No
longer are writers the obscure creatures behind the penned word.
Gordon A.
Long is a writer, editor, publisher, playwright, director and teacher.
She had
long been a writer, but had never finished a novel, and after an extensive post-group discussion over tea about all things writing, I suggested that we become... Read More
This has lent to a culture and desire for that same interaction with authors; no
longer is a writer this far - off enigma who puts out a book a year and hides in their writing caves until the book signings; oh, no.
Not exact matches
The
long article
is a deep dive into the anxieties of the creative mother and the steps women artists and
writers take to manage their dual role as mothers and creators.
The answer from
writers has always
been, «The only way to write a book
is sit down and type for as
long as it takes.»
So most
writers are open to pitches and ideas as
long as they
're relevant and have the potential to generate an impact among their following.
In 1924 the
writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson observed that «practically every Negro vote
is labeled, sealed, delivered and packed away
long before election.»
These
are just a few of the fundamental rules of copywriting that direct response
writers have
been using for decades to build multi-part content funnels, create compelling landing pages and write
long email chains.
One of the things Buffett likes to remind audiences of
is that when he
was growing up —
long before Dad became America's economic oracle, adviser to Presidents and
writer of op - eds reassuring a depressed nation that all
is not lost — his father
was a supremely successful but largely anonymous investor.
The
writer of this article, a FORTUNE senior editor - at - large,
is a Berkshire Hathaway shareholder, a
long - time friend of Warren Buffett's and the pro bono editor of his annual chairman's letter.
He doesn't write the
longest books, nor
is he the most prolific
writer in the world.
Not
long ago, it used to
be only professional
writers and reporters could get a byline in national publications.
From there, if the
writers like the program, they
are invited to join our year -
long marketing program to learn how to make the most of their book and coaching program.
Beyond
being an incredible song, its chorus became a rallying cry of protesters in the United States — «a kind of comfort that people of color and other oppressed communities desperately need all too often: the hope — the feeling — that despite tensions in this country growing worse and worse, in the
long run, we
're all gon»
be all right,» as Slate culture
writer Aisha Harris put it.
And because, say, Java programmers
are more expensive than HTML
writers, the cost of your site will
be determined by how much of each type of technical expertise your site needs and how
long it takes the shop's techies to finish a job.
«There
's so much pressure with visits when it comes to
long - distance relationships,»
writer Allison Bowsher told HuffPost.
While a university lecturer in Singapore, American travel
writer Paul Theroux recalled
being accosted by his vice chancellor and told his hair
was too
long.
The pair gave the
long - time
writer some interesting insights into the state of Apple, its products, and the path that the company
is on.
«French
writer and philosopher Voltaire noted
long ago that, «Doubt
is not a pleasant condition, but certainty
is absurd.»
The Bitcoin Podcast
is a weekly
long - form conversation featuring guests that
are usually
writers, producers, or instructors in the bitcoin world.
Content
writer with stellar communication & interpersonal skills
is needed for a
long - term, work from home opportunity.
We
're no
longer simply lawyers, or photographers, or
writers.
Long before she embarked upon the journey that
is now the Corporation for Social Security Claiming Strategies, Cheryl
was an avid researcher and
writer as Managing Editor of the Law Review and clerk in the appellate screening division of the Rhode Island Supreme Court where she had several successes.....
To some sports
writers, this has not
been a good thing and they
long for the return of the dynasty teams to love or hate.
This
is what has given many Sci - Fi
writers the idea of the
long - distance traveller returning to Earth after what to him
was a ten year mission, only to find that the Earth he or she knew
was long in the past.
In other words with all the things going on in the world this
long winded ambiguous rant about the religious beliefs of a horror
writer whose name I've barely heard mentioned in the last decade
is being presented as the most important information people need to know at this particular time.
My testament to them
is mundane enough, but it
's the testament any
writer would
long for: I remember their words.
The Bible has
long been a source of inspiration for
writers — most people don't realise just how many phrases from scripture have become embedded... More
Feminist
writers have rightfully
long argued that pornography» promotes a (cultural) climate in which acts of sexual hostility directed against women
are not only tolerated but ideologically encouraged.»
