Sentences with phrase «novel story experience»
With a beautiful visual novel story experience, Haku and Kuon will meet a cast of intriguing and colorful characters in the beautiful empire of Yamato.
http://www.warpzoned.com/ Not exact matches
If you don't have any experience that you want to cash in on but have a knack for writing, say, sci - fi stories, then you can author and publish your novel on Amazon as well.
It might be helpful at this point to look more fully at a few novels that have attempted a parabolic portrayal of the story of the human experience of coming to belief.
I am concerned, rather, with the parabolic qualities of their novels as illustrations for my thesis that the experience of coming to belief is a story and novels which tell that story are a source for theological reflection.
It would learn these things not principally from the «content» of the stories but from their «form»; whether a novel is, like O'Connor's, an experience of coming to belief within a recognizably Christian universe, or, like Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five, an experience of deepening despair over the ways of the universe, it would see them both as parabolic stories.
She thinks games can be just as powerful as films or novels, but by experiencing them in a different way the player can become a co-director of the story.
We've all had the experience of repeating a dramatic story so many times that the events seem dead, as if they came from a novel rather than real life.
When we live life as a story we deprive ourselves from experiencing life as novel.
Much like the heroine of my novel, Click: An Online Love Story, I needed some coaxing before I could embrace the experience.
A loose adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's much stranger novel, Annihilation offers a better experience than a story.
St. Louis crime reporter Camille Preaker (Amy Adams) returns to her small Missouri hometown for a story about a murder of a young girl and the disappearance of another only to experience reminders of her past in this eight - part drama based on the novel by Gillian Flynn.
His experiences informed The Steel Helmet and numerous other war films but it was forty years before he put his own story down, first in the novel The Big Red One, published in 1980, and then in the film that came out the same year, in a compromised form that was partially restored in 2004.
On the fortress wall there are signs declaring this adaptation of the Patricia Highsmith novel «The Price of Salt» an important love story, a shattering and beautiful experience, featuring Oscar - worthy performances from Blanchett and Rooney Mara, etc..
Colm Toíbin's novel Brooklyn was in many ways a perfect book, a taut and heartwrenching story of a young Irish woman, Eilis, and her traumatic experience immigrating to America in the 1950s: the way it left her in limbo, no longer comfortable in Ireland and always an outsider in her new home.
At the film's recent press day, Moretz, Blackley, Leonard, Cutler, Forman and Cross discussed bringing the emotional experience of the book to the screen, the challenge of finding the right cast, Blackley and Leonard's preparation for their musical roles, creating the onscreen chemistry in the relationship between Adam and Mia, Stacy Keach's heartfelt portrayal of Gramps, Forman's reaction to seeing her novel adapted to film, and Cutler's desire to recreate the roller coaster experience of the book but tell a story that's ultimately life affirming and has a positive message.
«Comanche Moon» is Larry McMurtry's fourth and (to date) final «Lonesome Dove» novel, but (chronologically speaking) it's the second story in the epic western tale of the changing face of Texas in the second half of 1800s, as experienced through the lives of best friends Gus McCrae and Woodrow F. Call.
Coppola and co-writer John Milius update Joseph Conrad's turn - of - the - century novel Heart of Darkness to tell the story of Captain Benjamin Willard (Martin Sheen), an Army special ops veteran whose existence has been fundamentally altered by his Vietnam experiences.
However, the game suffers from some design choices that bring down the overall experience, particularly the focus on a visual - novel style for telling the story, which itself tries hard to grasp attention of the player but fails to do so.
What new and novel (heh) experience can you offer in your story?
In the beginning, when I was trying to sell my first novel, I had a weird experience of editors really wanting me to write, sort of magic realism set in the Caribbean, or about recent immigrants with a magical ability (I've had two editors actually give me that logline and ask if I'd be interested in writing that story, but it's just not there for me, I've got other stories still to tell).
New York Times bestselling steampunk / fantasy author Gail Carriger joined us this week to talk about writing and marketing for traditionally published novels as well as her experiences self - publishing novellas and short stories.
Though her two previous novels have been historical, here Gilmore (a former publicity director at Harcourt) takes on the very contemporary subject of infertility and adoption in a story drawn in part from personal experience.
As a young reader, did you struggle to find stories that mirrored your life and experiences KELLER: I've written plenty of practice novels and stories before The Science of Breakable Things, but they never featured a main character with my identity.
For a book whose title sounds like an affirmation of faith but whose story is about an atheist refuting the existence of God, reading it is a spiritual experience... Many of the positive reviews laud the wit and entertainment Goldstein provides, but honestly, the breadth and depth of ideas covered require close and thoughtful reading... This novel can be read on a few different levels: a romance, a mystery, an intellectual thriller or a philosophical / religious treatise.
Pricing can be a heated topic in the independent e-publishing world and almost everything in here will simply be my opinion based on my experience of the last two years, six novels, and numerous odd short stories and novellas.
