Sentences with phrase «fiction gives the story»

But when it's combined with science fiction it gives the story a lot of * ahem * unexplored territory in which to boldly go where Kirk has gone before.

Not exact matches

In the end, understanding the world is about understanding people, and fiction gives you the best, most nuanced, most varied human stories and character portrayals.

Again, pretty much all works of fiction have SOME aspects of reality to give the story context.

Imagine if — with our free time — we wrote science fiction stories, or gave science - related performances, or made scientific art.

Give credit to Soderbergh for not turning a thoughtful science fiction story into some Hollywood - ized roller coaster ride or tacking on some ridiculous ending to try to explain everything about the film.

The book and the whole program Wise Lifestyle Education offer just that referring to the fiction novel Robinson Crusoe and the moral of the story that dreams can come true, but before that happens we must live with the given situation.

This means I can reward mailing list subscribers with free and / or discounted books, so every fiction newsletter subscriber gets a free download code for Argleton and a short story, and another code that gives them Queen of the May for 99p, a # 1.50 discount.

A writer since high school, he wrote many stories within the genres of science fiction, westerns, and non-fiction, until one semester early in his college years he was given The Lord of the Rings to read.

Essayists and memoirists need to find the right persona for each piece, whereas the fiction writer must pinpoint the best narrative distance / s for a given story.

So, if the reader enjoys twists and turns in fantastic fiction, they'd want to give my stories a shot.

At a low point in my writing career, just as I was thinking about giving up, I received the good news that one of my stories had been selected for the annual Pushcart Prize anthology of the best short fiction, nonfiction, and poetry of the previous year.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

Like giving away short stories (not necessarily on blogs, because people don't really read fiction on blogs.

In fiction, it addresses things like the effectiveness of the introduction, whether the story meets the expectations of a given genre, plot, pacing, point of view, characterization, dialogue, exposition, proportion, story arc, and whether the ending provides a satisfying conclusion.

I agree that fiction writers can build their online platform by giving away more relevant content, like short stories, chapters from a novel, drafts of work - in - progress that invite comments, podcasts, chunks, and youtube videos — all good ideas.

Her award - winning blog Live Write Thrive gives tips and writing instruction for both fiction and nonfiction writers, and her Writer's Toolbox series gives fiction writers everything they need to know to create compelling, solid stories.

For fiction, highlight the major conflict of the story without giving too much away.

Plenty of authors post free flash fiction, short stories, and the like to give people a taste of their writing so they'll be willing to spend money on the «real» stuff.

I think it gives authenticity to the story, especially a work of historical fiction (in this case based on a real story) and I feel the author was able to create a certain amount of suspense by slowly revealing things in a unique way.

The fiction was a matter of framing the story and giving it a narrative, but all the events and people are based on reality.

The Flannery O'Connor Award Every year since 1983, the University of Georgia Press has considered manuscripts for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, given annually to the two best short story collections or novellas.

The character of Joseph Anton (Rushdie's alias while in hiding) is written in the third - person he, allowing the present - day Rushdie some distance from his targeted former self, and giving the story a sense of fiction (because how could something like a novelist - directed fatwa be real life?).

Let me give you a personal example: I have exactly two - hundred - and - fifty (250) rejections for different stories from five different editors of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine.

An article this week in The Economist gave an insightful look at what some publishers may be proclaiming as the death of so - called «chick lit,» the misnomered genre of fiction which is often generalized by light - hearted, contemporary stories of women struggling to balance it all.

I was also given the suggestion of posting flash fiction or short stories on an author blog, which also makes sense to me, since giving readers a taster of my writing style to draw them to buying my books makes total sense to me.

«[A] beta reader... is a non-professional reader who reads a written work, generally fiction, with the intent of looking over the material to find and improve elements such as grammar and spelling... [and give] suggestions to improve the story, its characters, or its setting.»

A prize of $ 2,500 and publication in American Short Fiction will be given annually for a short story.

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Glimmer Train Press Fiction Open: A prize of $ 3,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies of the prize issue is given twice yearly for a short story.

I've written articles on a given topic, then included a piece of flash fiction inspired by that topic, then I've had people sign up for my free short story collection because they liked what was on my blog.

How I found this book is a rather roundabout story as it is not my usual science fiction or thriller title: a friend of my wife's recommended it to her, she texted me from wherever she was having the discussion to send it to her Kindle, I read the book description and thought I would give it a try as well.

Glimmer Train Press Very Short Fiction Award: A prize of $ 2,000, publication in Glimmer Train Stories, and 10 copies of the prize issue is given three times a year for a very short story.

Elixir Press Fiction Award: A prize of $ 2,000, publication by Elixir Press, and 25 author copies is given annually for a short story collection or a novel.

Give us a short story, poem, flash fiction story, or essay (loosely) concerning the inhabitants of the ancient cities of Sodom and Gomorrah as they struggle to survive amid the sulfur raining down upon them from above.

Encompassing fiction and non-fiction authors, our original purpose was to give anyone with a story to tell the means to get that story out there quickly and easily.

I have been blessed to have been given an amazing career as a writer of Christian fiction, and in my days of creating stories that I hope will touch your hearts, I have learned so much about writing stories readers can enjoy.

Don't forget the term «flash fiction» has only recently, in the last 25 years, given legitimacy to the form — until then all these stories were «marooned in a wasteland» as Susan Sontag would say, forced to compete with much different stories.

I've traditionally had some trouble completing short stories as well, so some ways to make a good ending and give it some oomph would be nice, but I've gotten better at that since working on the flash fiction course, so it's less of an immediate concern for me now.

This workshop gives all the techniques and methods of building a successful team in your fiction, a team that readers will want to rejoin again and again, story after story.

Since getting my device, I've stopped buying print fiction for the reasons I gave you above... tired of paying inflated prices in Irish bookstores, could buy great stories that are only on digital, access to thousand of small presses... and not having to rely on what the Big Five (formerly the Big Six) tell us to read, which are those big branded named authors like Lee Childs, Nora Roberts, Michael Connolly, Cecilia Ahern etc..

During a session at the conference, the presenter gave us some randomly generated story parts (character, setting, genre) and then gave us twenty or so minutes to write a flash fiction story about it.

But don't worry, weary Guardians, you'll find plenty of background on Destiny's fiction as you unlock Grimoire Cards, which give you access to more of the lore beyond the paltry amount provided to you throughout the story.

Granted, I was really sceptical about the whole wormhole storyline, but the game's opening cutscene gives a nice little rundown of the situation and introduces you to, wouldn't you know it, a game story with roots in political fiction.

It was delightful to be in a room where games like the interactive fiction title Lost Pig were being showcased, and where story - based games like Kentucky Route Zero were inexplicably being played on the Oculus Rift (we gave it a shot with Spellirium, but it didn't pan out).

As climate warriors write more science fiction than they are given credit for, perhaps Gavin's story will inspire a primeval tale of Green dinosaurs committed to staving off The 0.6 th Extinction.