Sentences with phrase «longer fiction piece»

Maybe you need an exercise to start a short story or need to do some prewriting for plot or character development for a longer fiction piece.

Not exact matches

Wow, one more crappy long boring piece of fiction... that's quite the imagination you have Austin - did you by chance damage your brain in the crash?

Oliva is able to take his long time directing and storyboard artist experience along with screenplay writer J.M. DeMatteis and craft a highly entertaining and gripping piece of Batman fiction.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

Although the film takes an awfully long time to get going, The Black Hole eventually establishes itself as an engaging (albeit distinctly uneven) piece of science fiction.

Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»

As technology develops, so we have less time than we did to devote to reading, in isolation, long pieces of fiction.

Since electronic reading devices (and to some extent laptops for that matter) make reading long pieces of writing less enjoyable, we have chosen to dedicate the journal to «short fiction,» in this case, fiction which is approximately 1500 words or less in length.

Atavist's Evan Ratliff spoke with GoodeReader at this year's DBW event to talk about how that popularity has led to even more platforms growing up to meet the need for novella length digital fiction and pieces of journalism that would have once been considered impossibly long for print media.

The potential for a renewed interest in short stories — stand - alone fiction that will no longer have to wait to be anthologized or published as a collection — as well as timely pieces of non-fiction on current world events means that readers without the time or inclination to tackle longer pieces of literature can now fill their reading needs with shorter and less pricey ebooks.

Long hailed as the grand master of adventure fiction, Clive Cussler has continued to astound with the intricate plotting and astonishing set pieces of his novels.

This free sampler contains the first 6 chapters of Credence Foundation (A Science Fiction Novel) A detective tasked with solving the seemingly impossible murder of an influential scientist finds a clue that leads him to Credence, a corporation of the future that uses mass beliefs to change reality and send spaceships on the other side of the universe.Suspecting that the murderer had himself flushed in and out of the crime scene using Credence's technology, Detective Trumaine readies his trap.In a frantic chase through his mind, long - forgotten memories from a tragic past, as well as virtual environments, he will finally put together the missing pieces of the most unbelievable plan ever to affect mankind.It's a novel of about 74,000 words...

Just like a longer piece of fiction, your flash piece needs a beginning, a middle, and an ending.

Having recently been interviewed by author Jay Lemming on the subject of literary fiction (link to interview follows this post), I rashly agreed to write a longer piece on how I came to find the indie publisher who published my work of literary fiction (and subsequent novel), Vagabondage Press.

I've meanwhile expanded the little draft I knocked off into a longer piece of flash fiction — Thanks all for the promt and impetus!

Since electronic reading devices (and to some extent laptops for that matter) make reading long pieces of writing less enjoyable, we have chosen to dedicate the journal to flash fiction.

Now, I've finished my piece of serialized fiction; it's 4 episodes for the time being, 100k + words in total, not that long — but it will be another 4 episodes and another 100k words coming next year (or sooner, I'm a fast writer) if this one sells.

I started your Flash Fiction course, but even that was a challenge — I haven't finished it (I've come up with all my ideas but haven't started the actual writing), but I know for a fact that each of those «500 word pieces) will be at least 3000 words or longer.

The frame of mind you write in for short fiction is naturally going to be different than for longer pieces.

I guess everyone wants a piece of trendy tech and, unfortunately, there aren't trendy tech reading devices and I don't think people are reading long - form fiction on their phones.

Instead of having really poor character - specific still screenshots and horrific voiceovers once the final boss has been defeated, here we have one long story encompassing all characters - playable and non-playable - in one joined - up piece of fiction.

Time travel has a long history in the world of fiction, forming the centre piece of some of the most beloved works of fiction, including Back to the Future and Doctor Who.

No longer a piece of science fiction or part of a silly television show, a decentralized internet is inevitably becoming a reality.