Sentences with phrase «hand at fiction»

Seven years ago, stuck reading a mediocre book in yet another hotel, Patrick decided to try his hand at fiction.

Although I had written several opinion pieces for the Los Angeles Times, I didn't try my hand at fiction until six years ago after spending a lifetime teaching English in high school and college classrooms.

Best known for his nonfiction work (including Cod and Salt), writer Mark Kurlansky tries his hand at fiction in this debut novel, a tale that teems with life from the first page.

The reason I eventually tried my hand at fiction was because I got tired of waiting for the next Clancy or Brooks novel to come out so I attempted to write stories that would fill in the gaps between their books.

Why did you decide to try your hand at fiction?

Now Gulley is trying his hand at fiction, with this month's release of Home to Harmony, in which the fictional town of Harmony, Indiana, hosts the biggest collection of crusty, lovable characters since James Herriott settled in Yorkshire.

In 1911, after years of sporadic work and underemployment, pencil sharpener wholesaler Edgar Rice Burroughs tried his hand at fiction.

As might be expected, it was mostly an organ for the brothers to sound off on topics of the day, but they also tried their hand at fiction.

Andrew Greeley had yet to try his formidable hand at fiction.)

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, social media was buzzing after images emerged of Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb at the inauguration ceremony of a new center for combating extremist ideology — instigating comparisons from fantasy epics to science fiction.

While her book at times threatens to become a kind of Answer Key to Waugh's novels, which themselves, in her hands, almost resemble mere romans clef, she does convincingly show that Waugh always drew from his own life in his fiction.

I'd prefer our representatives put down both works of fiction and get back to the job at hand.

The teacup at hand, in this case, is contemporary fiction» (p. 11).

I've been trying my hand at writing different types of fiction and I'm loving the new challenge and the creative freedom this has given me.

Many more British politicians have tried their hand at writing fiction for adults — including Boris Johnson, whose comic novel 72 Virgins was published in 2004.

He also tries his hand at science fiction from time to time.

At its worst, his psoriasis affected as much as 45 % of his body, including his hands and feet, and made his nails «look like something out of the special effects cabinet of a science - fiction movie.»

It's always been a dream to try my hand at writing young adult fantasy fiction (because I am a 16 year old girl at heart:) and it's one of the reasons why I am taking a break from practicing law.

After getting my hands on a copy of the Alpha build, I can say without a doubt that they've been hard at work in creating a unique action game that's bound to please a lot of science fiction and action fans!

However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.

-- proved himself adept at any genre he turned his hand to, from the action sci - fi of Escape From New York (1981), to the science fiction romance of Starman (1984), to the high - comedy fantasy of Big Trouble In Little China (1986).

Instead, this new version of Solaris refuses to overly commercialise the material at hand: it is one of the most intelligent science fiction movies to have come our way since, I du n no, Brazil maybe.

LMD: Out of My Hand has received wonderful acclaim; its world premiere was at the Berlinale and it won the U.S. Fiction Award at Los Angeles Film Festival.

On the other hand, it is impossible to consider T'Challa's embrace of internationalism at the end of Black Panther without an awareness of the larger Marvel storyline, in which he (based on what we know so far) ends up joining the Avengers: a group whose agenda — wreaking destruction to «save» the planet from other - worldly forces — reeks of whitewashed science - fiction imperialism.

In her «me time» she picks up fiction novels or tries her hand at cooking.

After a day or so, I tried my hand at flash fiction.

On the one hand treating self - publishing as unprofessional and somehow not quite acceptable, like a bastard child, as science fiction was for decades, yet at the same time reading many self - published ebooks looking for the next bit hit they can make a killing on.

We learn more about the highs and lows of their complicated marriage at the hand of Melanie Benjamin in this far - reaching historical fiction story spanning the late 1920s to the mid 1960s.

On the other hand, however, writing fiction requires that you have at least a moderate working knowledge of world - building, characterization and progression, conflict, foreshadowing, resolution and general plot structure — just to name a few.

