Sentences with phrase «hearing his take on writing»

Of course, the actual time spent watching Patterson and hearing his take on writing wasn't the only aspect to the course.

I'd love to hear your take on writing groups.

Not exact matches

I can't count the number of times I've sat in panels on writing or other creator guide sessions and heard panelists dictate that anyone wanting to be taken seriously or promote their work must be on Facebook.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

it takes more faith to believe in a theory based on facts than to believe in a magical all knowing person in the sky thats from a book written by men that heard voices?

When McMillan sat down to write Mercury & Lightning, he realized he had a decision to make: Write what he knows people will want to hear, or take a risk, and deal with his crisis of faith heawrite Mercury & Lightning, he realized he had a decision to make: Write what he knows people will want to hear, or take a risk, and deal with his crisis of faith heaWrite what he knows people will want to hear, or take a risk, and deal with his crisis of faith head on.

A cute idea I recently heard is to take the bits of paper circles left from a hole puncher and on one side write one word.

«Unfortunately, «Citizens for District 13» — a group that my office has never heard of in the many years of dealing with community organizations — appears more focused on furthering a counterproductive anti-Independent Democratic Conference agenda than taking any action that has to do with a healthy and constructive debate about the future of this district,» he wrote.

He said he had written a letter to both campaigns to ask the candidates to take a position on the Constitution pipeline, but has yet to hear from either.

«After four Presidential cycles of ignoring the ballot access needs of Georgia by those who have sought our nomination,» said Al Herman, treasurer of the Party and himself a past write - in candidate for the U.S. Congress, «it is refreshing, indeed, to finally hear a Presidential candidate taking seriously the potential to be realized by putting the Green Party on the ballot in Georgia.»

But ears take a constant beating in the service — weapons and explosions, Roach writes, «are the biggest contributors to the $ 1 billion a year the Veterans Administration spends on hearing loss and tinnitus.»

I first heard of him when he was writing guest posts for the hugely popular copywriting blog, CopyBlogger.com Like many of the other bloggers on this list, he takes a scientific view towards fitness and isn't married to any particular dogma.

Okay I admit the title of this post sounds a bit dramatic, melancholic even, but hearing the raindrops ticking on my bedroom window while writing this post — the night before actually posting it — and at the same time looking at these photos — taken last Sunday when it was clearly better weather — I feel so sad.

I know it's been a while since you've heard from me on here, but I can promise that the writing and the photo - taking has not stopped!

Last we heard, Starry Eyes writing / directing duo Kevin Kolsch and Dennis Widmyer were about to take on another remake of Stephen King's 1983 novel Pet Sematary...

Hearing that Aronofsky wrote this script in five days makes sense because when it isn't just following people ceaselessly clomping up and down stairs, it's a wild, grotesque take on the Cat in the Hat with Jennifer Lawrence as the beleaguered children trying to stop Thing 1 and Thing 2 from ruining her kitchen.

Zamperini's story (told in the autobiography written by Laura Hillenbrand the movie is based on) is as awe - inspiring as any you'll hear, but Jolie and screenwriters Joel and Ethan Coen (yes, they do write scripts once every blue moon) take a storytelling approach that's too rudimentary and overly respectful.

While on a voyage to Africa, a rather hard - up and unproven young writer named Arthur Conan Doyle hears of the Mary Celeste and decides to write an outlandish short story about what took place.

«In his sleep he could hear the horses stepping among the rocks and he could hear them drink from the shallow pools in the dark where the rocks lay smooth and rectilinear as the stones of ancient ruins and the water from their muzzles dripped and rang like water dripping in a well and in his sleep he dreamt of horses and the horses in his dream moved gravely among the tilted stones like horses come upon an antique site where some ordering of the world had failed and if anything had been written on the stones the weathers had taken it away again and the horses were wary and moved with great circumspection carrying in their blood as they did the recollection of this and other places where horses once had been and would be again.

I remain excited that my kids love reading books — in whatever form that may take:) Interestingly I think studies also show that students who take handwritten notes in class (as opposed to typing notes on their computer) also retain more as they have to condense the information when writing — when typing the focus is more on transcribing than distilling the information being heard.

take it easy wacko, you seems to write exactly what Americans want to hear on purpose... first off... the product is not on the end of life phase.

