Sentences with phrase «just about all fiction»

It conjures up an image that resonates with just about all fiction writers.

While I'm not a thriller writer, the information in this article is applicable to just about all fiction writing.

Not exact matches

General Motors, Toyota, Nissan, Volkswagen, Fiat - Chrysler, BMW, and just about every other auto company are wading — some cautiously and some with big, headline - grabbing moves — into territory that executives in Detroit and elsewhere not long ago considered a science - fiction fantasy.

Nothing on that site would be considered proof, just excuses being made in an attempt to reconcile the bibles fiction with what we now know about the world around us.

I just read about their history and can't believe anyone would fall for that crap... In fact if you took away the Racism, Child Molestation, Treason, Blasphemy, Archeological Fiction... It was just be Christanity LOL

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

If we assume the bible is more than just bad fiction, an antagonictic Egypt could mean some biblical prophecy is about to come true.

If you are a believer, or just love a good book, check out my historical fiction novel about the Magi and the Nativity: http://www.epiphany-site.com.

To take just one example, in arguing that few contemporary writers take on the fundamental question of belief versus unbelief, Elie dismisses Alice McDermott's fiction as being merely about Irish Catholic New Yorkers from the 1950s and»60s.

Just throw it away, treat it as it is, a work of fiction, like ANY other book written about Zeus, Apollo, Thor, Odin, or any other «god».

Just about the time one gets ready to seize upon an interesting detail, for good or ill, Bloom makes reference to the detail as «my fiction.»

Interesting discussion — Totally agree about the «punching above their weight» problem with the current spate of «popular» atheists and junk writers, as well as the «Hollywood» treatment of Pullman, but you don't need to wade through Pullman's trilogy to get a useful insight into institutionalism vs genuine spirituality — just pick up the excellent «The Dragon in the Sea» by Dune author Frank Herbert or «The Moon is a Harsh Mistress» by Robert Heinlien — great works from the Golden Age of Science Fiction literature.

It's fact versus fiction and just like Bill Nye said we need a new generation of critically thinking people who can help humanity progress and religion is about keeping things stuck in a vacuum.

If this then is to be understood bluntly, just as a matter of course, without the least reservation, to be taken quite unconcernedly and flippantly — then, if paganism's poetic fiction about the gods might be called human craziness, Christianity might be the invention of a crazy god; such a doctrine could only occur to a god who had lost his wits — so a man must judge who had kept his wits.

We have a great selection of Canadian products as well like Jump Math, Professor Noggins card games, and all kinds of fiction, historical fiction, and non-fiction titles to cover just about any topic.

I mean, we could say, we have these names for plants and animals, and they're just our own little fictions about what's going on.

But we can surely all agree that for decades the man has been writing fiction about science, and that his visions of the dangers of as - yet - uninvented, or only - just - invented technologies have influenced the way we think more than those of any other living novelist.

With summer just around the corner, Baumann and Diane Madfes, a clinical professor of dermatology at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, give us the facts and fiction about 10 home skin therapies.

I bet you will shock your doctor when you correct them about energy and that «calories» are not stuff, just some unit we use to measure an invented mathematical fiction, some useful.

But because I am a woman vocal about my sexuality, and the benefits of open sexual dialog — either because I do write erotic fiction or do participate in «adult» online communities — apparently not just my words are to be treated as masturbatory material — I am as well.

If Quentin Tarantino had just cloned Pulp Fiction in Kill Bill would anybody have cared about the film?

For a genre that's supposed to be about carefully considering the possibilities of the future, science fiction too often feels just as slick and mindless a genre as any other.

Yes the writing could be stronger and I have to suspend my disbelief each episode with how flagrantly indescrete these terrorists are... but then again truth being stranger than fiction the cell thought brought about 9/11 were just as indiscrete.

All films are a work of fiction, that much is obvious, and a lot of them are prone to exaggerations, even biographical films, but there's something just so heavy - handed about the way this film presents its story, its world and its characters that's really off - putting.

What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.

While cult films range from campy science fiction to highly graphic horror movies and just about everything in between, there are a few characteristics that most cult films share:

How many times has someone else been outraged about a particular film and you said «It's just a movie... it's a work of fiction?»

