Sentences with phrase «generation of writers who»

I think what you say might well be true for the older generation of writers who started writing when all that silly submitting and querying bullshit was the only way to reach readers.

Howey is part of a generation of writers who have leveraged new media to develop direct personal relationships with readers.

Then there will be the next generation of writers who reach that point where they have completed their manuscripts and they're ready to think about publishing.

By showing that indie publishing is not just a viable alternative to legacy publishing, but perhaps a preferable one as well, you're helping inform an entire generation of writers who will use this date to help them make difficult, personal decisions.

Not exact matches

If, as many believe, God directed the people who wrote the Gospels as to what they should write about, if God thought it all that important to tell all future generations what Jesus had to say on this topic, why did he not direct the writers of the Gospels to tell us what Jesus said?

But at the same time, observed writer John Leo, a large number of Americans were «computerphobes» and «technopeasants» who feared computers were «designed to destroy privacy, eliminate jobs, carry the TV generation even further away from literacy, read little squiggles on cornflakes boxes so the grocer can cheat his customers more easily, and allow World War III to be launched entirely by technical error.»

You know, I'm a big Star Trek fan and I think a lot of scientists, the science writers who have grown up love Star Trek, but, you know, maybe its formally [finally] got [a] little tiring, so you just need to take a break and maybe [a] new generation will find it interesting, and I am sure enough, maybe a $ 5,500 dollar set of bat «leth could go for twice that, you know, 30 years from now.

Generations of fine writers have conjured up for us wild places and astonishing creatures, but for every reader inspired to get closer to nature in some way, there are thousands who simply enjoy the read.

As a British director who made his start in TV comedy, I can vouch for the fact that this film is one of the key texts for every single UK comedy writer, actor, and director of my generation.

A low - key highlight of the recent South by Southwest Film Festival now making its L.A. premiere, Stella Meghie's appealing debut feature focuses on three generations of Jamaican American women, including the endearingly indecisive young New York writer (an excellent Taylour Paige) who gives the movie its title.

For me, it's the former rather than the latter... but, then, I'm just slightly older than the generation who swore by those toys that were more than met the eye; not that I'm not curious to see how the animated series translates to live - action, but, frankly, I'm much more psyched to find out if the writers of «The Simpsons Movie» can pull a rabbit out of their hat and come up with a flick that's better than, say, the last three or four seasons of the show.

Huntsinger is helping to raise the profile of a generation of filmmakers, most recently Moonlight writer - director Barry Jenkins, who began attending Telluride as a student and was serving popcorn as a concession manager at the festival in 2008 when Huntsinger took an interest in his first movie, the $ 13,000 Medicine for Melancholy.

Dan Jurgens is both an artist and writer who has taken on Superman numerous times, including the famous death, and wraps up his current run with the character in this week's momentous Action Comics # 1000 passing the torch to the next generation of creators in a way.

Josh, Harrison and their father, Henry, are part of a long history of intergenerational writers who have used writing as both a teaching experience and a way to bring generations together by changing storytelling into a more participatory process.

Yet Styron, who would have been 90 years old on June 11, was also a prolific and gifted writer of nonfiction, as the doorstop - sized new collection, My Generation, makes plain.

Seems only fair that he and his publisher, Random House, should be willing to share that success with all of the aspiring writers and next - generation publishers who are using Lulu to bring their knowledge, expertise and remarkable stories to the world.

This «permission» has ushered in a whole new generation of diverse writers who have produced verse novels, memoirs, and biographies.

«You can never have writer's block in Lagos,» says Toni Kan, one of a new generation of Nigerian writers who finds inspiration in the city.

Will the next generation of writers — those who aren't established in traditional publishing — be in a strong of a position with traditional publishing?

And, because of guilt - by - association, it's an annoyance for the emerging generation of indie writers who chose not to bother with the agent / trad - pub route, but who are every bit as «pro» as their trad - pub counterparts.

Stein labeled this group of expat writers as «The Lost Generation» — writers who were adrift after World War I and were trying to find a set of values they could believe in.

