Sentences with phrase «for fiction works»

Joanna Penn has created two definitive brands for her two types of writing: one for her fiction work (thrillers), and one for her nonfiction work.

Not exact matches

Writing for Fast Company, she explains that there are multiple ways fiction can improve your performance at work.

At the time, O'Connell was working on a poster for a science - fiction and horror film festival featuring John Carpenter's 1988 cult classic «They Live» about aliens living incognito among humans.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

In the end Gallienus decides to pay for the celebrations using direct theft (by confiscating and then selling the estates of his enemies and those of their families), but the final sentence of the above excerpt from a work of historical fiction reveals more knowledge of how monetary inflation works than is found in the writings of most Keynesian economists.

The proprietor of the shop obviously has the right to offer this type of discount, but it's sad that in this backwards, demon - haunted country we're still treating a work of fiction supposedly handed down by an magical, omnipotent being as a framework for a moral life, rather than embracing an objective, secular view of morality.

For example, the «keystone» of Mormonism, The Book of Mormon, has been proven by science to be a work of fiction.

It's just a work of fiction written for bronze age sheep herders.

This makes fiction based upon Scripture peculiarly problematic, at least for those who regard the work's underlying source as more than mere raw material: Is the novel, play, movie to be judged to some degree in accordance with its piety?

Suzanne Collins» trilogy was the first foray into fiction I enjoyed after a year of research and writing for «A Year of Biblical Womanhood», so I surrendered myself totally to the unfolding stories and, like so many others, lost a lot of sleep as I worked my way through The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and The Mockingjay.

His seven novels, compulsive reading for their adepts, fail all the normal tests by which one would judge the merits of a work of fiction.

There are other good works for fiction out there if you just look for them.

A work of fiction, for instance, operates differently from a work of history.

In his book The Art of the Deal (Random House)-- Trump's autobiography which has been described by his ghostwriter as a «nonfiction work of fiction» — he claims his first wife, Ivana, was an alternate for the Czech ski team, yet the Czech Olympic committee says they have no record of this.

The Communist Manifesto, Mein Kempf and Happy Halloween Charley Brown are also quite clear.So who are we to believe?That bible of yours means nothing except that through the ages a bunch of liars for their own purposes edited and re-edited a work of fiction so that morons would fill the coffers of their churches every Sunday, Saturday or other holy day they proclaimed.Now we all have to listen to this nonsense.Enough is enough!

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

For the first time in quite some time I managed to pry myself away from the non fictional category, and knock out a major work of fiction, and it turned out to be one of the more influential things I read all year.

And if «fiction» and «art» are shorthand for all works of human culture, then the connections between all human cultural life and the physical life of nature are also unknowable.

How idiotic for the news to ask such a stupid question when the work of fiction called «the bible» clearly describes jesus with woolen hair and dark skin.

Authors and publishers would also testify to her golden touch, Of the 46 works of fiction picked by Oprah for her book club (which she recently closed down), sales averaged 1.5 million in 1999, the club's biggest year.

However defined, Updike's religious consciousness informs all of his work; a close reading of his fiction supports the claim that he is seriously involved in enfleshing that marginal belief which underlies life for an increasing number of Americans.

Even THEN it is still a work of fiction, edited by humans for readability as well as content (how many «lost books of the Bible» were left out on the whim of the «church» who was threatened by them?????????) Since this is likely boring folks I will not start on the Church (capital C, not lowercase C)!!!!!! My 2 cents is all — for what it is worth.

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.

Obviously this is a pretty broad question, and I don't care if these are primary sources, to collaborative works by modern historians, to historical fictions (as I'm sure much of this detail will be left to the imagination as not much evidence will remain), but I'm looking for how humans ran societies, and the issue they dealt with, on a day to day basis, because people live on a day to day basis, and don't, like historians, summarize a decade in a couple of pages of writing.

In a list of fifty - two books there are only four works of fiction, «for those seeking relief from the more challenging recommendations».

Amadi is best regarded for his 1966 first novel, The Concubine, which has been called «an outstanding work of pure fiction».

They could have been working tirelessly to ensure jobs, livelihoods and the economy were protected by cooperating with our European friends and neighbours, not trying to blame them for our difficulty, and maintaining the fiction that this would all be so easy.

Interactive 3D holograms are a staple of science fiction — from Star Wars to Avatar — but the challenge for scientists trying to turn them into reality is developing holograms that are thin enough to work with modern electronics.

Scientific American spoke with Benford about the factual basis for his book, the appeal of «alternate history» and the surprising origins of some real - world nuclear tactics in works of science fiction.

