Sentences with phrase «for writers of fiction»

I think there is actually a better chance of making a decent living as a nonfiction writer than is the case for writers of fiction.

For writers of fiction, they are indispensable.

Listed in the Los Angeles Times as one of six indispensable books for writers, Self - Editing for Fiction Writers, by Renni Browne and Dave King, has been a highly respected guide for writers of fiction (and narrative nonfiction) since its initial publication in 1993.

NOTE: While most of my articles address the specific needs of non-fiction authors, most of this information is equally applicable for writers of fiction books.

My writing coach program is ideal for writers of fiction and creative nonfiction.

This blog by C S Lakin is a haven for writers of fiction.

XpressPRESS and XpressEDIT offer branding and publicity packages for writers of fiction and non-fiction.

Not exact matches

The comedian, writer and producer was perhaps best known for «The Larry Sanders Show,» which bridged the gap between TV fiction and the behind - the - scenes world of show business.

He was an accomplished poet and sports journalist and a fiction writer with a strong feel for open spaces and the pull and consequences of history.

The teachers: Salvatore Scibona was named to The New Yorker's «20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch» and is the author of 2008 National Book Award finalist «The End,» the research for which he conducted while on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Yet all fiction writers (and playwrights and filmmakers, for that matter) must make similar imaginative leaps, and will be judged — as Styron has been judged — by how convincingly they portray the characters whose points of view they've done their best to assume.

This is really a discussion of sanity vs insanity; or reality vs supernatural hogwash, or truthfulness vs religious delusions, or fact vs fiction, or logic vs religious magic, or brainwashing vs thinking for one's self, or historical facts vs myth writers.

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

Whether it's the fiction writer tying in a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, derailing the reader's plan to stop for the night five chapters ago, or the comedian on stage who knows that he must surprise his audience at least 180 times... keep the surprises coming.

The Etisalat Prize for Literature also incorporates an award for Flash Fiction; an online - based competition for non-published African writers of short stories.

Professor Jim Al - Khalili, President of the BHA Phillip Pullman, author Dan Snow, historian and broadcaster Tim Minchin, musician and writer Dr Simon Singh, science writer Ken Follett, novelist Dr Adam Rutherford, broadcaster and science writer Sir John Sulston FRS, Nobel Prize winning scientist Sir David Smith FRS FRSE, eminent botanist Professor Jonathan Glover, philosopher Professor Anthony Grayling, philosopher Nick Ross, broadcaster CJ De Mooi, actor and professional quizzer Virginia Ironside, writer Professor Steven Rose, scientist and writer Natalie Haynes, comedian and writer Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner Professor Raymond Tallis FMedSci, physician, philosopher and author Dr Iolo ap Gwynn FRMS, scientist and mountaineer Stephen Volk, screenwriter and author Professor Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics, science writer and broadcaster Sir Terry Pratchett OBE, Fantasy fiction author, satirist Dr Evan Harris, Former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament and Vice-President of the BHA Dr Richard Bartle, Professor of Computer Game Design Sian Berry, Green campaigner, politician and author Professor John A Lee, Consultant Histopathologist and Professor of Pathology Professor Richard Norman, philosopher Zoe Margolis, author Joan Smith, journalist and author Michael Gore, CVO CBE Derek McAuley, General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Lorraine Barratt, former member of the Welsh Assembly Dr Susan Blackmore, writer and broadcaster Dr Harry Stopes - Roe, Vice President of the BHA Sir Geoffrey Bindman QC (Hon), human rights lawyer Adele Anderson, actor and singer Dr Helena Cronin, Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Professor Alice Roberts, Anatomist, author and broadcaster Professor Chris French, Professor of Psychology, editor of The Skeptic Sir Tom Blundell, scientist Maureen Duffy, poet, playwright and novelist Baroness Whitaker, Labour peer Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer Richard Herring, writer and comedian Martin Rowson, writer and cartoonist Tony Hawks, comedian, writer, musician and philanthropist Peter Cave, philosopher and author Diane Munday, campaigner Professor Norman MacLean, Biologist Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, Nobel prize winner, Professor of Chemistry Sir Richard Dalton, former Diplomat Sir David Blatherwick, KCMG, OBE, Diplomat and writer Michael Rubenstein, writer and legal expert Polly Toynbee, columnist and broadcaster Lord O'Neill, labour peer

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

Full marks to Gollancz for publishing this collection of stories by one of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers — but it, and other book publishers, would be doing themselves, writers and readers a favour by providing more outlets for short fiction.

Science fiction writers, beginning with Arthur C. Clarke in his 1979 novel, The Fountains of Paradise, and a few engineers have kicked around fantastic notions of a space elevator for years.