I entered the program as a poet and came out as one, but I also drafted a (terrible) novel, tried my hand at some short - and flash - length fiction, experimented with creative nonfiction and memoir essays, and wrote a ten - minute play.

She's always been interested in writing, first trying her hand at science fiction, then dabbling into mysteries and adventure stories.

Savill spent eight years working for the BBC and has first - hand experience as a reporter and aid worker in both countries, which lends resonance to a novel sure to appeal to fans of globally minded fiction like Girl at War and A Constellation of Vital Phenomena.

Amazon's Kindle Daily Deal is a one - day only offer where a specific Kindle book for adults, one for young readers (children or young adults), a romance, and a science fiction / fantasy title have been hand - selected by the editors at Amazon and significantly discounted for today only.

If you want to try your hand at self - publishing, your own themed Flash Fiction anthology, created in this class, is a nice place to start.

Moving away from books, both fiction and non-fiction, centering on the courtroom, but keeping a character we've met in previous books (Kindle County journalist Stewart Dubin) Scott Turow tries his hand at a World War II story, inspired by his father's own military experience.

Best - selling YA author Melissa de la Cruz (known for her popular Blue Bloods series) tries her hand at adult fiction in a spellbinding new novel.

Whether you self - publish fiction or non-fiction books, there are likely at least a hand full of reading clubs around the world that are looking for books on the topic that is your focus.

Good ol' fiction: The River at Night by Erica Ferencik The Storied Life of AJ Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin Pictures of You by Caroline Leavitt A Paris Apartment by Michelle Gable Before I Go by Colleen Oakley Caravans: A Novel of Afghanistan by James Michener We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver What She Knew by Gilly Macmillan In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume The Deep End of the Ocean by Jacquelyn Mitchard Since She Went Away by David Bell Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese The Decent Proposal by Kemper Donovan The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving by Jonathan Evison Happy Family by Tracy Barone Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley The Wangs vs. the World by Jade Chang Bird in Hand by Christina Baker Kline The Weight of Him by Ethel Rohan Eleven Hours by Pamela Erens Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff Cage of Stars by Jacquelyn Mitchard Saving Grace by Jane Green After You by Jojo Moyes Britt - Marie Was Here by Fredrik Backman The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid Fourth of July Creek by Smith Henderson The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout This Must Be the Place by Maggie O'Farrell The Passenger by Lisa Lutz The Girls by Emma Cline Cruel Beautiful World by Caroline Leavitt The Interestings by Meg Wolitzer The Couple Next Door by Shari Lapena The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware The Marriage Lie by Kimberly Belle Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris California by Edan Lepucki Seven Days of Us by Francesca Hornak Christmas in London by Anita Hughes

We are open to all styles and genres of flash fiction, although we do encourage you to take a close look at our guest judge for the season (upper right hand corner) if you are serious about winning.

It was around that time that he suggested I try my hand at crime fiction, since he thought my writing already contained some elements of that genre.

Want to try your hand at flash fiction?

On the other hand I am aware that both I as a writer, and my writing, are very much at the edge of fiction genre-wise, where the boundaries with performance art blur.

I've tried my hand at historical fiction, science fiction, travel adventure, and I'm even working on an archeological thriller now.

In both fiction and non-fiction, good design enhances the tone of the book, putting the reader in the right frame of mind for the material at hand.

Have you tried your hand at flash fiction?

Science fiction is still very new in Nigeria, but while we could barely find 10 people to contribute to the anthology in 2010, there are now hundreds of writers who will readily try their hand at the genre.

After winning first place in a fiction writing contest, she decided to try her hand at novels.

Writing is my passion, always expressing an opinion on anything — from a movie to my inability to understand fashion, and of course, travel (even tried my hand in fiction at some point).

On the other hand, if you have a substantial «book of business» (I've always wondered if such books are fiction or non-fiction) you can probably just work at home, because your clients already know who you are.

You're trying your hand at something other than legal writing and blogging by submitting to the ABA Journal / Ross Contest for Short Fiction.