Sentences with phrase «just writers of fiction»

There are several good grammar sites around, most notably Grammar Girl, but they do tend to focus on theory and get deep into the detail, and they're for a wide audience, not just writers of fiction.

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These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

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.

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.

Makumbi is one of eight writers to receive Windham Campbell Prizes this year spanning fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry — and is the only winner to have published just one full - length work.

Science Fiction has to be well written and internally consistent if it's to engage and hold an audience but V just comes across as (yet another) TV series written by non-sci fi writers who don't have a grasp of the genre.

I've been an avid science fiction reader and movie goer for many years and a writer for just a couple of years.

The questions get bigger still in the final chapters, which concern the nature of being human and the idea that, just as the science fiction writers of yesteryear couldn't predict this modern world, we don't know if people, sentient robots, and unforeseeable next - gen tech will play nicely together.

I wrote in my review of the film: «With Ex Machina, Alex Garland shows that he's just as talented as a director as he is a writer, and that he should definitely keep challenging the science fiction genre.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner is a good book for authors just starting out to keep in the back pocket.

The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America have just announced the 2014 Nebula award winners.

Endings are a very complex area of fiction writing and this lecture is designed to just touch on certain elements of endings, to help writers become aware of the skills and art needed to create endings that will leave readers satisfied.

Each year, hundreds of veteran authors and those just learning the craft of Christian fiction gather in a setting like this to hear skilled instructors, inspiring keynoters... to gain from the insights of industry professionals... to interact with other writers... and to present their ideas to agents and editors looking for stories like theirs, or to mentors who can help them move forward in their writing career.If you write Christian fiction — or want to learn how — the ACFW conference is an investment worth making.

For fiction writing, I've gotten more out of just writing and submitting, and out of getting feedback from other fiction writers.

Just to give one example, I got to know Ben Wolf, editor - in - chief of Splickety Publishing Group, through the Florida Christian Writers Conference and the Realm Makers speculative fiction conference.

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If you are a lover of pulp fiction or just thinking about honing your craft to be a better writer, there is a great online resource called iPulpFiction!

Verdict: 5 - Stars I sincerely hope that Brad Thor is just a great fiction writer because if he's not, if he's simply writing the truth, America is in a lot of trouble.

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I'd dare to claim that GoodReads is potentially one of the most important places for an author to spend time online and I'd also highlight the fact that Goodreads is NOT just for fiction writers.

First time writer of fiction urban the book is base on two homic just doing shit to get they sick off and on a robber sprees

Case Study: Amazon Best Selling Book in Just One Day — With Facebook Ads: Meet a contrarian author, H. Ann Ackroyd of TransomPress.com, a Historical Fiction writer.

For example, a lot of people swear by Mark Dawson's course, however I recently chatted with him and he was pretty up front with me that his technique is really just for fiction and I wouldn't get a lot out of it as a NF writer.

It's a membership organization for writers of speculative fiction, just as (for instance) MWA is a membership organization for writers of mysteries.

I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's just a weakness of fiction writers.

The short fiction market is booming and short fiction should just be a part of any business plan for a fiction writer.

I just returned from Romance Writers of America, which is a conference dedicated to all genres of romantic fiction.

That notion calls to mind three recent posts here at Writer Unboxed: one by Dave King on how much he's learned about dialog from Aaron Sorkin; a second by Kathleen McCleary on how incredibly helpful reading fiction has been for her current work in progress; and just yesterday Greer Macallister's exploration of writing lessons to be learned from the hit play Hamilton.

In a manner similar to the site's pre-existing self - publishing e-book platform, Kindle Worlds will allow writers of fan fiction the chance to profit from something they'd probably be doing for free anyway, with or without an audience, albeit at a much lower rate than if they, say, changed the characters and settings from Twilight just enough to be legally discernible and then maybe added anal beads or something.

Just not something that comes up in the «training» of being a fiction writer.

But I believe a piece - of - shit book is a piece - of - shit book, and I don't believe a book should be considered literary fiction just because a writer says it is.

As is normal with most fiction writers, any thoughts of logical business just flew out the window with the sudden new power and control over their own work.

Non-literary readers have long wondered why readers (and writers) of literary fiction are drawn toward «certain kinds» of books, whether they be difficult to read — as in Ulysses by James Joyce — stylistically unique, which can also make them difficult (think Thomas Pynchon) or just plain boring as in... well, I can't name anything, because I happen to enjoy literary fiction and I DO N'T think it's boring.

Ian Martyn presents 7 key things I've learnt from a year of blogging posted at Ian Martyn — Science Fiction Writer, saying, «Its hard to believe I've been blogging for a year on all things, scifi, writing or that just interest me.

As serious writers, you know it's through the editing process that we begin to refine and sculpt our messages.But just as writing flash fiction requires a different set of skills, so does editing flash fiction.

But here's a general shout - out about your new book: I'm just a chapter or two away from finishing, and it is full of great, useful information across the spectrum of publishing issues for fiction and nonfiction writers alike.

I believe just the opposite: not only is flash fiction cultivating a new kind of writer but also a new kind of reader.

Self - published business authors are just as guilty of this as self - published fiction writers.

She is also a member of Science Fiction Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, and Romance Writers of America, just to make sure she's covered.

Just as I did, more writers are recognising that we have a copious amount of material for speculative fiction here in Nigeria.

Sometimes it's important to clarify the setting or time period; science fiction and fantasy writers may need to add a bit of world - building context (not much, just a feel).

Jim served as fiction columnist for Writer's Digest magazine, to which he frequently contributes, and has written five craft books for Writer's Digest Books: Plot & Structure, Revision & Self - Editing, The Art of War for Writers, Conflict & Suspense and Just Write.

Romance authors earned 170 % more than their peers, while authors in other genres fared much worse: science - fiction writers earned 38 % of the $ 10,000 average, fantasy writers 32 %, and literary fiction authors just 20 % of the $ 10,000 average.

We just heard that the SFWA the Science Fiction Writers of America is now opened up to indies office, and the organization I'm in the ITW International Thriller Writers is open and so is RWA, Romance Writers of America.

For her first outing as a biennial artistic director, Stephanie Rosenthal (chief curator at the Hayward Gallery, London, since 2007) has adopted the words of science - fiction writer William Gibson as the show's title and theme: «The Future is Already Here — It's Just Not Evenly Distributed.»

When science fiction writer Bruce Sterling introduced the notion of «atemporality for creative artists» he crystallised a powerful new notion, not just in art but in life.

In his 1988 essay «Lightness,» published in the compendium Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino likens the writer's creative act to an indirect gaze on the world; just as Perseus defeated Medusa by following her movement in the reflection of his shield, the strength of the literary imagination is in a writer's ability to wade through the opacity of our literal world through the transformation of fact into fiction; subverting what Calvino describes as the «petrification» or «the weight» of ideas through the lightness of mythology and its visionary language.

Just a month after a science fiction writer speculated on storage devices the size of a grain of sand comes news from the magazine Science of developments in magnetic anisotropy that could eventually be used to store information in individual atoms, paving the way to pack as much as 150 trillion bits of data per square inch, 1,000 times more than current data storage densities.