Sentences with phrase «most of my short stories»

Dahl's work, especially The Witches, really captured my imagination as a child, and in high school and college I read most of his short stories.

And bad covers on most of my short stories (see: marketing).

Because of the current system, I've stopped uploading most of my short stories and book bundles to Amazon.

Not exact matches

«I'll keep this simple and short because I can tell this story without a lot of added fluff: Brent is one of the smartest and most passionate marketers and strategists I have ever met.

A short chapter on the following 10 years, among the most volatile since the early»70s, credits Teck with «a classic recovery story which deserves a full chapter in the next edition of Never Rest on Your Ores.»

Known as Snip, this innovative news site delivers short, to - the - point summaries < br / > of the day's most important stories and events.

It's not like a thousand eyewitness accounts of an event, where they'd vary in the details but generally agree on the most important aspects, it's more like a thousand people who were asked to right a short story about anything they wanted.

I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

And it's unlike any other book I've ever written, for in addition to the memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay — all aimed at capturing the wonder and beauty of Scripture, while honoring the best in biblical scholarship and acknowledging the challenges of its most difficult passages.

I wanted to spend a short time telling you this hard time we had and spend most of the time telling you the amazing story of how that all changed.

To exploit the part of the story where Sherrod is most vulnerable, most open about the darkness within herself that she must overcome, is nothing short of sacrilege.

Sirs: Here is the short story of a most unusual series of golf shots that your column readers might be interested in.

Long story short: we've done it before (as have most of the top Premiership clubs) so AW does have a shot with Paulista.

The three short pieces feature «SouthSide Sailor Scouts» (think: Beyonce - meets - Selena - meets song, dance and stories), Peter Carpenter's «Rituals of Abundance for Lean Times # 7: Divisions of Labor» (one part humorous and two parts conversation starter) and The Hypocrites» «Midsummer Dream» (a retelling of Shakespeare's most popular comedy as told by four actors, who also double as production designers).

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, most 4 - year - olds can create short sentences and should be able to retell a story in basic words.

Your child rarely asks questions or often lets adults do most of the talking, speaks only in short phrases and sentences, or seldom adds additional information to a story.

Point of story, i know kids SHOULD taste and eat all sorts of things, that kids should eat what's on the table and not have a short order cook, and i agree totally that they CAN eat the type of lunch pictured above, but one thing DOES bother me: Kids NEED fuel for their day, and i don't think giving them something completely new and fancy as a lunch is a great idea as the lunch will most likely end up still in the lunch box at the end of the day and you will have a famished child waiting for dinner.

For example, here when writing Long Story Short you draw attention of readers on the most important benefits of a potty chair.

On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction Karl Iagnemma, The Dial Press, $ 22.95 A computer technician who thinks he's found the mathematical equation for romance and a botanist who secretly yearns for the author of her field's most trusted text are two of the protagonists in a spellbinding collection of short stories from Iagnemma, a roboticist and fiction writer at MIT.

For my own short film, Many Worlds, algorithms use brainwaves, muscle tension, perspiration and heart rate in a selection of the audience to adjust the story in real time, choosing the most appropriate of the film's four narratives to maximise intensity.

More on this in the sample routine below, but long story short, you need to understand what TYPES of running hinder your lifting the most (hint: mostly sprints and hill climbs - those runs that heavily engage your type II muscle fibers), and plan accordingly.