The authors and
writers may not have intended this, but the
longings, desires, and ideas that connect most with people,
are the
longings, desires, and ideas that
are found everywhere within the story of Scripture.
At best, it could have
been a shaman - like vision that Jesus could have experienced after so
long without food, and he related that experience later to someone who maybe later related it to a Gospel
writer, which makes it hearsay at the very least.
If you
're waiting for someone to come along and magically make you a
writer, you will
be waiting a
long time.
But to the
writer God
is no
longer an anthropomorphic deity in the old sense; he
is the one God, omnipotent and altogether righteous, transcendent in majesty and in rightful claim on man's devotion; and his holiness
is expressed in his exclusive right to Israel's worship and service.
Maybe we've evolved intellectually and no
longer believe that God doesn't to people — maybe he never did and the
writers of this tome called the bible
were trying to gat a Pulitzer.
At a recent gathering hosted by The Samuel Bronfman Foundation, which asked precisely that question, just about the only thing the group of leading Jewish scholars,
writers, rabbis, and professors could agree on
was that there
is no
longer one story, narrative, or idea that could hold the totality or even a majority of Jews together.
The
writer of the Psalm only gets to worship God in the temple a couple times a year, and he
is excited to the point of yearning, thirsting,
longing, even fainting to worship God again.
And in Psalm 84:7, the
writer of the Psalm tells us that the
long journey to Jerusalem
is made up of these little rest stops on the road.
You do realize that the entire article we
are commenting on
is one
long proselytizing piece from a Christian making opinion claims that the less intelligent may take as fact because the
writer has a background in science.
The student
is invited to fill in the blank or, more commonly, to accept the answer provided by the
writer of the textbook who simply knows, as everybody supposedly knows, that «traditional» belief and morality
are no
longer relevant.
Now it
is no
longer «men of God writing Scripture as they
were moved by the Holy Spirit» but rather, something like this: «Men of God having inspired ideas which they provided to a professionally - trained letter
writer, who then composed the letter according to standards and guidelines found in a letter - writing manual before getting the approval of the man of God to send the letter out to its intended recipients.»
Although held in theory over a
long period, the belief
was accentuated during the latter part of the nineteenth century and since, and became finally a basic dogma underlying the Japanese Imperial thrust, which
is often regarded as the beginning of World War II.9 The idea
was taught in the schools, in the army, and resulted finally in a fanatical religious, as well as patriotic, devotion to the emperor, without which, it seems to the
writer, it
is impossible to explain the daring attack of the island empire of Japan upon the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States.
As
long as you understand the basic distinction I have briefly laid out above, and recognize that most teachers and
writers are going to
be a little confused on this topic, you can benefit from what they teach and write by making the little mental adjustment in your mind to whatever they
are saying.
Hymn
writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens
is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians
are discovering that they can not, as Peter Gomes has said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations
long past.»
That strange land in which hymn
writers and other worshipers find themselves aliens
is a period of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians
are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends of the piety of generations
long past.»
My church had succumbed to
writer Richard Rohr's prediction, «When the church
is no
longer teaching the people how to pray, we could almost say it will have lost its reason for existence,» Yet in the congregations I have visited, silence, meditation and contemplation
were commonplace, and many new members testified to the spiritual attraction of prayer.
His writing
is fantastic too, even if his quote - studded posts
are often too
long to maintain the non-specialist's interest (so says the
writer of 3,000 - word posts about why The Bangles
were better in 1983 than in 1987!).
But really, when you consider how much praise and attention
is heaped on lyric
writers, its astonishing how rare it
is for any of its great exponents to try to dig a little deeper (or at least ramble on a little
longer) than a three minute pop song allows.
Against Goldhagen, Littell wants to defend «senior scholars» who have spent decades pressing the case for serious research of the Holocaust «
long before any young
writer or eager publisher could capitalize on the brute fact that today «there
's no business like Shoah business.
For example, that the cosmology assumed by the Biblical
writers is prescientific and untenable had
long been evident.