We are committed not just to publishing the prominent writers of our age, but also to publishing first books and lesser - known authors who will become the important poets of their generation.

You may think of the great writers of previous generations who just seemed to sit in their studies and produce great books.

Writers who sail through the idea - generation and researching stages sometimes come to a sudden halt here, but writing the first draft of your ebook doesn't need to be daunting or difficult.

It's just the current transitional generation of writers and publishers who are trying to uphold clear demarcations between traditional, small independent and self - publishing.

At several places in the building, the Hamburger Bahnhof currently exhibits an artist whose work and life can not be separated from one another — a painter, an actor, a writer, a musician, a drunkard, a dancer, a traveller, a charmer, an enfant terrible and self - producer — in short, an «exhibitionist» as he called himself and an artist who today is considered one of the most significant of his generation.

Best known for his Abstract Expressionist - style Graffiti, JonOne represents a new generation of contemporary artists who have moved beyond their roots as graffiti writers to establish themselves as painters.

In art circles, it's sometimes forgotten that the first generation of Abstract Expressionist painters in the 1940's were indebted to the modernist writers of the 1920's, who elevated an interest in myth and symbolism to the level of an aesthetic imperative.

The French curator Simon Castets, who is 30 but could be easily mistaken for a cast member of Glee, is part of the new generation of artists, filmmakers, writers, and other creative types emerging in the age of social media.

Eva Hesse has (quite rightfully) long been established as one of the most significant artists of her generation, and aside from calling attention to, say, less canonical works or emphasizing previously unplumbed historical correspondences, most recent reviews have taken her «excellence» as a given, often focusing not on Hesse's oeuvre itself but on the methodologies used by curators and catalogue writers who take the artist's short, tragic (and thus mythic) career as their subject.

In this sense the true heirs of the New York School were not the gestural painters of the fifties but the writers of the «beat» generation and the funk assemblagists, who metamorphosed the New York School's romantic imagery of the alienated genius into the militant social pariah, as exemplified by Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Norman Mailer.

Last year, Arts Writers funded Andrea K. Scott who has been writing about the «postinternet» generation, following a loose group of young artists working in Berlin, Oslo, New York and Los Angeles.

It includes essays by poets, artists, philosophers and sociologists: from civil rights figures such as the scholar and African - American activist W.E.B. Du Bois and the Trinidadian - American Stokely Carmichael; to writers including Gertrude Stein and Joan Retallack; from artists of different generations such as sound poet Hugo Ball (who wrote one of the founding Dada manifestos), Ad Reinhardt, Joan Jonas, William Pope.L and Felix Gonzalez - Torres; to new essays by curators Adrienne Edwards, Laura Hoptman, Susan Thompson, Jenny Schlenzka and the critic Tom McDonough.

Thomas argues that the heroes of this generation will be writers, artists, and musicians who move us to fundamental change — incremental changes are just not sufficient under the current emergency.

The perils and promises of a rising generation steeped in informal writing are particularly relevant to legal educators: Not only are we engaged in training students to be professional readers and writers who will carefully use written language to explain, to persuade, or to bind others, we frequently encourage students to use the rigor of writing to build their understanding and to create complex legal argument.

While I wouldn't need to worry about acting out any specific scenes, Virgil did receive the full backstory treatment, and a couple weeks before SXSW, Giant Spoon and writer - director David Wally offered me several takes on Virgil: he could be a confident fourth - generation lawman, a tentative rookie, a corrupt cop, a skittish coward scared of Sweetwater's tougher elements, or a sadistic deputy who thought residents needed harsher punishment.

About this blog About my company, Brazen Careerist Penelopes guide to starting a blog The Internet has created a generation of great writers Posted to: College students Diversity Journalism October 19th, 2009 Del.icio.us Posted by Wil Butler on October 21, 2009 at 1:48 pm permalink As a librarian who is a frequent user of online technologies I have been trying to articulate this idea for quite some time.