He still writes about movies and crime fiction, but just for fun.

Just as modernist painting bears the traces of the painter's movements and presence, and modernist literature has moved toward the first - person essay, the autobiography, and the diary, so the strain of modernist filmmaking that was launched with the French New Wave has integrated the filmmaker's methods with the movie itself, and turned fictions into documentaries about their making.

He's remained sane by refusing to accept the Indians» common humanity, but just as he's about to retire he's given a final mission which makes that fiction impossible to sustain.

Though the film begins with a snappy history lesson about the circumstances that led to the Iranian hostage crisis in 1979, this thumbnail history just provides the context for an audacious, stranger - than - fiction CIA mission to extract six American hostages from their tenuous hidey - hole in the Canadian ambassador's home.

Verhoeven is chiefly remembered for his ability to pull off social commentary through science fiction better than just about anyone else in the game.

The first is dubbed «Fiction» and runs about twenty - five minutes, the second is naturally «Non-fiction» and is just over an hour long.

Although too intense for little children and too juvenile for older teens, The Neverending Story's message of using literature to explore real life issues coupled with a discussion about the balance between a growing imagination and keeping one's feet an the ground, could make this movie more than just the ultimate in escape fiction for «tweens.

There are gags about War Games and Pulp Fiction and just how long it's been since Captain America's last kiss.

The sexual tension between a curly - haired, side - whiskered Doc and the former prom queen - turned aspiring hippie starlet - turned kept woman is palatable, and fuels the fiction, yet, as any respectable PI, Doc meets a lot of available ladies throughout, whether he beds them or not: Jena Malone (a classic California blonde with a sordid heroin past), Reese Witherspoon (a hard - as - nail but o so classy deputy D.A.), Maya Rudolph (too sexy to be «just a receptionist»), Hong Chau (an employee of the «Chick Planet» massage parlour, who warns him about the Golden Fang gang), newcomer Sasha Fenway (as Japonica Fenway, a poor little rich girl who can't find enough mischief to commit), Yvette Yates (as the hot Chicana maid who thrusts her butt in Doc's direction while serving drinks to her mistress), Joanne Newsom (as the elusive Sortilège) and the fabulous Jeannie Berlin as Doc's I - know - it - all formidable auntie.

The «no reason» speech from Rubber could easily apply to just about everything that happens in Wrong, but then again, it could also apply to any exercise in fiction.

It's glorious pulp fiction elevated to genre art, full of both Mamet's cynicism about the corruption of big business (just substitute Hollywood for the martial arts league) and his romantic ideals of men in military service and men dedicated to a higher purpose.

Edgar Rice Burroughs» tale of an ordinary man who mysteriously transports to Mars, first serialized in 1912, is the template for just about every piece of fantastical science fiction that has come after.

The 37 - year - old actor was just in attendance to support the conversion all about urban future in science and fiction.

The panel, «Imagining a Bigger World — Marvel's Black Panther, Cultural Heritage and STEM,» wasn't just about how neat the upcoming Marvel movie looks, but how science - fiction can encourage young people from black communities to pursue STEM careers.

The book, with the decidedly un-PG title «Cum For Bigfoot,» is just the first of 16 fiction ebooks that Wade (a pen name) has written about the legendary beast sometimes known as Sasquatch, each detailing a series of graphic and often violent sexual encounters between the apelike creature and his female human lovers.

I didn't worry about what was fact or fiction, I just took it as it was.

Don't forget that a fiction book proposal does more than just explain what your novel is about.

It was about a year after this phenomenal success we've had with Surviving Off Off - Grid and so I thought you know, this is going to be easy, I'm just going to do a fiction book and it's going to have the same results and it didn't.

It looks like the site includes more than just Christian fiction too, with additional information about cookbooks on sale and the like.

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Clever titles are great, and stick in the memory just like they do for fiction books, but you need to add a subtitle (see next blog on this topic) just below to describe what your book is about.

On the subject of flash fiction (which, by the way, is just another term for very short stories), if you sign up to my book launch emailing list (only used when I've got a new book to shout about), you'll be able to download a free ebook of my own flash fiction collection, Quick Change.

As a long - time fan of Science Fiction, it's been interesting to see the genre grow and grow, to the point where it is now just about everywhere.