Sentences with phrase «months or years writing»

I wonder how many people who got offended would spend months or years writing blog posts for $ 0.00 in order to get their name and art out there.

What do you get when you cross the challenge of properly formatting the Look Inside with the lack of a Look Inside preview and indie authors who have spent months or years writing, editing, and formatting their work?

As a writer, why should I spend months or years writing a book only to get, if I'm lucky, 25 % of net and, from that, having to pay for my own editing (if I want to make sure it is edited properly) and my own promotion when I can get 70 % if I self - publish through Amazon?

But if you have spent months or years writing your book, you may not want the narrator to make as much as you do off of your story.

No one sits down to spend a few months or years writing a novel thinking «wow, if this book is priced too high the Kindle readers will just move on to another book priced more reasonably with which they'll be just as happy.»

You've spent months or years writing your book.

Not exact matches

It's one thing to write years when you mean months, or days when you mean nights.

«The large majority of individual major events — ranging from the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand 100 years ago through to 9/11 and recent events in Iraq and Ukraine — impact major stock markets by around 10 % or less, with the effect being fully reversed within a month or so,» he wrote in a note to clients.

As I recall, the stock did double, or more, but not for 2 - 3 years... and long after Porter had written, only months after his May debacle, that the stock was no longer a good long - term investment.

Just last month, it was reported that Credit Suisse strategist Andrew Garthwaite lamented dismal yields for the past couple years in a client report, writing that «his team has come across almost no one who seems to have outperformed or made decent returns this year» and «we have never had so many client meetings starting with statements such as «we are totally lost».»

During a nearly seven - year period beginning in 2005, JPMorgan charged credit card customers $ 7.99 to $ 11.99 a month for services such as monitoring their accounts for fraud and identity theft without receiving written authorization or before such authorization was given, the consumer bureau said.

Each time, I realize that those desires and dreams I plainly wrote out months, or even years, previously come to pass.

You couldn't trust the accuracy or the authenticity of a story written down a month after the supposed happening, much less something written down the staggering 60 years, 100 years, 200 years after all the «jesus said» and «jesus did» parts of the bible supposedly happened.

I never spoke to her or wrote to her again in all the subsequent years, and I have never had a single moment of loving thought towards one who for so many months entirely filled my heart.

Can you believe it's been nearly 4 years since I first started writing a monthly recipe page for them... I know that pride is a sin but when I look at my work in print I do get a little puffed up with pride and if you ever see me in a paper shop or local supermarket I will always keep an eye out for this months edition and make sure it's clearly visible and looking tidy.

In the mid-nineteenth century, experts admonished mothers to feed infants a liquid diet of breast milk or modified cow's milk for most of their first year.8 A pediatrician writing in the twentieth century described the practice as «the grandmothers» aphorism, «only milk until the eruption of molars» (12 - 16 months).

Paterson — overlooking the billions in tax hikes he has signed into law or proposed over the last 18 months — wrote that deficit borrowing would saddle New Yorkers with a «dysfunction tax» for years to come.

Payne and two other scientists wrote a letter to the U.S. delegation at the United Nations» climate change summit this month suggesting that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change require nations to use a 10 - year global warming potential, or GWP10, in their emissions inventory.

Writing a dissertation, after all, can take several months — or even years — out of a graduate student's life.

Nothing is more frustrating when you're assembling figures or writing up your results months or years after data collection than not being able to piece together how an experiment was performed.

Set aside time each day or week to write down your goals and intentions for the day, the week, the month and the year.

You will find lots of great communication features such as chat rooms, community forums and when a members was last logged on; so that you don't waste your time writing to people that haven't been on in months or even years.

An active member is defined as a member who writes regular film criticism for online publications, published with a minimum frequency of once a month or at least 20 reviews per year.

«In the classroom, online safety or digital citizenship should not be discussed during a designated month; instead, students should hear it from all teachers and the components should be woven across the curriculum all year long,» writes Shaelynn Farnsworth.

Results of its sixth annual literacy survey of more than 32 000 eight - to 18 - year - olds, released this month, show 44.8 per cent said they enjoy writing very much or quite a lot in 2015 — down from 49.3 per cent the previous year and 10 per cent lower than the 2015 figure for enjoyment of reading.

Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m / cm / mm); mass (kg / g); volume / capacity (l / ml) Measure the perimeter of simple 2 - D shapes Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both # and p in practical contexts Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12 - hour and 24 - hour clocks Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o'clock, am / pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year Compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]

Objectives covered: Measure, compare, add and subtract: lengths (m / cm / mm); mass (kg / g); volume / capacity (l / ml) Measure the perimeter of simple 2 - D shapes Add and subtract amounts of money to give change, using both # and p in practical contexts Tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12 - hour and 24 - hour clocks Estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o'clock, am / pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight Know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year Compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks]

In this lesson, learners will be able: to tell and write the time from an analogue clock, including using Roman numerals from I to XII, and 12 - hour and 24 - hour clocks estimate and read time with increasing accuracy to the nearest minute; record and compare time in terms of seconds, minutes and hours; use vocabulary such as o'clock, am / pm, morning, afternoon, noon and midnight know the number of seconds in a minute and the number of days in each month, year and leap year compare durations of events [for example, to calculate the time taken by particular events or tasks] This lesson contains 77 interactive pages with lots of drag and drop activities and worksheet for extended work.

«There's clearly a slam - dunk case for eliminating — or at least dramatically shortening — summer vacation,» Chingos writes, «But ending summer vacation isn't as simple as passing a law extending the school year by roughly two months — it has to be paid for somehow.»

Writing in The Guardian last month, Warwick Mansell pointed out that of the 447 schools rated inadequate, more than one in four — 123 — had failed their Ofsted a year or more ago and had not yet converted to academy status, or been recorded by the DfE as planned for academisation.

After putting months, if not years, into a manuscript don't leave this critically important step up to proofing software or an inexperienced editor (i.e. your daughter who recently graduated with an English degree or your best friend's spouse who writes a nifty blog.)

Some people can finish a book in two or three months, while others need to devote an entire year to the writing of one book.

You've put months or years into writing your book.

Some purists will claim that it takes five years to write a novel, four and a half of which are spent in a deep depression because no writing is getting done, six months of which are spent actually writing and even then for only an hour or so a day.

Each year, November is «national novel writing month,» or NaNoWriMo (as the hip kids call it).

This can include writing and publishing reviews of her work, sharing or liking her content or updates on social media over a series of months (even years!)

The next time another author questions my ability to write because I don't spend months or years on a single title, I'm going to refer them to this blog.

Something that takes you six months or a year to write... shouldn't be the same price as the Christmas pencils in the dollar bin at Target.»

Last year I decided I was ready and wrote Numen the Slayer in six months, which is a new record for me because it usually takes me a year or two to write a whole book.

Now, it goes without saying that the underlying premise of this technique is that an author can write novels so quickly that he or she can produce a number of titles in reasonably short order — say, within a year — then be able to «write and edit in two months» yet another book.

After all, you've spent months or even years writing, plowed through the necessary editing, and then invested your time, money, and energy into launching your book into the world.

Trust Joel and me, nonetheless, that if you write a great book, and put in some true creative effort in marketing it every day for several years (not only weeks or months), that the free reviews will come with most of these reviews being 4 - star and 5 - star.

Well, some rejection letters have caused authors to spend months or years rewriting their books... or give up on their writing completely.

It is incredible how many people spend months or even years writing a wonderful eBook and then produce an eBook with a lousy cover.

After months or years of writing, rewriting, editing and re-editing, just getting through the publishing wizard feels like a monumental accomplishment.

I met Barbara Freethy at the London Book Fair, and I think she really struck me, because she's just such a kind of nice, quiet, normal lady, what a good businesswoman, but the fact is, she has thirty - eight books and she's been writing for twenty years, so if you actually do the math, at thirty - eight books, you only have to sell 500 or so a month, of each of those books, and you do make a lot of money.

I try to do a handful of writing contests or giveaways each year — these could include publishing or book marketing help, cool stuff only authors could appreciate, or bigger things like a free resort stay in Mexico or a month's writing retreat in a castle.

The subject of the beautifully written and illustrated Mansa Musa is a few years in the life of Kankan Musa, one of the greatest kings, or mansas, of 14th century Mali the African kingdom that used to be «four months» travel long and four months» wide,» and that, according to legend, sent explorers to the New World years before Columbus.

After nearly a year in the making, an alpha launch, and an initial user base of over 2,000 people, I'm happy to announce that my co-founder and I will be launching the public beta of Write or Read this month.

Whether you're doing NaNoWriMo this year, saving your writing marathon for another month — or against the whole idea — there's something for you in this issue.