That's my one slice of advice: above all, put your efforts
into becoming a better writer.
Not exact matches
Before
becoming one of the world's
best - known comic strip
writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving
into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.
As an entrepreneur, business expert and the founder of B School, Marie Forleo regularly publishes how - to style videos that provide deep dives
into challenges current and future business owners face like how to say no to an opportunity or how to
become a
better writer.
The foreigner who submitted to circumcision and who manifested loyalty to Israel's faith and institutions
became a
good Israelite; to employ a famous phrase of a later
writer, he was grafted
into the stock of Abraham.
The
best answer comes from Leon Bloy, a
writer who himself chose to
become a Catholic: «Man has places in his heart which do not yet exist,» wrote Bloy, «and
into them enters suffering, that they might have existence.»
Well, now it's a real race because both those films have suddenly
become forces to be reckoned with, surging back
into popularity with the guilds, most notably the
Writers and Producers Guilds, making many wonder if either or both can make the leap to
Best Picture.
Those of us who'd like to see
better representation and treatment of women in our entertainment have been happy to see that conversation
become fairly mainstream and unavoidable lately, but
writer and actor Simon Pegg really wishes that all that talk would translate
into more actual change.
«He seems to be working on
becoming a
better Batman than Batman even is — not by fighting crime, but by controlling it,» says
writer Judd Winick, who adapted his 2005 - 06 comic storyline
into the screenplay.
Boone and
writers Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber know what a difficult task they have in adapting John Green's
best - selling novel, about a tentative romance between two cancer - stricken teenagers,
into a durable screen product that will appeal to younger target audience without quickly
becoming a punchline for everyone else.
Too many
writers focus on
becoming a successful author, in comparison to the hard work that actually goes
into completing a
well structured and compelling manuscript.
You will get insight
into high - quality academic writing, which will eventually help you
become a
better writer and start working on your own projects.
I believe authors who blog
become better writers because unlike fiction, which requires the
writer to immerse themselves
into their imagination, blogging, which is mostly nonfiction, requires a different type of thought process.
Now many of you will argue that this assessment is
best left to readers (who will vote with their pocket books as
well as airing their online opinions) but it exhausts me to think of all the half - baked e-books that might end up out there, just as it worries me that aspiring
writers are
becoming ever more impatient to release material before it has been crafted
into the
best possible shape.
Born in a one - room cabin in southwest Virginia, Hill
became a lawyer and
writer, and in the latter capacity met famed steel magnate, philanthropist and powerbroker Andrew Carnegie, who gave him the idea of studying successful people to determine The Law of Success (the title of his original book series), as
well as an entrée
into their circles.
King also maintains that
becoming a
good writer isn't easy: «[I] f you don't want to work [hard], you have no business trying to write
well — settle back
into competency and be grateful you have even that much to fall back on.»
Together, they discuss the essential elements that go
into persuasive legal writing and share their ideas on how lawyers can
become better writers.