Sentences with phrase «fiction pieces on»

To make it easier to find the Flash Fiction pieces on the site, here are the direct links to the Flash Fiction Friday posts, in order of posting.

I am an aspiring author and have not had anything published, as yet, although there are a number of my short stories and flash fiction pieces on the web.

You can find her poetry and some fiction pieces on her blog From Tolstoy to Tinkerbell.

Hi Ann, I found this flash fiction piece on my feed.

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In an unsurprising surprise, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk made good on his Friday promise and debuted the first official footage of Falcon Heavy's inaugural flight, pieced together by none other than the co-creators of the science fiction show Westworld.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

We would rather go to pieces on the basis of honesty than to patch up a civilization on the basis of fiction or wishful thinking.

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.

Superstar (Decca Records), etc., as well as of Peanuts cartoons and political cartoons, newspaper satire, and, occasionally, of short pieces of fiction and poetry on biblical themes.

And while it sometimes can be overwhelming to work on fiction while working on non-fiction parenting pieces in the same week, it also lets me have a break while still being productive if something is frustrating me in one area of my writing.

There are texts and meditations on the power and purpose of science fiction, both as art form and intellectual tool, but visitors are left to piece together their own ideas — difficult while being accosted by a real Darth Vader mask, Star Trek spacesuits and an enormous, loud, interactive NASA console.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi was a science fiction piece, with Star Wars on it, which was okay.

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.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

Based on the novel by Deborah Ellis, superb animation and endearing dialogue set apart this heartbreaking piece of modern historical fiction.

I would suggest separating Wolf Creek from any publicity that puts this spin on the film, and simply enjoy it as a piece of cinematic fiction.

But his body of work runs the gamut from epic period pieces (Berlin Alexanderplatz, the BRD Trilogy) to dystopic science fiction (World on a Wire) as well.

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.

Theologians and historians will no doubt shred this interpretation to pieces, but it is an interesting fictional spin on a story that is already layered with multiple fictions.

Shot with a minimum of fuss on handheld cameras, Lindholm lenses everything with a quiet, natural approach that suggests a fly - on - the - wall documentary rather than a piece of fiction.

Very loosely based on Robert Ludlum's novel of the same name, indie punk Doug Liman (director of Swingers) has constructed a parable of self - discovery that can as easily be read as a subversion of the conventions of the thriller genre, a discussion of the ways in which the audience participates in the process of genre fiction, or as a science - fiction piece in which strangely robotic über menschen run amuck in a technocratic world metropolis.

It's a very tough movie to watch (it's violent, intense, unbelievably sad and even infuriating at times), but like the crime novel at the center of the story, it demonstrates the power that a great piece of fiction can have on you, even one as polarizing and challenging as this.

Most filmmakers would have gotten to work on a documentary, but you've made a piece of fiction, very nearly a Western.

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.

It is a tough, brooding piece of pulp fiction where bodies fall freely, blood is spilled and revenge — not justice — is on the mind of the two primary characters.

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

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.

Am just about to start on a piece of fiction and need to start thinking of these things

Anyone can publish what they have written on Wattpad a romantic story, a piece of science fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel, and interact with readers and fans.

Last year, Fifty Shades of Grey became the first ebook to sell 1 million copies in history, and was actually originally a piece of Twilight fan fiction that was published on the Internet.

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 potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

Inspired by my trip to Gettysburg for the 150th anniversary of the battle, this flash fiction piece was originally submitted for a contest on The Colors of My Soul, and can be found here.

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I have this space operaish idea and this piece of fiction is set on the ship Nausica.

June 2006 — Flash Fiction reading on the Sci - Fi Traveling Show — Yes, part of the interview session is out, this one my reading of a Flash Fiction piece.

For writers, it's an exciting opportunity to work on everything from fiction, essays, and graphic novels to theatre pieces, TV screenplays, and songs.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

Among the pieces featured: China Mieville bringing radical sf into the mainstream, many high profile sf writers talk about their favorite sf novels, Neil Gaiman on Gene Wolfe, and spurring the most discussion: Iain M. Banks on «science fiction is no place

1 explores the literary art of flash fiction, beginning with the earliest compilations at Carrot Ranch and later pieces based on a new flash fiction prompt.

Having recently been interviewed by author Jay Lemming on the subject of literary fiction (link to interview follows this post), I rashly agreed to write a longer piece on how I came to find the indie publisher who published my work of literary fiction (and subsequent novel), Vagabondage Press.

Out of all of the feedback I've received so far on this piece, Caitlin's has been the most helpful and considered, especially for this particular mix of experimental poetry / prose and young adult fiction.

As Le Veque points out in the NYT piece, not everyone is in the same category as she is when it comes to adapting to this landscape: since she has been writing fiction for more than 20 years without selling a single book through the traditional publishing industry, she has a backlog of material she can quickly produce and / or cut the price on.

Follow some flash fiction writers you admire on their social networks, so you can see what they're up to, read their latest published pieces and books.

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.

-LSB-...] UPDATE: Jane Friedman wrote an excellent piece on Writer Unboxed about serials that explains the challenges and trends, called «Beyond Dickens: Trends and Tech in Serial Fiction.»

Inspired by his project, I researched and wrote a piece on serial fiction for Publishing Perspectives in December 2011.

I don't ever see paying $ 15 for a piece of fiction, whether on paper or ephemeral storage.