Sentences with phrase «of fiction careers»

Donald Maass's pioneering work and writing about the development of fiction careers has made DMLA a leading agency for fiction writers.

Joanna, I've been following your blog and YouTube channel since the very beginning of your fiction career when you had just released the then - titled «Pentecost».

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The prolific science - fiction author Ray Bradbury collected the lessons he had learned about the craft during his long and successful career in Zen in the Art of Writing.

At this point in my career, I took a break from fiction to write Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors.

A fact which has led a few interpreters of Ezekiel to conclude that the Babylonian setting is a later fiction, and that Ezekiel in fact fulfilled his career in Jerusalem.

There's a new generation of fiction depicting women in their careers, juggling work - life balance just like the rest of us.

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The film, in which Tarantino had a voice - over cameo, reunited him with Fiction star Samuel L. Jackson and won him the raves that had been missing for much of his post-Fiction career.

He also played the recurring role of Ranger Clark on Rocky Jones, Space Ranger, which seemed to herald a move toward science fiction focused roles in his broader career.

Beginning his career as an author and responsible for the source material of Danny Boyle's The Beach in 2000, Alex Garland then directly ventured into the film industry by doing screenplay's - again with Boyle on 28 Days Later and Sunshine - before he eventually took the reigns himself by making his directorial debut with the magnificent science fiction film Ex Machina in 2014.

When the adolescent science - fiction fans of the 1950s became the directors of the 1980s, Miller began receiving some of the best roles of his career.

There was a time when it seemed as if his career, celebrated as so influential and trailblazing in the 1990s mostly on the success of Pulp Fiction,

With the release of Burnt, we look back at Thurman's career - defining roles, which began with Mia Wallace in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction

Originally labelled a haunted house movie set in space, it created a whole new sub-genre of science fiction horror, kickstarted the careers of Ridley Scott and Sigourney Weaver, and introducing mainstream audiences to the fantastical works of the late surrealist sculptor and painter, HR Giger.

Dewey Riley (David Arquette), now Sherriff, and Gale Weathers - Riley (Courteney Cox), now attempting to leave behind sensationalistic journalism for a career writing fiction, are married and trying to keep their personal and professional lives separate («Later, hon,» Dewey intones during a press conference about the killings after Gale asks if there's any connection to the movies made out of her books).

On his seventy - sixth birthday, we're celebrating the work of Hollywood enfant terrible Brian De Palma, whose iconoclastic five - decade career has encompassed an astonishing array of genres, including erotic thriller, war drama, and science fiction.

I bemoaned when Variety finally shuttered his corner of their site, but if I'd had any idea that closing that door would eventually lead to Hendrix opening the door to the fiction side of his career, I'd have sent them a bottle of whiskey, because Horrorstör is a must - have in this world.

Pre-Star Wars director, USC graduate, and writer George Lucas had begun his career as director of the science - fiction film THX 1138 (1971), an expanded version of a prize - winning feature film he made while studying film at USC.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

Barry Forshaw has made a career out of studying the dames, pistols, machismo, and glistening city streets that define crime fiction; with previous books such as Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.fiction; with previous books such as Death in a Cold Climate: A Guide to Scandinavian Crime Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.Fiction and The Rough Guide to Crime Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.Fiction seeking to provide a comprehensive survey of the genre, he's made himself, to quote the book jacket of British Crime Film: Subverting the Social Order, «the UK's principal expert on crime fiction.fiction.»

A work of nonfiction that dances along the edges of documentary and fiction, confession and characterization, Actress follows Brandy Burre, former featured player on The Wire, as she struggles to revive her acting career while playing the real - life roles of mother and homemaker.

With «Stories We Tell,» which evades both the pitfalls of overly personal filmmaking and those of fiction - documentary hybrids — not to mention the philosophical trap of making a film «about narrative» instead of simply telling a story — Polley has delivered the first masterpiece of what promises to be an important career.

This was a story about film pioneers and preservation, historical fiction utilizing remarkable facts about the life and careers of Georges Méliès to tell a moving, universal tale of a 1930s orphan living in Paris» main train station.

From visionary director Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast, Birth) comes a stunning career transformation, a masterpiece of existential science fiction that journeys to the heart of what it means to be human, extraterrestrial — or something in between.

In 1968, Fonda got the first title role of her career, when director / screenwriter Roger Vadim, her husband at the time (her first marriage, his third), cast her in Barbarella, an adaptation of Jean - Claude Forest's series of adult French science fiction comics.

