Sentences with phrase «fiction stories only»

One major or supporting character per every 300 - 500 words is a good metric, and most flash fiction stories only have one setting.

Not exact matches

Because Kirk believ ed that such an understanding was best apprehended and transmitted through imaginative literature, it is only right that his short stories and fiction best enable one to appreciate the character of his insight into the human predicament.

This great book is basically two works for the price of one, providing not only an engaging fiction story for your child; but a cognitive behavioral guide for parents to use with their children to alleviate feelings of anxiety as well.

Still, «True Story» is a tightly made slice of true crime that treads the line between fact and fiction that has so bedeviled storytellers, and asserts that perhaps reality lies somewhere outside of that, and is still only what you make of it.

While Glazer's latest is indeed a totally trippy experience, you only need to relax and let the film glide over and pull you in to finally realize it's a pretty straight forward science - fiction story told in a completely unique way.

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.

Like all great science fiction, MGS uses technology — even on a metanarrative level, since this is a story that only really could be told through a technological medium like video games — to ask us big, moral questions.

It's not as if fantasy, science - fiction, or detective stories hadn't existed before 1900, but so many of the expectations and conventions that genre fans take for granted today were only created and codified after the turn of the century.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficstory of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its ficStory (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Last week, Hammer to Nail published seven reviews of mine: Big Sonia, Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story, Creep 2 (the only fiction film among this batch), Island Soldier (seen at DOC NYC), Kedi (also seen at DOC NYC), Love Means Zero (also seen at DOC NYC) and Quest.

This stranger than fiction story of the extraction of 6 embassy officials during the Tehran hostage crisis in the 1980s, under semblance of a faux movie production as cover sounds like something only Hollywood could dream up This now declassified story however did in fact transpire.

The issue of climate change figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

The issue of climate change also figures prominently in Alexander Payne's wry science - fiction comedy «Downsizing,» though only at the end of a long and convoluted story that seems to be making itself up as it goes along.

One of the things that makes this quasi-science fiction mystery so different from not only most US independents but cinema from anywhere, is its reliance on imagery, sound, editing and music to transmit what we might, for want of a better term, call its «story».

The flagship of the Festival, section Oficial Fantàstic, presents some of the most eagerly awaited movies of the year, such as Only God Forgives by Nicolas Winding Refn - director of Valhalla Rising and Drive; Jim Jarmusch's latest film Only Lovers Left Alive, an eternal love story between two vampires; A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swann III, a surrealist comedy by the hand of Roman Coppola; The Congress, a spectacular adaptation of Stanislaw Lem directed by Ari Folman - responsible for Vals with Bashir -, that combines animation with a science - fiction story starring Robin Wright and Harvey Keitel; Sitges 2013 will also represent the return of Kiyoshi Kurosawa to the fantastique genre with Real.

For instance, reading fiction that presents children characters in the Great Depression, such as Leah's Pony, not only provides English language arts opportunities but help students connect with the subject matter through the power of stories.

If a story runs — even if it can only cough its way like an ill - used jalopy, to the corner of Flash Fiction Avenue and Finished Street — then I as a coach and the whole workshop group gets to move onto making it run better.

Speaking of hearts, there's one last reward of reviewing that I'd like to mention: that as an author myself, I know how heartwarming it is to receive an enthusiastic review for my own work, and the arrival of not one but two glowing reviews for my latest book, the collection of very short stories (aka flash fiction) has made my week already — and it's still only Tuesday.

I'm a damn good content editor because I'm not only an expert in book writing and story structure, but I'm also a fiction writer and published author myself.

The StoryBundle NaNoWriMo bundle is focusing on Science Fiction and Fantasy novels, so only enter if your story falls somewhere under that umbrella.

On the subject of flash fiction (which, by the way, is just another term for very short stories), if you sign up to my book launch emailing list (only used when I've got a new book to shout about), you'll be able to download a free ebook of my own flash fiction collection, Quick Change.

On the fiction side, I only have time at the moment for short stories and novellas, so I'm getting stuck into some anthologies.

But unlike my regular non fiction books which I have everywhere, I only had this story on Amazon anyway, so figured it couldn't hurt to test it.

