Sentences with phrase «getting a story down»

You've got to allow yourself to write badly in the beginning to get the story down.

I usually recommend that writers new to hooks simply write a first draft and get their story down.

In so doing, I have learned that for me, the most important thing is to get the story down, in whatever form it's coming.

Surprisingly enough, in all the excitement of getting a story down on paper, this always seems to be an after thought.

After you've got your story down, practice your elevator pitch with friends and colleagues.

Not exact matches

If your senior people don't get it, even the strongest links further down the line can become compromised, as the story shows.

It doesn't get bogged down in an origin story or an explanation of powers.

Now that you have your relatable, fun story down pat — the question is, how will you get a reporter to hear you?

Between songs, they told jokes and shared personal stories about how they met, got their start and how Kenny's inspiration for writing the song «Last Dollar» was literally being down to his last dollar in Vegas in 2002.

Long story short, the IRS is more serious than ever about cracking down on cryptocurrency tax evaders, and it has three ways of getting its fair share from virtual token users.

In an attempt to appease those who think Messenger is too complicated, Facebook rolled out Messenger Lite for Android in 2016, a slimmed - down version of the original app that contains just the bare necessities: users only get primary messaging features and none of the bells and whistles such as GIFs, reactions, and Stories.

The May 30, 2016 story on how to avoid beginners» mistakes with bitcoin noted the five following mistakes: 1) getting bogged down with technical details, 2) becoming confused about bitcoin wallets, 3) engaging in questionable transactions, 4) becoming overwhelmed by volatility, and 5) not seeking out other members in the community.

If you're first to break a story, you're going to get the links and coverage down the road.

Phyllis Borzi, former Assistant Secretary for the Department of Labor, speaks to WealthManagement's Diana Britton on the story behind the story of the getting the DOL Rule down the mountain and through the finish line to win the gold medal.

We've certainly heard stories of professionals brought in to «put lipstick on a pig» and get a company sold, but these are down - side management scenarios.

This is a nice little piece, well - written, and in the belief blog... but, once you scan down a bit further, the story gets slaughtered by the same - ole, same - ole gang of people making judgements on people's beliefs.

And when one did get used in a story (by Peter on a Roman guard) â $ «Jesus â $ ˜healedâ $ ™ his enemy â $ «not struck him down.

The meeting with Satan is Matthew's story of the temptation in the desert... and how else did Satan get Jesus up to the top (and down again) of an «exceeding high mountain» if not by flying?

So if you can move from that encounter on the street to sitting down in your home, you can move from sitting down in your home to hearing one another's stories, to getting involved in each other's lives, to sharing time together where you're not just helping but you're enjoying life together.

Certainly, early agriculture is already part of the genesis story and we know that there were neolithic city states for many, many years before any of this stuff got written down.

That isn't glamorous — it makes a good story later but at the time, you've got two babies in the tub and one napping and you're lactating and you are trying to wrestle down a lot of big thoughts about patriarchy!

That's a lot more than the Pontif stories get, even if you have to stoop down to a storyline involving a combination of:

Even if there were similar creation stories by the Egyptians, they could only have gotten the knowledge by inheritance down from the period of Adam & Eve.

How can you be smart enough to get into Harvard and actually believe that some supernatural stories scribbled down by various unknown people between around 60 AD (years after the alleged death of Christ) and 1,000 AD, threatening you with merciless torture if you don't believe the outrageous stories, are true?

It took a few minutes to calm her down and get the story.

He takes the story of Noah from Genesis 9, and argues that Noah got inebriated by drinking not water but wine, and lay down with his nakedness exposed, leaving it to two of his sons to cover him.

The problem surfaces, however, when our story gets pushed down in a feed that is constantly piling up with other stories and other memories, to the point where we become nostalgic about the moment we just captured seconds after it has passed.

