Sentences with phrase «novels about being a writer»

The more specifically you can narrow down your audience to, say, «romance readers who read other independently published romance / drama novels about being a writer,» the better.

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'' [It's] a novel by the Belgian - born French writer Marguerite Yourcenar about the life and death of Roman Emperor Hadrian.

The most negative critical reaction came about because of his use of a fragment from writer Vera Panova's reminiscences in his novel Maidenhair, which was misunderstood as plagiarism.

When Publishers Weekly, in its religion section, talked about one of my novels and one of John Updike's as crossover books by mainstream writers, I doubt that our editors at Knopf were pleased.

I am Leah DeCesare, owner of Mother's Circle, LLC, parenting and novel writer, blogging about the adventures of everyday family life.

Samuel Richardson, the 18th - century writer who is widely regarded as one of the founders of the modern novel, complained so much about ill health that his doctor regarded him as a hypochondriac.

Despite being the most influential science writer in the world, Asimov is best known for his fiction, particularly his «Foundation» novels, written during the 1950s, and his novels about «positronic robots».

Pandy «PJ» Wallis is a writer whose novels about a young woman making her way in Manhattan have spawned a series of blockbuster films.

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About Blog Instead of sharing advice about what writers should be doing, author Janice Hardy explains how to apply the industry's advice to your work, including tips on how to plan, write, edit and publish a nAbout Blog Instead of sharing advice about what writers should be doing, author Janice Hardy explains how to apply the industry's advice to your work, including tips on how to plan, write, edit and publish a nabout what writers should be doing, author Janice Hardy explains how to apply the industry's advice to your work, including tips on how to plan, write, edit and publish a novel.

Joanne Whalley was born in Manchester, England and became interested in acting at an early age, appearing in small television roles including the television adaptation of JOBY, a novel by Stan Barstow, and A QUIET LIFE, about writer Beryl Bainbridge.

What excites Callow about the film is that people's notion of Dickens as a bearded older, stuffy Victorian writer, will be changed as in fact he was a father of four, handsome, witty and lively guy who completed the novel at age 31.

A revered fiction writer, Kozlow (Marton Csokas) has recently written a novel which outlines a similar murder, containing certain details about the slain businessman which were never released to the press.

Apprehensions about Peter Jackson's first instalment of The Hobbit films — a trilogy stemming from JRR Tolkien's iconic novel, and the writer / director's second stint in Middle Earth after The Lord of the Rings — are swiftly cast aside in The Desolation of Smaug, endless exposition gratefully replaced by rollicking action.

Nina is semi-engaged to Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore), a writer returning via ocean liner from France armed with his novel about London's feckless upper - class youth.

«The Adderall Diaries,» based on Stephen Elliott's best - selling novel, is about a man who suffers from writers block and strained relationships.

Bored to Death: The Complete First Season Available on DVD and Blu - ray Jason Schwartzman, Zach Galifianakis, and Ted Danson star in this freshman HBO comedy about a mystery writer who is so bored that he posts an ad on the internet lending his services as a private detective in order to pass the time and maybe get a few ideas for his novel.

For her first narrative feature since Winter's Bone (the Ozark - set documentary Stray Dog was made in the interim), writer - director Debra Granik adapts Guggenheim recipient Peter Rock's 2009 novel My Abandonment, about a father (Ben Foster) and his 13 - year - old daughter (newcomer Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie), homeless yet living in surprisingly peaceful fashion in empty urban wilderness on the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, until a small mistake derails their lives in shattering fashion.

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

What strikes me most about this movie, which I had long wanted to see but hadn't until now, is that Williamson alone is credited as writer, even though its concept bears a strong resemblance to Killing Mr. Griffin, a novel Duncan wrote five years after the source of I Know What You Did....

Back in 2009, writer Joe Kelly and illustrator Ken Niimura partnered together to create the graphic novel I Kill Giants, a sprawling adventure about loner kid Barbara Thorson, who retreats into a magical world to fight evil giants that may or may not all be in her head.

The shame of it is that there is a solid idea or two about the symbiotic relationship between humanity and the aliens hovering around when the screenplay by writer / director Andrew Niccol (based on the novel by Stephanie Meyer) temporarily drops its silliest trappings.

Based on a crime novel by James Sallis, a disciple of pulp writers like Jim Thompson and David Goodis, Drive squares nicely with Refn's previous work, particularly the Pusher trilogy, which is about tough, low - level hoods who scrap their way through a narrowing set of choices.

Perrault is a lawyer turned writer; Dossier is based on a true case which he first heard about from spies who assisted him while he was researching his novel l'Orchestre Rouge.

The story conjures memories of Woody Allen's «Deconstructing Harry,» a cynical movie about the dangers of using real characters for novels and Luigi Pinadello's play, «Six Characters in Search of an Author,» about six people claiming to be part of an unfinished story, asking the writer to complete the job.

Based on To an Early Grave, the humorous and cynical novel by Wallace Markfield, Bye Bye Braverman is a fuzzy, unresolved, bittersweet satire, which centers on four Jewish intellectuals who, on their way to a friend's funeral, reminisce about their dear dead friend Leslie Braverman, an idealistic but minor avant - garde writer.