As a result, The Meaning of Night is a resolutely old - fashioned novel — not only because it tries to emulate some of the narrative qualities of mid-Victorian fiction, but also because of its simple aim of telling a good story as well as possible.

Clarke was also known for his short stories and was the only science fiction writer to be nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

A bestselling author of both fiction (To Die For, Labor Day) and memoir (At Home in the World), Maynard's new memoir tells the story of finding love in her late 50s, only to lose her new husband to pancreatic cancer.

Like most great «translit» fiction — David Mitchell's The Bone Clocks (2014), Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 (2011), and Nick Harkaway's Angelmaker (2012)-- Pears» genre - bending, time - collapsing tour - de-force dazzles us with world building, but, beyond that, it reminds us that the people in those worlds survive by their stories and by the way those stories reverberate backward and forward, achieving, if only now and again, the perfect harmony we all crave.

Though the story is fiction, I wanted to imbue it with a sense of lived reality, a register of authenticity I could achieve only by drawing on my own youth.

Building fact into fiction, spinning fiction around fact, Davies uses each of these stories - three inspired by real historical characters - to examine the process of becoming not only Chinese American, but American.

StoryFront, the company's short story imprint, not only will focus on publishing high quality short fiction, but will also be the source of a weekly digital literary journal that will specifically feature short stories and poetry from new and veteran authors.

Laura has written some fabulous books, both fiction (historical fantasy and cozy mystery) and non-fiction (dog training), and has had her story «And Only the Eyes of Children» published in World Weaver Press» FAE, the anthology I recommended in my last blog post.

(For short fiction send the full story to only one editor / magazine at a time per story.)

Sawyer, the author of twenty - three novels and two story collections, is one of only eight writers in history — and the only Canadian — to win all three of the world's top Science Fiction awards for best novel of the year: the Hugo, the... Continue reading Episode 004 — Optimizing Your Author Brand with Robert J. Sawyer

It was only supposed to be a flash fiction story but these characters proved to be too complicated for that.

I would also say flash fiction is related to poetry, but only when it comes to the economic use of the most effective words and by creating impressions in the mind of the reader, forcing the reader to «sense» the story.

For a long time in the United States, the only [flash fiction] tradition was a kind of one - page story published by consumer magazines like Ladies Home Journal.

As we move through the class, you're not only writing your own short stories, you're also discovering the Kindle short fiction BLUEPRINT... What to publish, and when, so that your Amazon income steadily increases.

But until only a little while before that, I hadn't heard of flash fiction or micro-fiction or sudden fiction or short - short stories.

He is the only author ever to have been a number one bestseller in fiction, short stories, and non-fiction.

Timothy Zaha wrote some good novels, but a lot of the rest was poorly written pulp fiction composed by authors not talented enough to come up with their own stories who could only make a living by backpacking on the popularity of star wars.

The only problem for most fiction authors is they're really good at writing a great story, but not so much at building an audience and getting book sales.

Not only does it have a Fiction River anthology in it with a bunch of stories (including one from me) but it also has my origin Poker Boy novel called The Slots of Saturn.

But the penny only dropped for me on evergreen potential in early 2013 when I realized that fiction doesn't age, and the stories you write today can keep selling for the rest of your life and even after you die.

Only available in the US at launch, sadly, Kindle Worlds will offer fan fiction for between $ 99 and $ 3.99 a story.

Simply recounting events, which newbie fiction authors tend to consider a «plot», is unsatisfying to readers, because you're only telling half of the story.

In fact, micro fiction requires only the most minimal of time investments from its reader, offering a full story in little more than a sound bite.

Not only do I have a project I originally started with them, Fiction Vortex has also contracted with me to release my very first novel - length work, the short - story - novel that started my professional writing journey, which created the world of Iric, Sparrow, Faline, and many of the other characters you have seen here or in my published stories.

The joy of flash fiction as a writer and a reader is found not only in the words of the story, but in what is left out — the absences can be almost spectral, haunting what's been told, only guessed at.

I've only recently discovered this short fiction on hub pages, previously I'd thought of 750-1000 word stories with a twist in the end.

We accept stories up to 7500 words — but please read each sub call carefully, as some issues will specifically ask for flash fiction only.