Oh, and with the whole jesus thing, «he» doesn't appear in cloud formations, a piece of toast, or on your fogged mirror in the bathroom... it's nice to believe and to each his / her own, but seriously... the stories of yester - year were derived from people who were so often drunk or hallucinating and being passed down for generations, obviously got changed.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

It's possible that as the story got told again and again over the years, and by the time someone wrote it down — by the time of Luke or Matthew — the writer was thinking of that person as a Roman, because in that writer's mind, it was the Romans who were there.

The bible is a story book of myths, passed down for generations, (and we know that stories get MORE accurate as they go from person to person.

Every couple months some news outlet runs a story of the millions of dollars worth of pot they get, but only after months and months sometimes years of tracking things down.

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Funny story: I was walking down the promenade the other day after spinning and yoga (which means I was really sweaty), just minding my own business drinking a green juice... and I got flagged down by someone asking me to donate money for dying children.

A caption accompanying a photo in the online gallery about Garcia gives another example of his determination: «In a story he used to tell he mentioned the initiation of the farmers» institutes and how he and a colleague, determined to get their message across, gave an entire speech «full blast and down to the last syllable» to a one - man audience in an auditorium.

No - one ever kept him for more than one season, with stories of missing training sessions and bustups with managers, before finally settling down and getting nearly a full season with Murcia and then Almeria, where he was playing when he was finally granted a work permit to play in England.

One reason that Arsenal are getting late goals is the way that our games tend to pan out, with the opposition tiring towards the end after working hard to close us down without the ball, but that does not tell the whole story by any means.

Thats what newspaper people do isnt it, they hunt down a story or get close to the people that they are close to.

Stories like this, box scores on the agate page or the newspaper, ersatz self - produced coaches shows posted directly to YouTube... its name made familiar so it can get down to its real mission.

I've heard stories about NCAA football negotiations where somebody during a caucus got up to go to the bathroom, walked down the hallway, looked in the room next door, and there was a guy with a stethoscope against the wall.»

The Daily Mail report in an exclusive (despite other papers also carrying the same story) that the Chelsea chief executive has flown out to Real Madrid, got down on one knee and asked Robinho to be his wedded signing.

Statement is baffling and is in fact the very thing that guys like cap and others are fighting against the truth is Colin didn't orignaly kneel during the anthem he sat on his bench he was then approached by vets who asked why he was sitting and asked him to do something else because sitting was disprectful it was those army vets who told cap to kneel because it shows your fighting against something and not just sitting to sit they told him it would be a better look and it's funny how people turn around and say he is disrespecting the very people who told him what to do and how to do it to get his message across this is the ignorance of America and everything cap fights against you judge a man by the color of his skin and his upbringing and not the content of his character you don't know anything about cap yet you pull this entire story out your ass go sit down clown

We are down to 16 teams in the NCAA tournament, which means it's time to stop talking about the fun little stories and get serious about who will win the national championship.

I employed stories and analogies to help Tod understand why it is that when he was too nervous going up against a bigger, tougher opponent, he could not get his body to calm down.

Great stories, his down to earth nature, and punctuated it with a joke about how the award was so important he was actually going to get some from his wife that night (with full finger point and wink to the wife in the crowd).

The price for getting paid off to not talk goes down every day a new story comes out and the arbiters of all that is good moral and holy don't give a fuck

It got really bad last year when after getting scored on he sat down and drank water from his bottle then a story came out about him smoking in the shower.

Looking at First Down Rate (% of drives resulting in at least one first down or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific stDown Rate (% of drives resulting in at least one first down or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific stdown or TD) and Available Yards Rate (yards gained by the offense / total yards available based on starting field position) is in line with our move toward bigger - picture stats, but they tell essentially the same story we've set up above: the Hoke offenses got worse and worse with very little fluctuation in even the most specific stats.

The Fresh Prince of Burnley Now this is a story all about how my life got flippin'turned upside down.

We're getting down to the real champs now, but some big upset stories are still alive in final 16 of Leeds United March Madness.