Sentences with phrase «first get a story»

But a creating a query letter first, when you first get a story idea, would be an interesting way to see if it's good or needs work.

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Don't be discouraged if your first story (or first few) gets little or no attention.

The first story, says Gittins, is the pitch, which she calls «the story to get you started.»

«If you look at the old model of advertising, it has an ascending story arc with a big reveal at the end, whereas in today's world, with everyone on their phones, you need to deliver the headline first to get their attention,» she says.

One of Shahid's first tasks was getting Malala's story told in a book, called I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Little, Brown and Company, 2013).

Sharing your story is the first step toward connecting with others who may want to get involved in what you're doing and make your mission part of their own.

Universal had heard all the stories of Hopper's erratic behavior over the years, first as an up - and - coming actor who had small parts in the James Dean movies «Rebel Without a Cause» and «Giant» (he admired Dean immensely), then as a bit player on a slew of TV shows, where he got little respect and gave even less back.

They would first get the attention of the local gay market through ads and stories run in local gay newspapers and magazines and through their support of social and fund - raising events to which gays would normally be attracted.

The Globe and Mail first broke the story that Verizon was looking at getting into Canada, possibly by acquiring Wind Mobile, back on Jun. 17.

Today's must - read story is by Fortune's Claire Zillman on why bankers are likely to get smaller bonuses this year, the first drop in four years.

Another nugget from Wozniak's impassioned rant was the story of his first Tesla order: Wozniak and his wife had waited for six months to get on top of the waitlist for a Tesla in 2004 but opted out and got a Mercedes instead.

If your little ones are ready to see their favorite super heroes on the big screen but want to know more about their stories first, this list will help you get them up to speed faster than you can say «Infinity Stones.»

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Bethea: The [Mark] Zuckerberg story was when I first got enamored with tech.

Their stories first surfaced in the The Wall Street Journal four days before the election, but got little traction in the swirl of news that followed Mr. Trump's victory.

In this episode he shares his story of how he got started, landed his first clients, and built his business up to the point where it is today.

We first got wind of this in September 2014, when CNN did a story on the subject.

«Since then I have contacted the Gitxaala First Nation and have attempted to contact the company to get their views on a truly perplexing story.

Sometimes, when you're newsjacking, it's about being first — as long as you're accurate, you just need to get a story out the door to make the most of it.

If you're first to break a story, you're going to get the links and coverage down the road.

Lead Instructor, Tim Arney, shares his story about getting involved with Canada Learning Code and preparing to lead his first workshop!

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We might as well get the meat of this story out of the way in the first sentence.

Maybe the media can only run positive stories about him and get behind him 100 % like Obama and you media types can get the first Morman into office!!!

Now this might seem like an insignificant part of the story or that I am dragging out this time in a young Midwestern girl's life, but this was of most importance because this also meant I got my first real bible.

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

We exist to live a different story than this consumer - driven, me - first, get - ahead - and - stick - it - to - the - man world we live in.

Perhaps in the story of Jesus» unconventional birth (born of Mary yet conceived by the Holy Spirit), we get our first inkling of miracle — that in Jesus God comes to all of us.

It reminds me of the story where a local store advertises a huge discount sale event where the first 100 customers will get a free gift.

By serving as a politically resonant allegory about the ways differing beliefs can divide friends and family, it also became one of Marvel's first, bonafide tragedies — a story of what happens when good people get their priorities confused.

We don't get to choose how our stories begin, and though we row tirelessly forward in an effort to determine the course of our life's story, still there is that past, always tethering us to our first breath.»

Those who don't get it, never got that message in the first place and this story is lost on them.

But if you can get past negative first impressions, your life and love story will be epic!!!»

Which is worse: using the emotionally charged imagery of a crucified Jesus to point out something bogus, or using that same emotionally charged story to get people to believe something bogus in the first place?

The emphasis was on getting students to read, often for the first time, stories they thought they knew without ever having read them.

Many things in this story seem like coincidences: that I happened to get interested in James Joyce and ask my Catholic friend about chasubles; that I and my boyfriend Steve, now my husband, happened to meet the same Polish Capuchin in little Broken Arrow; that the priest who prepared us for marriage ten years later happened to be a Polish Dominican from the priory in which the Krakow seminar was held; that Prof. Russell Hittinger happened to come to Tulsa, which led me to Poland and to First Things, all of which played a part in bringing my parents into the Church.

So this is the first time you can just open one book and get the whole story.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

When the first «girl gamers» started getting into the scene geeky white boys inhabited only by geeky white boys like me, you heard similar horror stories.

why don't you start with why humans invented religion in the first place, the origins of the books of the bible, the multiple «christ» (copied) stories throughout the history of time, fossil evidence of evolution of man and all species, all the discrepancies in the bible, knowledge of all the gods that humans have believed in through recorded history, the political uses of christianity in the time of it's origin, the fact that every other religion has followers who believe just as strongly in their own god / book, that fact that if you had been born in another part of the world you would be a different religion and going to «hell», and that a good, kind, omniscient god wouldn't allow all the suffering and evil to happen, and wouldn't need «help» as christians like to tout... and then we'll get to all these ridiculous fools.

I learned a long time ago never to go out on that actual holiday — I've told the story before on here, but one of the first Valentine's Tony and I spent together I suggested this restaurant, and when we got there, didn't realize that it was a pre fix menu — and it was all small plates — while there were 8 courses, each course was one or two bites at best — and $ 150 pp without drink.

I read the story of Martha's first experience eating a warm pretzel which got me thinking of my favorite experience.

And I just love this story — food transforms people and it's often the first thing I bond with people over as well I'm really excited to try this recipe, I've never made a real risotto, my ability to get distracted in the kitchen makes dishes like risotto almost impossible to pull off.

Too many wine brands have been left languishing on drinks lists because the importer has got carried away by the winery, the location, the producer's story, and not put the interests of the retailers, and their strategies» first.

You are also invited to experience a mini-market with customer success stories from around the world and a convenience area where you can get a first - hand experience of how easy it is to use the Ecolean packages.

The first cookbook I read like a novel... the story got better with each turn of the page.

He arrived at the Honolulu airport onThursday at 3:30 a.m., was on the tee four hours later, went out and shot 69 inthe first Tour round of his life, then screwed up the story by missing the cut.As travel stories go, it will soon get topped.

The winner is still somehow not obvious despite there being just four men left: all four have a reasonable story line claim to winning the Rumble: Cena to face Styles again, this time at Mania, Reigns to face off against Lesnar to wrap their long - term story, Nakamura to take on his old rival Styles, and Finn, the first Universal Champion ever who lost it due to injury, getting a shot at Lesnar, the current Universal champ.

As an aside, the Blue Pants story is sort of a long one, but I imagine if any first - time NXT viewers tuned in and got to the reveal of Blue Pants, that likely made no sense at all.