, you are lying on the floor of your place looking up, a small draft runs through the room, between the door and the window, and all things seem perfectly still, wind only disturbs concrete in imperceptible ways, or it may take millions of years to be noticed and, as the air runs through the space, all your plants move and all is animated and all is alive somehow, and here are the thoughts of all men in all ages and lands, they are not original with me, and that wind upon your plants is the common air that bathes the globe, and we have no ambitions of universalism, and I'm glad we don't, but the particles of air bring traces of pollen and are charged with electricity, desert sand, maybe sea water, and these particles were somewhere else before they were dragged here, and their route will not end by the door of this house, and if we tell each other stories, one can imagine that they might have been bathed by this same air, regrouped and recombined, recharged as a vehicle for sound, swirling as it moves, bringing the sound of a drum, like that Kabuki story where a fox recognizes the voice of its parents as a girl plays a drum made out of their skin, or any other event, and yet I always felt your work never tells stories, I tend to think that narrative implies a past tense, even if that past was just five seconds ago, one second ago was already the past, and human memory is irrelevant in geological time, plants and fish know not what tomorrow will bring, neither rocks nor metal do, but we all live here now, and we all need visions and we all need dreams, and as long as your metal sculptures vibrate they are always in the Present, and their past is a material truth alien to narrative, but well, maybe narrative does not imply a past tense at all and they are writing their own story while they gently move and breathe, and maybe nothing was really still before the wind came in, passing through the window as if through an irrational portal to make those plants dance, but everything was already moving and breathing in near complete silence, and if you're focused enough you can feel the pulse of a concrete wall and you can feel the tectonic movements of the earth, and you can hear the magma flowing under our feet and our bones crackling like a wild fire, and you can see the light of fireflies reflected in polished metal, and there is nothing magical about that, it is just the way things are, and sometimes we have to raise our voice because the music is too loud and let your clothes move to a powerful bass, sound waves and bright lights, powerful like the sun, blinding us if we stare for too long, but isn't it the biggest sign of love, like singing to a corn field, and all acts of kindness that are not pitiful nor utilitarian, that are truly horizontal as everything around us is impregnated with the deadliest violence, vertical and systemic, poisonous, and sometimes you just want to feel the sun burning your skin and look for life in all things declared dead, a kind of vitality that operates like corrosion, strong as the wind near the sea, transforming all things,

Joining these are many important works shown in the galleries for the first time including new works made specially for this exhibition, including a diaphanous cellophane window sculpture by Karla Black, a new text work from the series pretty much every world written, spoken, heard, overheard from 1989... by Douglas Gordon, a newspaper collage by Tony Swain, a sculptural work on paper by Andrew Kerr, Jim Lambie's colourful pop poster stack (free to take away) and Hayley Tompkins and Sue Tompkins painted chairs that can be found distributed throughout the galleries.

«While the hearing division took the law society's delay into account, the panel did not give proper consideration to the multi-faceted impact of this delay on the public interest,» wrote Raj Anand on behalf of the majority.

Howard Bashman sounds disappointed that Alito refused to take the blogs - related bait offered in a question from U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley, R - Iowa, who said «There are blogs even about this hearing»... And if you haven't read Dahlia Lithwick's write up of Day One on Slate, you haven't lived.

I took breaks from my writing to watch Neil M. Gorsuch's confirmation hearings on television.

There is no need for hearings or oral submissions — the adjudicator would take limited written submissions and interpret the clause based on those submissions.

This is actually testimony that was published in written format yesterday (and that's available here, for anyone that wants to take a look) but the real coverage is hitting press today and, in turn, the real impact that this hearing and testimony is going to have on the cryptocurrency markets is likely to present itself during the late session on Tuesday.

Jot down the best helpful tip you can find and write your partner a note stating that you have heard their complaint, take it seriously and are poised to work on it.

After you have a written marital settlement agreement, the court hearing on an uncontested dissolution can be set in a few weeks and the hearing itself takes only a few minutes.

I am simply going to offer up my time on a per - hour appointment basis to those curious / interested consumers who want to call me and after hearing what I have to offer, will want to take a small financial chance and pay $ 60.00 for the first hour (which will include my handing over a ten page educational booklet written by me) and who thereafter may want to make further appointments at $ 50.00 per hour should they want to continue onward with me.

John Rook of Bennett Jones, CREA's legal counsel, writing on behalf of both the Commissioner and CREA's counsel, stated to tribunal Madame Justice Simpson that the bureau and CREA «have agreed that the current Orders of the Tribunal in this matter, particularly for the delivery of documents and for the hearing, will not be affected, unless and until the Consent Agreement is registered... (and) jointly request that the Competition Tribunal not take any steps to alter any existing plans in respect of this proceeding, pending further communications from counsel.»

While this might be beneficial, at least in the sense that the non-prevailing party might understand, if not appreciate, the basis on which the award was based, there has been an on - going concern that, given the task of comprehensively and accurately articulating all of the acts and factors that are taken into account by an arbitration panel in rendering its award, there might be an understandable (and possibly unavoidable) tendency to oversimplify or generalize the basis on which an award was made, with the resulting explanation or rationale or «findings», whether written or oral, being relied on by the non-prevailing party (and likely by others) as «precedent» to be introduced and relied on at future arbitration hearings.