Sentences with phrase «in writerly»

For UK author Dan Holloway, the issue is very much rooted in a writerly exchange with others, his own brush with a form of crowd - sourcing and social writing in 2009 having delivered him an unexpected and welcome surprise now:

Many of you have probably already heard the word «galleys» floating around in writerly circles.

As Porter Anderson, editor - in - chief reported in Publishing Perspectives: «The award to Ingram Content Group's four - year - old IngramSpark self - publishing platform stands out in a different context, a sign of a new era's maturity in the guild and in the writerly community it serves.»

The Guild's latest initiative paper, Publishers» Payment and Accounting Practices Need To Keep Up With The Times, is sure to hit many raw nerves in the writerly community.

As voices in the writerly community are heard more and more loudly insisting that we're putting too much emphasis on business instead of the art, is this our new rift?

by Anne R. Allen «Show - Don't - Tell» is one of the most sacred commandments in the writerly bible.

Just another lesson in writerly vanity.

Not exact matches

But in other respects, on the level of writerly craft, I note that this hippie interlude is kind of regrettable.

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The home has the usual appurtenances of the writerly life, with crammed bookshelves and curios of achievement, but also the perquisites that a reliable perch on the best - seller lists can confer, such as the Panasonic wide - screen television, the office assistant on call in a nearby room, even the six - inch - thick slab of 150 - million - year - old Jurassic limestone in the garden, an impression of a dinosaur footprint on its underside, that occasionally serves as a writing desk.

Dan Stevens turns in a vibrant comic performance as Charles Dickens in this drama about writerly inspiration that plays like a smarter Shakespeare in Love.

Dickens» personal life also integrally factors in both as thematic inspiration for «Carol» as well as a way to further pile on the pressure: The scribe's devoted wife, Kate (Morfydd Clark), unexpectedly pregnant with their fifth child, has lost patience with her husband's writerly self - absorption, while his mother (Ger Ryan) and sincere, if imprudent, father (Jonathan Pryce) pop into town for a distracting visit.

Meanwhile, writerly voices don't come any more distinct than esteemed British playwright Martin McDonagh's, and I think this is where the slow - burning cult appeal of «In Bruges» will reveal itself.

More puzzlingly, Leigh is also absent in the Best European Screenwriter category — curious, since «Happy - Go - Lucky» strikes me as more of a writerly achievement than the nominated «Waltz With Bashir.»

In an entertainment landscape where small, writerly projects tend to start from the outside and gaze intensely inward on the lives of its characters, Gerwig's stories begin with a self - focused character and then gives you a front row seat to how they projects themselves outwards, onto the people in their lives and the places they'd like to gIn an entertainment landscape where small, writerly projects tend to start from the outside and gaze intensely inward on the lives of its characters, Gerwig's stories begin with a self - focused character and then gives you a front row seat to how they projects themselves outwards, onto the people in their lives and the places they'd like to gin their lives and the places they'd like to go.

Even when a character's status as a writer feels incidental to the plot at hand — such as in 2016's Hush, wherein the heroine's writerly profession comes into play mainly as justification for her later resourcefulness — the fact that such a vocation was chosen at all tends to shift the viewer's dynamic with the film in fascinating ways.

But when I introduced the project to my 8th graders in 2011, in spite of some fear and trepidation, nearly every student eventually became immersed in the joys of creating their own story; of owning the plot, characters, settings, and conflicts; of making the many writerly decisions that must be made when crafting a story of such length.

Acknowledge your critical role to inspire students to lead readerly and writerly lives in and out of school.

She has spoken on digital marketing topics for the San Francisco Writers Conference, Writerly's Pub Camp in Seattle, and Sisters in Crime.

It explains why you should read the official terms of application for those wildly popular writerly Amtrak Residencies, in case you're hankering to try for one.

For some surgeries, while you may be in pain and may not be eating much, if at all, you could still be capable of doing writerly things.

If you're going to undergo an operation in the future and worry you won't be able to do writerly things, I have some tips for you.