my understanding of regular potatoes any color skin flesh etc. is this... potatoes are on the dirty dozen list... sweet potatoes are on the clean 15... i eat over 50 % of my diet in the form of a few different colors of sweet potatoes... i buy them bulk... peel»em very deeply... at least 1/2 inch all around... i sometimes get them as large as 6 pounds (football sized)... i used to wear out the regular potatoes but after speaking with the safety expert from a huge potato company to find out if the potatoes are grown on soil which had grain crops treated with round - up herbicide filled with atrazine and glyphosate (which most grain crops are... inluding many wheat crops... they get sprayed like 3 days before harvest... then the round - up is in the soil)... problem is... the round - up stays for 7 years... after stayin» off the soil for a couple years... it can have any kind of crop planted on it and get an organic rating... but... whatever was planted on that soil is then full of round - up... so... this crop rotation onto fields which had grain crops sprayed with round - up herbicide etc. is EXTREMELY COMMON IN THE GROWING PRACTICE FOR REGULAR POTATOES... very common practice... so even if you peel»em deeply... they are still soaked with round - up... the glyphosates get in the gut... the aluminum which is all over everything grown above ground and not covered (hot house etc)... gets eaten9ya can't wash it off... unless ya peel everything... but greens etc. ya can not get it out... it gets in the fiber)... then ya eat it... it goes in the gut... mixes with the glyphosate... becomes 10,000 timesmore toxic... inhibits the bodies ability to properly process sulfur into sulfide and sulfate... basically many very smart researchers are sayin'this is the cause of all this asperger's... autism... alzheimer's like symptoms in the elderly... you can only take so much nano... pico... and heavy metal poisoning... the brain starts to act very strangely... so... long story short... i eat lots of sweet pots grown on clean soil... they are non-gmo and basically grown organically... but... the grower doesn't pay for the certification... i make sure to get my omega 3 from fresh ground flax seed in the morning away from my sweet potato consumption... the omega 6 in the sweet pots inhibits the absorption of omega 3 and i only want so much fat daily... i'm on the heart attack proof diet by dr. caldwell b. esselstyn jr....

For instance, several of the novellas and short stories were told from the point of view of secondary characters (most notably, Kiernan, but also Saul and his henchman Simon), giving the reader a glimpse into their lives separate from Kate.

Named after James Joyce's most famous short story, the Dubliner is a classic Irish pub in DC This family - run bar has been in business since 1974 and proudly maintains the Celtic heritage of its founders.

A long story short: I developed a theory based on the insight that your sense of humor is your most important inner resource in times of stress.

This is the most comprehensive list of best Short Story blogs on the internet and I'm honoured to have you as part of this!

Their fabricated stories occasionally dissolve into something much more honest; Jack, perhaps the most emotional of the brothers, is a short story writer, with suspiciously familiar plot points and characters he insists are fictitious (from the short, Hotel Chevalier, which accompanies the film at the festival, we know this is not true).

In Ursula K. Le Guin's most famous short story, «The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas,» the city of Omelas is perfect for 99.99999999999999 percent of its citizens.

Toy Story 3 is one of the most successful «works on two levels» films and, although Coco falls short of that achievement, it is strong enough to engage viewers young and old alike.

Although its single player campaign is quite short and with a weak story, Killzone 3 brings back the epic, over-the-top action of its predecessor, this time with a multiplayer mode that rivals most of the major FPS games out there.

Roeg's film, originally adapted from a short story by Daphne du Maurier and considered one of 1970s British horror's most precious treasures, sees Sutherland (John Baxter) and Christie (his wife Laura) transplanted to Venice in the wake of their daughter's death.

For whatever reason, Warner Brothers packaged Jammin'the Blues, one of the greatest short films ever made, alongside Michael Curtiz's feature length Passage to Marseille (1944), a thoroughly mediocre military melodrama so desperate to replicate the success of Curtiz's earlier masterpiece Casablanca (1942) that it reuses most of the principal cast and some of the same story beats about lovers torn apart by war and self - centered anti-heroes who come to learn the importance of self - sacrifice.

Hunter, once - upon - a-time New York City roommates with fellow Oscar winner Frances McDormand and most recently co-star of the short - lived, single - season Alan Ball series «Here and Now» on HBO, acquired the four - story mid-block townhouse in July 2014 for $ 3.3 million, as noted by the eagle - eyed celebrity property gossip at the New York Post.

But perhaps it was the six award - winning films in MIFF's 50th Shorts Awards that most fittingly captured the hybrid nature of MIFF 2011, a selection of old and new forms of filmmaking, from a myriad of countries on a range of issues: A Fine Young Man (Kevan Funk, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Short Film; Best Australian Short, The Palace (Anthony Maras, 2011); Andrew Kavanagh, winner of the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Award for At the Formal (2010); Green Crayons, (Kazik Radwanski, 2010) from Canada, winner of Best Fiction Short Film; Nullabor (Alister Lockhart, Patrick Sarell, 2011) from Australia, the Best Animation Short Film; Leonids Story (Rainer Ludwigs, 2011) from Russia, the Best Documentary Short; and A History of Mutual Respect (Gabriel Abrantes, Daniel Schmidt, 2010) from Portugal, winner of Best Experimental Short Film.