For a guy who's made his career directing down to earth, slice of life movies like The Descendants and About Schmidt and Nebraska and Sideways, a high concept science fiction - tinged experiment like Downsizing seems like an odd, but possibly exciting choice.

The Fellowship honors the memory of the beloved Sundance Institute mentor and prolific editor Sally Menke (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, All the Pretty Horses, Kill Bill, Inglourious Basterds, etc.) by supporting an emerging narrative editor's understanding of craft, expanding their artistic community, and providing momentum to their editing career through participation in the June Directors Lab and year - round mentorship from several accomplished editors.

Better to allow director Bennett Miller to tell this stranger - than - fiction story with the same engaging intelligence that characterised his previous works, Capote and Moneyball, both of which drew career - best performances from their casts.

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this gorgeous science fiction film from Denis Villenueve follows linguistics professors Louise Banks (Amy Adams in a career - best performance) as she aids the military in interpreting the language of the aliens that have come to earth.

Paul McGuigan There's a lovely warmth and likability to this heartwarming stranger - than - fiction love story, starring Jamie Bell as Peter Turner, an out - of - work actor in the 1970s who met and fell for the legendary Hollywood star Gloria Grahame, who was then in the endgame of her career and suffering from ill health — and who later came to stay with Turner's mum and dad, played by Julie Walters and Kenneth Cranham, at their home in Liverpool.

While it's true that Wise explored a variety of genres including horror, science fiction, noir, westerns, musicals and war dramas, his best films frequently share a gloomy nihilistic worldview and he possessed the extraordinary ability to elicit career - defining performances from many of the actors he worked with.

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Honoring the memory of beloved Sundance Institute mentor and esteemed editor Sally Menke (Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Inglorious Basterds), the annual Sally Menke Memorial Editing Fellowship supports an emerging narrative editor in advancing their craft and building their career.

Charlton Heston received a career jolt during the late - Sixties / Seventies when he starred in several high - profile science - fiction epics, including «Planet of the Apes» and The Omega Man.»

In English and language arts, you'd see more of a focus on nonfiction «a slight shift in the balance between fiction and nonfiction, favoring a greater emphasis on nonfiction since this is what people are typically reading in careers and so forth.

Learn how to rephrase the performance objectives of college and career ready standards for English language arts and literacy into good questions that challenge students to comprehend, comment on, consider, critique, and create texts of literacy fiction and nonfiction using various types of oral, written, creative, and technical expression.

A John Travolta comparison seems appropriate here, where a star is born (Welcome Back, Kotter), gets incredibly hot (Saturday Night Fever), suffers career burnout (too many flops to pick one), revives himself to a second period of superhot stardom (Pulp Fiction) and then, inevitably, the flame's out again (too many movies in recent years).

Over the course of her dynamic career she has sold over seven hundred titles to every major publisher, and has built a client list of more than forty authors spanning the commercial fiction genres, primarily in the areas of fantasy, science fiction, romance, mystery, suspense and erotica.

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In a career spanning three decades she published fifteen novels, three short story collections, prize - winning children's fiction and twelve collections of poetry.

Membership in the Romance Writers of America (RWA) is open to «all persons SERIOUSLY pursuing a romance fiction writing career.»

There was over 2,963,397 hours of audiobook playback and the most popular genres were personal growth, mysteries, science fiction and fantasy, and career and money.

Andrew Kaufman, journalist made famous for his coverage of the OJ fiasco, published his first fiction novel on Kindle, after also beginning his career in DTB.

Despite, or maybe because of, my being a nonfiction writer, one whose professional career is spent dealing with facts, I like reading fiction in my spare time.

No author in his right mind would advocate stealing ebook titles except one who is already established and wealthy and could clearly care less about his work being stolen at this stage in his career... and no clear - thinking person could believe that the field has been leveled for creators of short fiction versus longer fiction ebooks by the «pay per page» standard when you include short illustrated works.

In spring of 2017, I taught three different courses at Okanagan College, Kelowna Campus, for the Continuing Studies department: editing as a career (Editing 101), editing for non-editors (Grammar 101), and four fiction - writing workshops.

When you have a writing blog, you get to participate in blog hops, flash fiction swaps, contests and all kinds of networking events that help you meet people who can be important in your future career.

Namely, what will it mean for my future fiction - writing career if my first published book ultimately fails (being of course my failure) to make a name for itself, or worse — is a total disaster.

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