Sentences with phrase «from writer friends»

Yes, I know many freelance editors offer sample edits of small bits of something, but many (pro or not) don't, and apart from referrals from writer friends who are successfully (And PROFESSIONALLY) published, whether indie or traditional, I wish there was a Writer's Digest Guide to Freelance Editors, that would help narrow it down some, and if anyone who works at or has connections to «Writer's Digest» I think it's time to add that to your anual roster of guides.

Some of my best critiques came from writer friends who weren't yet widely published when we first met (Now many of them are published, and these are quality, non-cheap books, I might add!)

I learn so much from my writer friends, it's nice to be able to pay some of that forward!

These two articles by Ms. Rusch point out problems I've heard about from writer friends for a long time.

Keeping networking and interacting with other authors also because even a small referral from a writer friend can help you procure the services of a reliable Christian literary agent.

That quote from Mary Oliver has been ringing in my head this past week, ever since I got an e-mail from a writer friend — a very, very talented writer friend, who nevertheless is not writing.

Not exact matches

Last week, ethnographer and writer Christina Xu, and a growing cadre of friends from around the world, exemplified what it means to be an ally.

The advice comes from my own experiences and my expert friends (other personal finance writers).

-- > Dealing with rejection from family, friends, and publishers (A writer who can't deal with rejection is like a surfboard who can't deal with water.)

Today's post comes to us from a friend and fellow writer who wishes to remain anonymous.

Chesterton is «a difficult writer to defend», he writes: «[t] hose of us who are used to pressing his writing on friends have the hard job of protecting him from his detractors, who think he was a nasty anti-Semite and medievalising reactionary, and the still harder one of protecting him from his admirers, who pretend that he was not» [my italics].

Charlotte is an exceptional spider whose affection as a friend and talent as a writer have saved the pig Wilbur from becoming ham and pork chops.

Lasting Grace: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Brian Doyle Thursday, September 21 All are welcome to a celebration of the life and work of writer and friend Brian Doyle with reflections from David James Duncan, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, and several others.

Look for more amazing guest posts from some very talented writers and friends.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

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.

A writer friend of mine recently confessed that she floundered a bit in writing her memoir because she felt pressure from her girlfriends to write with an inspirational tone more characteristic of Beth Moore or Stasi Eldredge than Donald Miller.

My friend Ali, amazing food blogger from inspiralized.com, entrepreneur, and cookbook writer, literally created this new product that is taking over the internet.

For a more technical breakdown read this preview from friend of the program and golf channel writer Will Gray

My writer friend Jenny Johnson sent me a blog post from the Houston Chronicle's SciGuy, describing a recent study from the Journal of Pediatrics about kids and caffeine.

Today's Watertown recommendations come from my friend Sharon, mom of two adorable boys (one who knows how to rock a runway) and writer of the parenting / food blog umommy + co-founder of KidNosh, an online restaurant review site for parents.

Tristan Ewins freelance writer Melbourne, Australia email: [email protected] Dear friend I'm Tristan Ewins - a blogger, Fabian Society member and freelance writer from Melbourne, Australia.

Livermore and Alexander had instituted a «quarterly look - ahead» meeting, at which grand strategic matters were discussed among a senior group that included Greg Beales, Tom Baldwin, Stewart Wood, Torsten Bell, the head of strategy, and Marc Stears, a close friend of Miliband's from university who worked as a speech writer.

«We're here to actually put our bodies on the line in support of our friends who are going to be targeted by this regime,» said Clara Mystif, 31, a writer from Florida.

(The week after I visited him in Iowa City, Damasio was a keynote speaker at a conference with the poet Jorie Graham, a longtime friend from her days at the Iowa Writers» Workshop.)

The researchers found that writers are more confident their friends can correctly interpret their e-mails than strangers — and readers are more confident in interpreting e-mails from friends than strangers, as well.

When I caught my breath, I found my new running - writer friend, and we hung out, dancing to the music from the main stage and toasting our finish with coconut water sipped straight from its freshly chopped source.

Two years ago, my dear friend Elena Brower saved me from a situation that was sabotaging my light, and she gifted me a journal with an inscription by the beautiful writer Anaïs Nin.

To make this struggle over who earns from yoga more visible, my friend and well - known yoga writer Matthew Remski and I have started a hashtag campaign entitled (and for) #realyogateachers.