Two years ago he and other entomologists went to work on what sounded like the scenario for rip - roaring fiction: widespread, unexplained disappearances of honey bee workers that left the youngsters and queen behind for no obvious reason.

The basic message is this: everyone in the mental health profession knows full well that the DSM is a work of fiction — that the hundreds of «disorders» described therein are just labels for fuzzy, overlapping clusters of symptoms and that we have never found a definitive biological marker for even one of those disorders.

For example, he says, Honoré de Balzac's The Human Comedy was released in serial form as a work of «popular» fiction, but has since attained the status of a classic.

Lasers are the preferred weapons for interplanetary warfare in countless works of science fiction.

As a control, they also mapped the social networks for modern works of fiction: Les Misérables, Shakespeare's Richard III, The Fellowship of the Ring, and the first book in the Harry Potter series.

It's just fiction for now, but a company called Orbital Outfitters is working on the technology for a real space - dive suit.

As it happened, I'd written a science fiction story that seemed like it might fit — it was about a couple of researchers working in a dusty lab who stumble upon a universal cure for cancer (you remember I said science fiction, right?)

«As a scientist researching passenger pigeons, I routinely search for new books on the subject, usually overlooking works of fiction.

Now that's a chewy science fiction scenario for the writers who frequent these pages to work on.

The supposed mayo clinic diet that isn't real is the only diet that has ever worked for me so how can it be fiction.

Not only was Pelle the Conqueror August's most popular international film to date, but it also marked the beginning of the director's growing interest in adapting popular works of fiction for the screen.

It hardly ever works in fiction, and it does not seem the best vehicle for his movies at all.

Surprisingly enough, Jack's motive for hating Christian and Ana is not that Ana became a fiction editor at a publisher and her major contributions, as seen in this film, are finding an author named «Boyce Fox» (could've sworn my accountant worked at Boyce Fox) and increasing a font size by two points.

As a fiction editor at a publishing house, we are treated to scenes where Ana is scolded by her husband for not changing her work email address to her newly married name, and her editorial notes consist of «make the font size two points bigger.»

The script clearly strives for Beckett-esque absurdity, defining Crick's life as an apparent work of fiction that he is helpless to alter or avoid.

Working about as far as possible from the commercial mainstream of the movie business, Costa has again made a singular docu - fiction hybrid that defies classification as readily as it reimagines the possibilities of cinema for the post-spectacle, post-theatrical era.

More than that, the work of Sam Barlow could be an illuminating beacon for future games that aim at offering innovative gameplay in police fiction games.

Films that might have fit this putative strand included the charming but overlong Timeless Stories, co-written and directed by Vasilis Raisis (and winner of the Michael Cacoyannis Award for Best Greek Film), a story that follows a couple (played by different actors at different stages of the characters» lives) across the temporal loop of their will - they, won't - they relationship from childhood to middle age and back again — essentially Julio Medem - lite, or Looper rewritten by Richard Curtis; Michalis Giagkounidis's 4 Days, where the young antiheroine watches reruns of Friends, works in an underpatronized café, freaks out her hairy stalker by coming on to him, takes photographs and molests invalids as a means of staving off millennial ennui, and causes ripples in the temporal fold, but the film is as dead as she is, so you hardly notice; Bob Byington's Infinity Baby, which may be a «science - fiction comedy» about a company providing foster parents with infants who never grow up, but is essentially the same kind of lame, unambitious, conformist indie comedy that has characterized U.S. independent cinema for way too long — static, meticulously framed shots in pretentious black and white, amoral yet supposedly lovable characters played deadpan by the usual suspects (Kieran Culkin, Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally, Kevin Corrigan), reciting apparently nihilistic but essentially soft - center dialogue, jangly indie music at the end, and a pretty good, if belated, Dick Cheney joke; and Petter Lennstrand's loveably lo - fi Up in the Sky, shown in the Youth Screen section, about a young girl abandoned by overworked parents at a sinister recycling plant, who is reluctantly adopted by a reconstituted family of misfits and marginalized (mostly puppets) who are secretly building a rocket — it's for anyone who has ever loved the Tintin moon adventures, books with resourceful heroines, narratives with oddball gangs, and the legendary episode of Angel where David Boreanaz turned into a Muppet.

So while I do know of his science fiction work, I almost like to praise him more for his dramatic films, i.e..

A hit at the London Film Festival, the film encouraged an assessment of the director's fiction and film work, and gave notice of a cinema with time for naturalistic performance and authentic space years before the indie directors» apparent invention of «quirky» American representations.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.