I can certainly see how a short story could be a better reading experience than a 400 page novel.
Whether it's an original Vertigo graphic novel like «Shooters» or established franchises like «G.I. Joe,» «Battlestar Galactica» and «Vampirella,» writers Brandon Jerwa and Eric Trautmann have explored a vast landscape of comic book casts and stories — and they plan to bring that experience over to digital comics with «Frost,» a new series published via Chris Roberson's Monkeybrain Comics digital imprint.
I had twenty - five years worth of life experiences, thoughts, emotions, and stories to draw from, and I was determined to cram all of it into a novel that would dazzle readers and immediately launch my literary career into the stratosphere of superstardom!
KRISTEN HARNISCH drew upon her extensive research and her experiences living in San Francisco and visiting the Loire Valley and Paris to create the stories for THE CALIFORNIA WIFE (HarperCollins Canada & She Writes Press, 2016) and her first novel, THE VINTNER»S DAUGHTER (HarperCollins Canada & She Writes Press, 2014).
Writers of commercial fiction who wish to soar out of category, as well as literary novelists who want to learn how to make powerful story principles work for them, will find the Breakout Novel Intensive 2.0 an idea - packed and career enriching experience.
Jhumpa Lahiri discusses the cultural conflicts of growing up in America as the child of immigrants and how the experience of writing her first novel differed from writing the short stories in the Pulitzer prize - winning Interpreter of Maladies.
Simply written with direct comments made to the reader, which I found to be finally annoying, I found this novel to be a story whose idea is much more engaging than the reading experience itself.
Though a novel like this could easily become didactic, Abdel - Fattah expertly sidesteps heavy - handed lessons, instead deeply rooting the story in the experiences of these two teenagers, rendering their story, encompassing romance, a testament to friendship, and a powerful call to action, in utterly real and sympathetic terms.
How to Build a Girl By Caitlin Moran Harper Perennial • $ 15.95 • ISBN 9780062335982 The rowdy first novel from the author of the best - selling feminist memoir / manifesto How to Be a Woman borrows events from Moran's own improbable life story, including her experiences as a teen critic for a British music magazine.
Audrey Princeton's experiences as a children's party princess for hire in the new novel Party Girl is the sum total of eight New York women's stories, but the lion's share of the character's emotional journey and growth is ripped from the pages of author Erin Shaw's real life.
Another aspect in common with my experience as a professional novel and short story editor is that over time you build relationships with certain authors and a knowledge of their strengths.
While I agree with Kristen that blogging makes us write «leaner, meaner, faster, and cleaner», so does short story writing, so does flash fiction writing, and so does a few rounds with an experienced editor over your novel.
His work includes a collection of short stories with twists called Hobson's Choice (also available in print), a full - length novel called «The Road» about the consequences of corruption on ordinary people and an accessible job hunting interview guide (based on his years of experience as the boss of an employment agency).
I love memoir because it brings me so close to the writer's emotional experience, but Julie Metz's story goes even further by creating the kind of suspense usually associated with a detective novel.
Barnes draws on all of these experiences while dreaming up the vivid, unconventional characters and highly entertaining stories featured in her historical romance novels, including the just - published The Scandal in Kissing an Heir — the second in her At the Kingsborough Ball series.
Readers who experience a quiet thrill upon discovering an exciting new novel are likely to encounter that sensation when they read Welcome to Lagos, Chibundu Onuzo's second work of fiction (and her American debut), a fast - paced story of war refugees, militants and others fleeing conflict in modern - day Nigeria.
The 10 - year - old heroine of this taut novel in verse, Hà, narrates the story of her experience as a refugee from Vietnam in the 1970s.
Dallas novelist Kathleen Kent tells the story of Martha Allen and Thomas Carrier, who in her earlier novel experienced the Salem Witch Trials.
The dust jacket of her Practically Seventeen speaks tellingly about these romance novels: «In recent years, permanent recognition and popularity have been accorded the «junior novel» [this patronizing term was used to describe books for teens in the forties and fifties], the story that records truthfully the modern girl's dream of life and romance and her ways of adjusting to her school and family experiences.
Charlie Smith's novel Ginny Gall is a coming - of - age story set in the early 20th century, revolving around the experiences of a black «everyman» named Delvin Walker.
John and Robert are also professionally published authors and experienced with screenplay adaptations of novels and story - driven nonfiction.
The award - winning writer Cheryl Strayed creates from this shattering experience a novel that reviewers have called «an unforgettable read» and «a hauntingly beautiful story» that «shimmers with a humane grace.»
Delijani's gorgeous novel is based, at least partially, on the author's own experiences - she was born in Iran in 1983 - and the stories of her family and friends who lived through the Revolution.
With this opening line of Naslund's compelling new novel, a very human Marie Antoinette invites readers to live her story as she herself experiences it.
His forthcoming novel weaves Wagner's knowledge and experience in the music industry throughout the story.