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Finally, Mississippi native Lewis Nordan, whose writerly ancestors include Harry Crews and fellow Mississippians William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, left us bereft last week of an animated voice that regaled us with comic tales of country boys coming of age in a world where freaks and grotesques lurked around every corner of the wild swampy Delta backcountry populated by dirt - poor families.

As an agent with a large social circle of writerly friends, I often find myself in that awkward position of helping pals polish up their query letters.

In quivering moments, take «Boldness be my friend» as a mantra, and charge into battle — in a dignified writerly way, of coursIn quivering moments, take «Boldness be my friend» as a mantra, and charge into battle — in a dignified writerly way, of coursin a dignified writerly way, of course.

Many became sharks in tuna clothing, with all kinds of «respected» writerly establishments starting «self - publishing» divisions that were really Vanity Publishers.

In her nonfiction debut book on love and modern medicine, «Memoirs of a Surgeon's Wife: I'm Throwing Your Damn Pager into the Ocean», and on her weekly blog, The Savvy Surgeon's Wife, she writes about love, parenting, writerly pursuits, and this daring adventure we call life.

In his view, making readers the «new gatekeepers» of published work is an abdication of a writerly responsibility to make that work as strong as it can be.

We spoke with the four #TrueFriends about their writerly friendships and the friends in their latest books.

I'd be hard - pressed to think of something quite like it... Thomas» portrayal of Meg's writerly routine and her struggles with the blank page make this a fantastic book for the buried writer in all of us.

Thomas» portrayal of Meg's writerly routine and her struggles with the blank page make this a fantastic book for the buried writer in all of us.

This column is meant to answer and prompt questions in the hope of dispelling some of these writerly fears.

It's safe to say, at least here in the bunkered security of the Ether, that our good colleague Maass has at times found it necessary to offer not only his keen insights into writerly effectiveness but also his wary views of digital's incursions into the realm.

Well, that, and the other writerly things I'm engaged in, like writing, for instance.

So my new writerly mission is to find the readers out there who are interested in dieselpunk, weird - Western, alternate - history pulp, with titles like Fistful of Reefer.

posted at Notes from An Alien, saying, «The video in this review - post is full of writerly wisdom...»

To some degree, an author's response always has an element of his or her own writerly perspective in it.

I think there is a real hindrance to so much writerly knowledge stuffed in your head.

But in terms of writing as brilliantly as your writerly heroes, it's important to remember the great equalizing forces of the writing process.

In her debut nonfiction book on love and modern medicine, «Memoirs of a Surgeon's Wife: I'm Throwing Your Damn Pager into the Ocean», and on her weekly blog, The Savvy Surgeon's Wife, she writes about love, parenting, writerly pursuits, and this daring adventure we call life.

In sedater and more writerly years Carolyn was invited to become a staff writer at the peerless blog for independent authors, Indies Unlimited.

The other night, as a party of writerly types was winding down, I was caught up in a commercial versus literary discussion.

I think Chuck Wendig, in his blog, exhorted the Writerly masses to Master the «Rules»... and then break them as needed, because at that point you are breaking them for a reason, not just by accident or ignorance.

Another writer who occasionally turns up here — PK Hrezo, said it first in her own Indie Life post — Writerly Friends.

Once you have demonstrated $ 500 in book sales in the last 18 months» time, Robinson tells me, your associate membership dues are $ 90 for the first year, and then calculated thereafter on a formula based on your earnings — you tell them what level of writerly income to factor in.

The CONTEC session is devised for the industry leadership, rather than for the writerly throng with which Fine met in Los Angeles.

But still, long writerly posts look great in G + and community leaders can separate group topics into folders, a solution I wish Facebook would also implement.

That's the outfit that author Russ King gives a writerly chuck on the chin in his FutureBook post, Testing Libboo — an author's view.

Since the good founders of Writer Unboxed, Teri and Kath, have asked me to get at things related to «social» media in my posts here — and since writers are sensitive to how words are used — I want to start us out by putting forward a very writerly idea.