Sentences with phrase «fiction piece for»

Recently, I wrote a 500 word flash fiction piece for practice that will never see the light of day.

Warren Ellis created five flash fiction pieces for artist Eliza Gauger.

Not exact matches

Just when it looked like the storm had blown over, Pete Enns wrote an excellent piece for the Huffington Post in which he asks, Does God talk to us through fiction?

Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy, in hopelessness and tragedy, we can thank God for Bavarian sugar cookies, and fortunately, when there aren't any cookies we can still find reassurance in a familiar hand on our skin, or a kind and loving gesture, or a subtle encouragement, or a loving embrace, or an offer of comfort, not to mention hospital gurneys, and nose - plugs, and uneaten danish, and soft spoken secrets, and Fender Stratocasters, and maybe the occasional piece of fiction.

Inkle's groundwork is fantastic, making for an unusually vibrant piece of interactive fiction.

Through powerful imagery, stellar performances and a mind - bending, mysterious version of reality, the filmmakers have crafted a great piece of science fiction that will last for many years.

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

Though it heavily reworks Bissell's story, the film feels as beautifully calibrated as a great piece of short fiction, only with visual accents and emphases filling in for the prose.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

In fact, for a film that's based on a true story, «Machine Gun Preacher» is riddled with more clichés than most pieces of fiction.

As an elaborately constructed, compulsively watchable piece of large - scale fiction made for the screen, Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) is...

As he did in 2009's superb District 9, writer / director Neill Blomkamp has created another piece of absorbing, socially - conscious science fiction that is visually sumptuous yet disturbing in its implications for the human race.

Though a little harsh for family viewing, Rise constitutes a first - rate piece of science fiction.

The literature of Frank Miller is a prime example that comics aren't just for kids, and just because they are graphic novels, they are as important to our culture as any other piece of American fiction writing.

Goya's Ghosts (2006) Mixing elements of historic fact with fiction, the easiest explanation for Bardem's wig - like mess in this Milos Forman film is that it's a period piece set in the late 18th - century.

Creating a docudrama allows for certain narrative leeway, and if you're not going to use that flexibility to craft an engrossing piece of based - on - a-true-story fiction, why bother telling the story at all?

Rise of the Planet of the Apes isn't a genius piece of science fiction, nor is it on par with the original film for sheer audacity.

This makes it all the more embarrassing that such a great work of fiction is swooped upon and torn to pieces by the producers of «Underworld», who were looking for another Gothic action flick to make them some money.

5) «Looper» In the cleverest volte - face of the year, Rian Johnson made everyone think they were going in for a smart, original piece of science - fiction reminiscent of «The Terminator» and «Twelve Monkeys,» among other things.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» tale of an ordinary man who mysteriously transports to Mars, first serialized in 1912, is the template for just about every piece of fantastical science fiction that has come after.

It's hard to explain but Peluchonneau looks and sounds like he emerged from a hard - boiled noir piece of fiction, complete with overheated narration and rear - projection for driving backgrounds.

For those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptatiFor those in the mood for this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptatifor this kind of tale, it's a well - acted and absorbing piece of dramatic fiction, which is the least you would expect from an Irving adaptation.

On the year of Bond's 50th anniversary, here is Skyfall — a celebration of the character's full potential, this immortal member of mainstream fiction, in a glorious piece of entertainment that only has our respect for the «classics» keeping it from immediately being designated the secret agent's most spectacular movie yet.

For example, I think everybody poops, but something we should certainly all remember as a piece of undeniable truth should not be considered the basis of a work of imaginative fiction.

12, reviewed more than 350 pieces of artwork from a monthly magazine for teens and 50 fiction writing samples produced by high school students from a similar publication.

Maybe you need an exercise to start a short story or need to do some prewriting for plot or character development for a longer fiction piece.

The slides below cover several areas for making inferences: sample sentences, a short fiction piece, a political speech, and political cartoons.

I spent quite a bit of my weekend writing, signing and packing up books, editing for an upcoming anthology, writing a piece of flash fiction for another anthology, responding to emails, etc..

Administered by the Museo de las Palabras (Museum of Words) in Madrid, the competition is for very short fiction pieces of up to a maximum of 100 words.

During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for «The Talk... (more)

Fiction Bibliography A Killing for Christ (1968) The Gift (1973) Flesh and Blood (1977) Dirty Laundry (1978) Deadly Piece (1979) The Guns of Heaven (1983) Loving Women (1989) Snow in August (1997) Forever (2002) North River (2007) Tabloid City (2011)

And one could not ask for anything more from a piece of short fiction.

The other was an online flash fiction workshop where you were allowed to share a short piece of your own work for comments (only) after you'd critiqued five other short pieces by group members.

Especially as a fiction author, I think (again, at least for now) this is still a super important piece.

If not, this refers to short pieces of fiction or journalism that are sold for less than five dollars.

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.

Jim and Bryan also chatted about the Dear Author lawsuit, the Guardian reviewer stalking piece, five marketing mistakes most beginning fiction writers make, why Amazon is doing the world a favor, and several new features for the iBooks platform.

Title: Smasher Title + Subtitle: Smasher: a paranormal fantasy Title + Teaser: Smasher: sometimes you have to break everything before you can put the pieces back together... You probably don't need a subtitle and a teaser, and a teaser is probably better for fiction (except if adding keywords or the genre helps your book find the right readers).

Length: Up to 7,200 words, one piece per submission; six pieces per submission for flash fiction (up to 500 words per piece).

For some of you, getting the word out while marketing your fiction book is a piece of cake compared to the writing and publishing that comes before!

Up to 7,200 words, one piece per submission; six pieces per submission for flash fiction (up to 500 words per piece).

For an example on a piece of flash fiction, see my short piece below, entitled «The Cloaked Man».

During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for «The Talk of the Town» and «Comment.»

The piece in question is an 800 - word short story, nay, practically a blog post-length work of flash fiction, that she sat down to write specifically for a charity auction.

«An expertly crafted piece of historical fiction, Berry's latest is a must for middle and high school libraries.»

Maybe I should just continue with my flash fiction pieces and wait for a genre to come knocking on my door?

For a great short piece on what contemporary writers need to know about writing descriptions, see Janice Hardy's post at Fiction University: Three Things to Consider when Writing Descriptions.

Now that you've worked with a developmental editor to put all your pieces in place for your book (fiction or non-fiction), all that's left is to write the damn thing.

Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»

The digital literary magazine Literary Orphans, which publishes flash fiction — in addition to reviews, interviews, short stories, and poetry — lists the estimated time it will take for a reader to read a piece.