Sentences with phrase «great writer friends»

Not exact matches

I want to treat their stories with great care, not as an American (note: okay, Canadian here) writer with a laptop but as a sister and friend and advocate.

To be sure, Maeterlinck, when he was suggested for membership in the French Academy, the first Belgian in history to be so honored, wrote a letter to Le Journal asking that they choose instead «my old friend Emile Verhaeren, first, because he is my elder; second, because he is a very great poet, while I am only an industrious and conscientious prose writer.

Yet, writer and comedian Giulia Rozzi divorced her best friend after 13 months: as a marriage and and family therapist observes, «the guy looks great on paper as a very best friend, but not necessarily as a lover and mate, and I think there are different criteria for that.»

Born in Arlington, MA, Dr. Kimball went on to become a respected pediatrician and writer as well as a loving husband, father, grandfather, great - grandfather and a special friend to children.

And yeah, I think the problem — well, one of the problems with these sort of radical interpretations is that, you know, we tend to forget that Shakespeare was a businessman and a writer, and he was trying to write plays that would hold peoples» attention, that would get them coming back to the theater for a repeat viewing, that would get them to tell their friends what a great play it was.

If you aren't a great writer, have friends help you write it.

Some people are great writers — or even have a friend ghost - writing for them.

I am very happy for the writers that I know, Bruce Helford is a friend, Whitney Cummings, Morgan Murphy, Wanda Sykes, there's some great guys on that show.

Directed by the great Carol Reed, The Third Man was a Cold War spy classic that focused on Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a hack pulp writer who arrives in postwar Vienna on the promise of a job offered by an old friend, Harry Lime (Orson Welles).

I even get to invite some of my writer friends, who I know would be great to have on faculty, to serve at my conferences.

I have a close friend who is a writer and editor whom I respect a great deal.

(A fellow writer friend in the Made in L.A. group has just written a great book on this subject called Drown the Cat.)

And then another writer friend shared her great experience with the KDP Select program.

Just sharing a Facebook post or re-tweeting a book announcement is such a great gift to your writer friends.

My CFO friend was back a month ago at another workshop and he had worked out a seemingly simple sorting method through Excel, and he walked me through it on a white board with about fifteen other writers watching, and I have yet been able to duplicate it because it was so complex and I'm not great at Excel.

Sales are great, press releases, interviews, live radio guest appearances are exciting, climbing the ranks and entering the Top 100 Best Selling Authors in Science Fiction multiple times is exhilarating, but nothing beats the support from readers and friends, and fellow writers who share this thrill with me.

However, this might change soon, as my friend the writer, poet and creative thinking coach Orna Ross has just recommended to me a voice - activated writing software package that sounds a great way of speeding up the writing part.

Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked.

I'd traveled over to that great writing blog Writer Unboxed to read a post by my friend Porter Anderson.

Usually the editor and writer were great friends.

And yea, be sure to tell your friends about Rmharrington Short Stories and the associated book reviews, book promotions and great links to excellent reader and writer resources..

That solution might work great for us — many writers find lifelong friends that way — but it might also leave us open to harsh criticism from those who don't know our genre or care about our feelings.

Referrals from other self - published writers, writing groups (online or in - person) and writer friends are a great way to find good designers at reasonable prices.

Some publish because they erroneously believe they're great writers, deluded either by self or family and friends.

This friend was really a great writer and kind of a genius but also an asshole.

It's perhaps the biggest single influence on his ultimate career choice - even though Sansom claims «I would never tell anyone that I was a writer, not because it's a secret, but just because it sounds so daft - «Oooh», I can hear my family and my friends and the great heavenly host of actual, real dead writers chorusing, «He says he's a writer.»»

I have a writer friend who has a great story, but he can't punctuate worth a flip.

Everybody who writes about how to establish yourself as a writer (my favorite authority is my friend Jane Friedman) says similar things about what you need to do: write a lot of great books, have a great website, establish an email list and use all of these tools to, as they say, establish your brand.

Adam Heine — game designer, author, father of foster - children in Thailand — there are many ways that Adam inspires me, and we've been friends and critique partners for a long time, but his recent post (I am not a great writer) inspired me once again with how he faces, time and again, the forces of darkness that keep us from creating our works, and beats them back.

The pros will continue to put up quality work, with great covers and enticing back cover blurbs and well edited sampling so that readers will find new authors the same as they always have; having heard about an author from a friend or seeing them mention in a blopg or on a writers site or panel, maybe an online review, They'll «pick up» the book that looks attractive and interesting, check out the description and maybe reading the first few pages.

The reason traditionally published authors & the traditional publishing side has such disdain for self - publishing is not because anyone & everyone CAN do it, but because MOST of the ones who DO IT have self - published either unpublishable garbage OR have taken a manuscript with great potential & published it without decent editing & revision (both of which seriously hinder the enjoyment of the reading audience - not an issue if you're a hobby writer who just wants to entertain family & friends, but a serious issue for anyone who thinks that that sort of thing can hold its own against carefully revised & edited work).

We did have an old friend of hers who had a number of great anecdotes along with a couple of other writers who were big fans of her work.

You're not only a great storyteller, you are a great friend to your readers and fellow - writers.

But my dear writer friends, coffee shops are a great opportunity to market your books.

I thought... as a young girl I would surely grow up to become a great writer, my parents had other things in mind for me... so, I became a teacher, still love to write, and books are my best friends.

I've also been dabbling in a bit of Dark Souls II on the PS3 myself, after hearing other writers and friends rave about how great it is, and I'm having a lot of fun so far — deaths and all.

Tom Rosenthal was author or co-author of 10 books and monographs, on Paula Rego, LS Lowry, Josef Albers and Sidney Nolan, among others, and last year his On Art and Artists: Selected Essays was published, bearing out his friend Anthony Rudolf's point that: «Tom is one of the great publishers of the age, and a very good writer too.»

Michel Leiris was a prominent 20th Century intellectual, a poet, an autobiographical writer, professional ethnographer, and close friend of many great artists and writers of his times.

[56] A great number of artists laboured year after year in the hope of a hit there, often working in manners to which their talent was not really suited, a trope exemplified by the suicide in 1846 of Benjamin Haydon, a friend of Keats and Dickens and a better writer than painter, leaving his blood splashed over his unfinished King Alfred and the First British Jury.

He lived in Berkeley in «the best of times,» according to his widow, Betty — a period of great cultural vibrancy in which he had many literary friends and shared lodgings with the poets William Braughton and Robert Duncan, as well as the writer and film critic Pauline Kael.

A friend whose business is growing rapidly asked me to help out with office work, including some hiring, and it has been quite the learning experience; I believe this task has made me an even better resume writer and has taught me a great deal about resume dos and don'ts.

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A very good friend of mine Dawn Bugni who is a certified resume writer has written a great post in response to a «resume - writers - rip - you - off claim.»

I just wanted to let everyone know that Linda is a true professional Resume Writer, Career Coach and best of all a great friend!