Crossfire Edward Dmytryk, USA, 1947, 35 mm, 86m This adaptation of writer / director - to - be Richard Brooks's novel The Brick Foxhole, about a group of vets, led by Robert Mitchum's Sergeant Keeley, searching postwar Washington for their amnesiac friend (George Cooper) so they can clear him of a murder charge, embodies the essence of what has come to be known as «film noir» — moody, troubled characters; nocturnal action; chiaroscuro cinematography; low - key acting spiced with bits of bravura eccentricity; and a plot so crazy that it feels like a nightmare.

Kubrick's superb film of Vladimir Nabokov's classic comic - erotic novel — about the dangerous affair of college professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) and nymphet Lolita (Sue Lyon), in which they are nightmarishly pursued by the writer, sybarite and man of many faces Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers).

Other recipients include Jean - Paul Rappeneau for his project Belles familles; Louis Garrel, whose Les Deux amis will team the writer - director with Vincent Macaigne; and Christophe Honoré... Michael Caine will star in Paolo Sorrentino's In the Future, a drama about «friendship between two old people»... Abdellatif Kechiche is contemplating another helping of wrenching romantic anguish with a movie version of Héloïse et Abélard... Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are currently shooting an adaptation of Eleanor Henderson's novel Ten Thousand Saints, with Ethan Hawke and Hailee Steinfeld, about a young man (played by Hugo star Asa Butterfield) who moves in with his estranged father in Manhattan in 1987 at the height of the East Village punk scene...

8 p.m. (5 p.m.): «Lolita» (1962, Stanley Kubrick, U.S. - Britain) Kubrick's superb film of Vladimir Nabokov's classic comic - erotic novel — about the dangerous affair of college professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) with nymphet Lolita (Sue Lyon), while they are nightmarishly pursued by writer / sybarite Clare Quilty (Peter Sellers).

After that quote was picked up by news sites, LA Times writer Amy Kaufman tweeted McAdams» full response to the «Doctor Strange» question (h / t to Newsarama for spotting it), which reveals that she definitely knows a thing or three about the world of comics and graphic novels.

Based on a bestselling novel, Mike Newell's gentle, meandering drama stars Lily James as Juliet Ashton, a young London writer who's made a name for herself with a humorous column about life during wartime.

When it comes to fiction versus nonfiction, the new Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for English Language Arts isn't «an either or thing,» says Marfè Ferguson Delano, a nonfiction children's book writer whose books often connect her young readers to novels on the subjects she writes about.

Sarah Fox - author, writer, novelist, book development babe, copy editor, and writing coach — there to help you finally write that novel you've been thinking about.

The Son by Philipp Meyer Ecco • $ 27.99 • ISBN 9780062120397 On sale May 28, 2013 Philipp Meyer made his fiction debut with a bang: His very first novel, American Rust, was one of the most talked - about literary releases of 2009, earning him a place on The New Yorker «s Best 20 Writers Under 40 list.

A male writer is taken to task by his female muse for his unfortunate penchant for killing off the women he writes about in Oyeyemi's imaginative fourth novel, which shares Gone Girl's interest in violence against women and the dark side of marriage.

There are plenty of sites and forums with other querying writers (AbsoluteWrite is one) to help you summarize your novel in a way that helps an agent see exactly what your book is about without new confusions or questions arising.

I've recently been slogging through multiple articles and sites about self - promotion for writers because I have two novels being traditionally published this year, and I must admit I'm SEVERELY overwhelmed not only by all the info available, but also by the numerous avenues by which a writer can and must promote his / her work... I hardly know where to start.

If you're a writer, you know about NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, every November when aspiring authors scramble to try to write the first draft of a new book in one month flat.

Novel Advice by Kevin T. Johns is a smorgasbord of writer's tips, inspiration and hints about the writer's life.

I was a bit skeptical about taking your 17 day course, as you seemed to focus more on «self help», «business», and «how to» books, and I'm a screenwriter / novel writer, but I went ahead and invested anyway.

Posted by Victoria Strauss for Writer Beware I've been getting some questions about the BookLife Prize in Fiction, a new award for unpublished and self - published novels.

He talks about how a writer's first — and maybe even his second, third and fourth — novel should be consigned to the bottom drawer.

At a writers conference I recently attended, Jane Friedman said 80,000 words is good for most fiction, below 60,000 isn't novel territory, and about 120,000 is likely too much.

The process teaches writers about the focus and discipline of crafting a novel, but later forces them to truly see the work that needs to be done to turn it into a readable book.

When writers describe the experience of writing and publishing a first novel, about half say it's like giving birth and the other half say it's like riding a roller coaster.

Martin Amis is the son of another famous British novelist, Kingsley Amis, and although he credits his initial welcome into the publishing world to his father's influence, much has been written about this father and son phenomenon and their relationship as writers, including the story that Amis» father actually stopped halfway through reading his son's novel Money and threw it across the room.

I've blogged a lot already about debut novels coming this winter — Tea Obrecht, Deborah Harkness and more — but perhaps the most controversial and buzzed about debut of the season comes from Benjamin Hale, an Iowa Writers Workshop graduate who is publishing his first novel with Twelve this February.

Every time I've spoken with Sarah Jessica about the novel, I've had the thought that she is the ideal reader a writer might want for their book, as she is thoughtful and insightful, generous with her heart and precise in her observations, and her responses reflect how genuinely she feels for characters and how much time she spends thinking about them.

My attention was on high alert when I began Our Tragic Universe, because this is a book about a writer, leading me to expect a fair amount of self - consciousness about the form of the novel itself.