lucky few.