It's like a collection of short stories — most dystopian, some not — trying to pass itself off as a novel.

Perhaps this is something Inarritu is very aware of, given that Robert Altman is perhaps cinema's most well - known Raymond Carver fan; he adapted a few of his short stories into the sprawling dramatic opus, Short short stories into the sprawling dramatic opus, Short Short Cuts.

Ellery Queen Mysteries (E1)-- Ellery Queen is both the pseudonymous author of and the main character in the scores of novels and short stories that made him the most well - known detective in American fiction.

Based on a James Joyce short story featured in The Dubliners, The Dead (1987) is one of his most exquisite works, a perfect cinematic short story attuned to the rituals and touchy relationships of family and friends gathering in early twentieth century Dublin to celebrate the Feast of the Epiphany.

Heder has most recently been writing and story editing on Orange Is The New Black, and Tallulah marks her feature writing / directing debut, after a couple of short films.

Director Daniel Raim has spent almost twenty years throwing a spotlight on these unsung heroes, first in his Oscar - nominated documentary short The Man on Lincoln's Nose, a portrait of Hitchcock production designer Robert Boyle, and most recently in Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story, an eye - opening chronicle of the creative partnership and marriage of two industry veterans.

For most of its running time, John Krasinski's adaptation of David Foster Wallace's short - story collection Brief Interviews With Hideous Men consists of little more than a series of monologues, and plays like some abstract theater exercise, hosted by a college coffeehouse.

With 14 supporting roles on screen for the most part it could have easily fallen short, factors of how much screen time to give each character without allowing them feel too intrusive on the story or the flip side, falling out the story.

But with its theme of a character realizing that all isn't what it seems like in his perfect little world reminded me most of Dark City (although it is an entirely different movie altogether) and some science fiction short stories.

I feel that most of what is truly wonderful about this film comes from the story itself; of course the cinematography is nothing short of award worthy.

Anton Chekhov's novella «The Duel» is among his most extended pieces of fiction, and yet it has the gracefully digressive shape of one of his classic short stories.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: Most Oscar - Nominated Flick of the Year Arrives on DVD Very loosely - based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's 14 - page short story of the same name, this melancholy meditation on love, mortality and loneliness revolves around a baby (Brad Pitt) born old who grows younger over the course of his life.

There's a whole raft of supplementary content, some on the same disc as the feature (the Day & Night short that complemented Toy Story 3's theatrical release, for example), but most on a separate second BD disc.

Still, Hollywood has used this most American of holidays to frame several fine stories of redemption, be they Academy - Award - winning sports movies like Rocky, Woody Allen comedies like Hannah and Her Sisters or even a short horror movie by Eli Roth (which we had to include).

In short order, Jim makes a move that one supposes is meant to illustrate the corruptibility of even the most hard - nosed, but it never feels organic to anything we've seen from him in the story.

Best British Independent Film: God's Own Country Best Director: Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch Best Actress: Florence Pugh, Lady Macbeth Best Actor: Josh O'Connor, God's Own Country Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson, The Party Best Supporting Actor: Simon Russell Beale, The Death of Stalin Best Screenplay: Alice Birch, Lady Macbeth Best Debut Screenwriter: Francis Lee, God's Own Country Best International Independent Film: Get Out Best Documentary: Almost Heaven Best Casting: Sarah Crowe, The Death of Stalin Best Editing: Jon Gregory, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Music: Carter Burwell, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Best Cinematography: Ari Wegner, Lady Macbeth Best Costume Design: Holly Waddington, Lady Macbeth Best Sound: Anna Bertmark, God's Own Country Best Production Design: Cristina Casali, The Death of Stalin Best Hair and Make - Up: Nicole Stafford, The Death of Stalin Best Effects: Nick Allder & Ben White, The Ritual Best British Short: Fish Story Breakthrough Producer: Emily Morgan, I Am Not a Witch Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Director: Rungano Nyoni, I Am Not a Witch Discovery Award: In Another Life Most Promising Newcomer: Naomi Ackie, Lady Macbeth