An artist, life - coach, reiki practitioner, writer, blogger, friend, former military brat, farm girl from Texas, soap store goddess and actress check out more at www.shelleyadelle.com, www.yogapagodavero.com, yoganonymous.org/author/shelley-adelle/.

Last week I returned home from New York Fashion Week full of inspiration and having made some new blogger and writer friends.

Case in point: Proenza Schouler's front row, which welcomes the requisite editors and retailers, is also filled with friends and supporters of the brand, from Vogue's Lisa Love to the film director and writer James Oakley.

OK, I've written about this before and it's worth repeating because clearly it hasn't sunk in... That First Date talks about what to consider before, during and after the date and my post What To Talk About On The First Date for some ideas so I won't repeat myself, but, regardless of what I've written and what you've read and heard countless times from many other writers, coaches and friends, men and women STILL perform poorly on first dates.

Separated Nuyorican Jew (okay short explanation: I'm a Puerto Rican Jew originally from NYC) living in Baltimore as a part time illustrator, writer, substitute teacher and Uber driver seeking new friends in this brace new world.

By signing up to the niche dating site, adventurous singles — like the travel writer from Australia — can make friends, join events, and build a relationship based on mutual interests.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

A sax player, a party girl, a writer and other aimless friends drift after graduating from college.

The film sprang from a conversation Moore had with her close friend, writer - director Rebecca Miller.

The writer of «Wreck - It Ralph» and «Cedar Rapids,» who's working with Sacha Baron Cohen on a spy comedy that's in development, is a dear friend of ours from our days in Brooklyn over a decade ago.

The fourth and best feature from writer - director Rick Famuyiwa looks at the lives of Malcolm (Shameik Moore) and his friends Jib (Tony Revolori) and Diggy (Kiersey Clemons) as they try to survive as geeks in the dangerous Inglewood, CA neighborhood known as The Bottoms.

Writer - director Max Winkler's Flower got a little help from its friends, according to its distributor, The Orchard.

Had this movie been a Hollywood affair, I'm fairly certain it would have made fun of Texas; but under the control of Texas - based writer / director Richard Linklater (School of Rock) it shows the state and the people from it in the best possible light and manages to tell a story that you'll be sharing with your friends for years to come.

From his lead role on the NBC comedy «Scrubs» to his directorial debut, «Garden State,» the writer / director / actor seems capable of just about anything — including undertaking the role of music producer and launching the careers of his musician friends in his spare time.

The comedy from the In Bruges writer and director reunites him with actor Colin Farrell as a struggling screenwriter who inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his two oddball friends (Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell) kidnap a gangster's (Woody Harrelson) beloved Shih Tzu.

The two key sources, however, are unpublished documents he obtained from Gloria Karefa - Smart, Baldwin's sister and literary executor: a June 1979 letter from the writer to his agent, Jay Acton, and 30 pages of notes for a novel that Baldwin would never write, to chronicle the lives and deaths of his friends Medgar Evers, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. «I want these three lives to bang against and reveal each other, as in truth they did,» Baldwin explains, «and use their dreadful journey as a means of instructing people whom they loved so much, who betrayed them, and for whom they gave their lives.»

Interest is also sparked by two other characters — Mark Addy, the portly guy from «The Full Monty,» who plays Jack's keyboardist and best friend, and writer and performance artist Henry Rollins as an overly competitive hockey coach who yells a lot.

Entertainment Weekly got their hands on this kick - ass new movie still featuring Spider - Man in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

Check out a brand new promotional photo featuring Spider - Man in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).

Here's a closeup look at Rhys Ifans as The Lizard in the upcoming film «The Amazing Spider - Man» aka Spider - Man 4 from writers Steve Ditko and Stan Lee by director Marc Webb (The Office, (500) Days of Summer, Lone Star) stars Emma Stone (Zombieland, The Croods, Friends With Benefits), Andrew Garfield (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, The Social Network), Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill, Neverland), Martin Sheen (Stella Days, The Double), Sally Field (Forrest Gump, Brothers & Sisters), C. Thomas Howell (Chupacabra, Red Dawn, The Outsiders), Denis Leary (Ice Age: Continental Drift) and Julianne Nicholson (Brief Interviews with Hideous Men).