Sentences with phrase «making a living at fiction»

But just as if you don't need a buggy whip to start your car, you don't need an agent to sell a book, or a traditional publisher to make a living at fiction writing.

The only way these writers made a living at their fiction writing was write bestsellers.

Most don't even have careers in the first place because they aren't making a living at their fiction.

Not exact matches

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But by and large, this sequel feels like bad fan fiction come to life, adopting a superficial similarity to what it is imitating, but at every step of the way betraying a fundamental misunderstanding of what made the first tick.

I live in Toronto, Ontario and make my living writing science fiction and fantasy; I also review books and teach writing online at UCLA.

Unfortunately, writers of short fiction (and fiction in general) have rarely been able to make a living at it.

The Invisibles By Cecilia Galante Morrow • $ 14.99 • ISBN 9780062363510 The author of several popular YA and children's books makes her adult fiction debut with the moving story of four young women — close friends when they lived together at a group home for teens — who reunite 15 years later and confront the troubles from their past.

(Nothing wrong at all with that, but for this discussion, I'm talking about making a living with your fiction.)

Kris and I have walked away from many, many contracts that had bad clauses that we just wouldn't sign and we negotiate everything and we still make our living at this business of fiction writing.

So here the GOAL is to get up electronically as many things as possible while mailing as many submissions and manuscripts to traditional publishers at the same time to get to the DREAM of making a living with your fiction.

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Very few traditionally - published authors make their living solely on the basis of what they publish, at least initially (and this is especially true of fiction writers, many of whom write their first novels while working as teachers, lawyers, or other professionals).

Award - winning author ReShonda Tate Billingsley, whose bestselling fiction «tackles some of life's toughest situations» (The Florida Times - Union), unravels the secrets in a mother's past that turn her daughter's life upside down — by revealing the family she never knew existed.Her dream of studying dance at Juilliard is within reach, but Olivia Dawson turns down the opportunity, choosing instead to stay with her ailing mother in the Houston projects where they barely make ends meet.

If you look at Halo 1, 2 and 3 and know the origin story and know the fiction well, Master Chief is our hero, he is you, and he is saving humanity... but its been at a huge cost to his life and there are things going on — you saw them in 4 — that make him question who is calling the shots.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

If there is no greater fiction than the real, why do we still insist on making sense of our lives by taking and looking at photographs that are fictions in and of themselves?