Science - fiction writers have been resurrecting Neandertals in novels for decades, imagining what it would be like to see and communicate (not to mention mate) with another species of human.

Named for popular science and science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke, author of 2001: a Space Odyssey and widely regarded as the father of the communications satellite.

Mars, despite its inhospitable climate and heavily irradiated surface that would kill humans in a matter of minutes, has been a source of unending fascination for scientists and science fiction writers alike.

Andrea Rothman was a postdoctoral fellow and research associate at the Rockefeller University in New York, where she studied the neurobiology of olfaction; she is a fiction writer and an editor for the journal Hunger Mountain, and her first novel, set in a research lab, is under contract with Janklow & Nesbit Literary Agency.

Edith cast off any boundaries to become one of America's greatest writers and the first woman awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

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Oxford, MS About Blog Square Books is known for its strong selection of literary fiction, books on the American South and by Southern writers, a large inventory of reduced - price remainders, and its emphasis on books for children.

For example, a fan of Vonnegut and Asimov will be also be matched with fans of other science fiction and fantasy writers like Atwood and Herbert.

The world of Wakanda, a fictional African nation that is the world's most technologically advanced but also quite possibly the world's most secretive, is a bright, gleaming utopia for its citizens, who live in a society where easy access to the metal vibranium means the kind of post-scarcity society that science fiction writers have been dreaming about for decades.

For our first show of 2018, we welcome writer and critic Dr Eloise Ross, who joins us as we check out some of the key films from this month, including Steven Spielberg's paean to press freedoms The Post (01:04), Guillermo Del Toro's dark romantic fantasy The Shape of Water (05:46), Don Hertzfeldt's animated science fiction sequel World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People's Thoughts (10:23), and Ridley Scott's Getty dynasty biopic All the Money in the World (13:16).

Very exciting, it's been 8 years since Primer (a science - fiction favourite in these parts), and while the writer / director's screenplay for «A Topiary» never got made into a film, he whipped out this surprise to many earlier this week by way of the festival announcement and a very shiny bit of key art which confirms that Carruth will star in the film along with Amy Seimetz (A Horrible Way To Die).

I've been an avid science fiction reader and movie goer for many years and a writer for just a couple of years.

As he did in 2009's superb District 9, writer / director Neill Blomkamp has created another piece of absorbing, socially - conscious science fiction that is visually sumptuous yet disturbing in its implications for the human race.

By the time he becomes a fiction writer late in the picture, it's implied that his jealous scenarios with Ramona and earlier girlfriends function as a kind of substitute for writing — or perhaps vice versa.

Author: The JT Leroy Story (R for sexuality, drug use, violent images and pervasive profanity) Out - of - the - closet documentary revealing that fiction writer Laura Albert is the real person behind the pen name JT Leroy.

The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from underrepresented communities, including women, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities.

The screenplay received a Bradbury Award nomination from the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and the film received, among other honors, the Empire Award for Best Director; a Comedy Central Comedy Award for Best Director; two Scream Awards; a GLAAD Media Award nomination for Outstanding Film — Wide Release; and two Satellite Awards including Best Picture — Comedy or Musical.

Alex Garland is one of my favourite contemporary writers and directors of science - fiction films, and my admiration for him continues with Annihilation.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

A poster and trailer have arrived online for writer - director Clay Liford's upcoming comedy Slash which stars Michael Johnston, Hannah Marks and Michael Ian Black; check them out below... Neil is a questioning high school freshman whose main social outlet is the steamy erotic fan fiction he writes about Vanguard, the brawny, galaxy - hopping hero of a -LSB-...]

Inspired by Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, H.P. Lovecraft, and EC Comics» Tales from the Crypt and The Vault of Horror, Stephen King carved a path for himself as the world's foremost writer of horror fiction throughout the»70s and»80s.

There are few things more terrible than the death of a child, or more frequently exploited by fiction writers for the sake of a cheap cry.

Basic Instinct, for instance, is a love letter to Dario Argento's queer - edged neo-giallo, Tenebre, from 1982, a film that consciously blurs fact and fiction within the work of its central crime writer protagonist.

That anticipation came courtesy of «District 9» — the 2009 science fiction film by Neill Blomkamp, «Elysium's» South African writer - director — which came out of nowhere to be nominated for four Oscars, including best picture and adapted screenplay.

The script for the film, which boasts two writers with cultish followings, Neil Gaiman (Stardust, Mirrormask) and Roger Avary (The Rules of Attraction, Pulp Fiction), had been in the works for almost a decade, finally coming to fruition with one of the more visually stunning films you're ever likely to see.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious -LSB-...]

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

Write regularly, write about what you know, imitate writers you admire, don't be afraid of rejection... — those tips and more from an experienced editor of fiction for young readers!

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