Sentences with phrase «few writing contests»

I want to be agented (dream agent: Amy Boggs with the Donald Maass Literary agency), I want to enter a few writing contests, I want to have at least two stories drafted and fully polished (though partially will work too), AND, this is a new goal we each decided upon before leaving, I want to attend another Deep Immersion Master Class next year (yup, we're going back together next year for more!).

Not exact matches

In 2012, I wrote about a study that looked at the winners of bidding wars for contested acquisitions, and found they generally do worse over the next few years that the companies that lost.

Most of these have appeared on my blog, but a few are recipes of mine from past food52 contests, and a few are from the twice weekly blog I write for eHow.

Sitting on the sofa, I show him a few items: newspaper and magazine pieces about the Liston fights; Ali's conversion to Islam; the arrest for refusing military induction; the epic first battle with Frazier; the Supreme Court overturning the draft conviction; Foreman being voodooed by Ali; the Thrilla in Manila; the boxing lesson he gave Spinks in their second contest; a recent article about Ali buying buses for Chicago - area public schools (immediately after seeing a TV news story about how Dade County had no money for new buses, Ali sat down, wrote a check and mailed it, not using the gift as a tax deduction); and one about helping a young man wearing a hooded dark sweatshirt and jeans who crawled out on a high window ledge of a Wilshire Boulevard skyscraper in Los Angeles to kill himself.

While the Berks County legislator, a longtime advocate of limited government who billed himself as the true conservative in the primary, has neither encouraged or discouraged the nascent write - in movement, which began to take shape only a few days after the state's bruising primary election — a lopsided contest in which the heavily - favored attorney general and the GOP establishment unleashed a last - minute barrage of negative ads against Rohrer's insurgent candidacy.

A few weeks ago the company partnered with Chipotle for a writing contest and over 50 free e-readers are being sent out to winners every day.

Libraries such as Sutherland Shire Libraries and Somerset Libraries will be hosting drawing and cartooning classes (to name a few), while other locations may even be holding writing competitions — with councils like Randwick City Library having a contest with categories for kids as young as three!

Getting published was a bit more complex than her decision to write, but after winning a few romance - writing contests, Marek felt confident enough to pitch her book to Sourcebooks.

The bloggers wrote honest reviews, sponsored contests for free copies of my book, and a few of the bloggers also wrote five - star reviews on Amazon.

Let the agent know if you have a degree in creative writing, know a few popular authors who would write an endorsement for your book, have any publication credits, or if your writing has won any contests or awards.

All the user needs to do is take a picture of their traffic ticket and driver's license, answer a few questions, and in a few days they receive a completed Trial by Written declaration to print, sign, and send to the court to contest their traffic ticket.