Sentences with phrase «for fiction written»

The Orange prize for fiction, the UK's annual book award for fiction written exclusively by woman which this year celebrates its 15th anniversary, has announced its 2010 shortlist.

The award is the most prestigious book award for fiction written by women accepts novels that have been written by a woman whatever her nationality, country of residence or age.

Women's Prize for Fiction is the UK's most prestigious annual book award for fiction written by a woman (formerly called the Orange Prize).

The Orange Prize for Fiction is the UK's only annual book award for fiction written by a woman and this year is celebrating its sixteenth anniversary.

As for fiction writing, well, that's actually one of my goals this year - to get paid for writing.

And right now I'm starting over from scratch for my fiction writing: a couple months ago I had zero platform.

As an FYI, for my fiction writing (I'm a writer / editor) I use a program called Storyist (http://www.storyist.com) that is both a word processor with project management style features for fiction / research.

Jens — Even for fiction writing, I still would recommend putting stuff in the back matter.

For fiction writing, I've gotten more out of just writing and submitting, and out of getting feedback from other fiction writers.

Building Blocks for Fiction Writing fosters a broader and deeper understanding of stories, what they are made of, and how they are developed.

If you have won any literary awards however, then a CV for your fiction writing could also be appropriate.

The internet is a distraction that can squander the creative time you have set aside that is essential for your fiction writing.

Since I saw the book as a product format losing its primacy in educational and academic markets, it seemed at least polite if not wholly pertinent to ask about the prospects for fiction writing, and indeed the whole marketplace for non-fiction, from self - help to popular history.

Brant Related posts: Research For Fiction Writing — How Much is Enough?

I also heard (and I'm reading now, so far so good) that «Self - Editing for Fiction Writing» is a must have for Indies, and my next to read is «Writing Down the Bones»

The Guardian discusses why the Baileys prize, the women's prize for fiction writing, is still needed after 20 years.

He is the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Grant (1991) and the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant for Fiction writing (2000).

Not exact matches

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

Poet and Novelist Helen Dunmore declared long walks as the best means for crystalizing ideas and for writing fiction.

Amy Bloom, author of two New York Times best - sellers and three collections of short stories, has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Vogue, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award for Fiction.

John W. Campbell, the editor of Analog (formerly Astounding) Science Fiction, once wrote an editorial remarkable for the contrarian points he brought up (among other things, he came out against motherhood and for the man - eating shark).

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

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.

For example, in his science - fiction novel, Out of the Silent Planet, Lewis wrote of Elwin Ransom, a Cambridge philologist who is kidnapped and taken to another planet.

Theo That is just plain stupid, you can write fiction based on subject that may or may not be real, the Theogony for example or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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?

She writes for The Atlantic Sexes and is the author of the forthcoming book Irigaray, Incarnation and Contemporary Women's Fiction.

Jared: Jerusha has a cousin up in Alaska who's 14 and for a long time he's been writing really messed - up science fiction and fantasy stories that had his parents worried for awhile.

You sometimes make me think it would be great for you to write fictions on Bible stories like Gene Edwards did, and sometimes puzzle me with the depth of your thoughts.

Today, people write fiction for profit, recognition, fame, or just for enjoyment.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

For fiction, you have to write the whole book first.)

With typical starchiness, O'Connor added that «a golden heart would be a positive interference for the writing of fiction.»

Quoting verses from a 3500 year old fiction novel written by bronze age goat herders... Here's one for you: «Luke, I am your father» Vader 5:24 - 26

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I suppose this is because all my writing is non-fiction and most of the the books on writing are for and from those who write fiction.

Flannery O'Connor once defended her own methods of fiction writing by saying that «to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large startling figures.»

«Some find it shocking that a technically gifted group, earning its keep by designing web sites for businesses, could fall prey to aberrational beliefs that blended far - out science fiction with elements of Christianity,» write the editors.

Suzanne has also taught language arts at the middle school and for the past 10 years has been writing fiction, including novels for children.

I'm on the second book, and though it is YA fiction, it's well written and a lovely distraction, if you like a little fantasy... Here's hoping for an hour to myself, even if it is in a dark closet, and a time to shower, Whenever that may be.

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.

That's a nice write up for the fiction section of my library.

For fiction, I can't remember enjoying anything more than Tolstoy's War and Peace, because it is so powerfully written — the characters, themes and narrative stand out.

Well its not because of anything you've written which if anyone's looking for a good fiction book Trum's writings make a humorous read.

Many more British politicians have tried their hand at writing fiction for adults — including Boris Johnson, whose comic novel 72 Virgins was published in 2004.

To jump from Mr. Chipman's decision not to run perhaps being caused by the vacancy issue to that minor flap being responsible for Highway Superintendent Wayne Kelder leaving is worthy of fiction writing.

I've articulated it as a science fiction story, and I don't think anyone else has written that particular story yet, so for me it's new and interesting because it is plausible — and if we enacted it successfully, we could solve some terrible problems we're facing.

Writing this kind of multiple narrative is a challenge, and one that science fiction author Hannu Rajaniemi has tackled with technologist Samuel Halliday for an e-book project called Neurofiction.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

Tools such as Game Maker, Flixel, RPG Maker and Twine — a tool for making interactive fiction — now let budding developers start making games by dragging objects about in a graphical interface or simply by writing text.