Sentences with phrase «of aspiring novelists»

As a freelance editor, I read and review manuscripts and query letters of aspiring novelists hoping to find the key to the padlocked gate of publishin

The five - year romance, marriage and divorce of an aspiring novelist (Jeremy Jordan) and a struggling actress (Anna Kendrick) is told through song in this movie based on a musical stage play.

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High school poetry teacher and aspiring novelist Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) is not quite the World's Greatest Dad (Magnolia), but his son (Alexie Gilmore) is a real jerk of a teenager, utterly foul and hateful and despised by everyone... until he kills himself and his suicide note and journals (written by Dad) are embraced by his students as the heartfelt cry of a misunderstood artist.

Shot partly as a fantasy and partly as a video - chat, «A Summer In Ohio» finds Kendrick's aspiring Broadway star Cathy working in a theater camp, and telling her novelist husband, Jamie, back in New York all about «slowly going batty / 40 miles east of Cincinnati.»

Owen Wilson plays Gil, a dissatisfied Hollywood screenwriter - turned - aspiring novelist accompanying his fiancée (Rachel McAdams) and future in - laws (Kurt Fuller and Mimi Kennedy) to the City of Light.

set to romantic horns, and then immediately segues into bald - faced audience - pandering via a conversation in which Hollywood screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil (Owen Wilson) badmouths his future father - in - law's (Kurt Fuller) Tea Party convictions as those of a «demented lunatic.»

Set in New York, story follows an aspiring novelist (Yelchin) who has a «5 to 7» affair with the beautiful wife (Marlohe) of a French diplomat.

Wilson's performance as screenwriter and aspiring novelist Gil Pender garnered him a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

I now write about films, books and adaptations and am an aspiring novelist with a tendency to focus on the morbid side of life...

A smart, sophisticated comedy about the challenges of love and marriage amongst modern day New Yorkers, Freundlich's fourth feature film centers on the romantic escapades of two couples: a successful actress (Freundlich's real - life significant other, Julianne Moore) and her stay - at - home husband (David Duchovny), and said actress» slacker younger brother (Billy Crudup) and his aspiring novelist girlfriend (Maggie Gyllenhaal).

Even the aspiring novelist (Joe Lo Truglio), who is also the resident nudist — as we are forced to see full frontal just because the writing duo of David Main & Ken Marino (Role Models) thought it would be naturally funny — works hard (no pun intended) to earn a laugh with sub-par material.

Mr. Farland tirelessly devotes time to teaching aspiring authors how to launch themselves into the happy business of becoming first time novelists, as do the successful authors who lend their time to his programs.

This article previously appeared on the blog of Downunder writer friend Dolly Garland and at Magical Words, a website of writing tips and publishing advice for aspiring novelists run by a group of top fantasy writers.

When aspiring historic novelists come to me for story analysis and editorial services, I guide them in whatever way I can on the craft and elements of storytelling.

I've been blessed to squeeze myself between the pages of some of the best writing books that are rammed with writing resources for aspiring writers and novelists.

Over and over again, she and the other contributors stress the importance of reading good work, as well as writing it, and the aspiring poet, novelist, journalist, essayist, creative nonfiction writer — or simply curious reader who relishes good writing — could do no better than to begin with In Fact.

A debut novel in which Janna Yusuf, an Arab Indian - American hijabi teenager who is a book nerd, an aspiring photographer, and graphic novelist who concerned about what a certain boy thinks of her.

One thing I'm happy about is that most of my «friends» on FB and followers on Twitter are aspiring authors or novelists continuing to work on their craft, so my posts with links to articles here and on other blogs always offer value — useful info for this target audience, and many of them share my posts and links.

From following around Nabokof as he butterfly hunts, to the multiple fishing records achieved by pulp western novelist Zane Grey, Boyle quietly illuminates the core of humble greatness to which we all can aspire.

Of course, non-law careers are no longer simply for the aspiring thespians and novelists who, having built a satisfactory nest egg with their private practice salaries, are now free to tread the boards or write the great American novel.