Sentences with phrase «of wannabe writers»

The majority of wannabe writers just talk about writing.

Joe sez: Some people believe the ease of self - publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.

Each year, thousands of wannabe writers get themselves hyped up about NANOWRIMO — «National Novel Writing Month.»

At the very top of the pyramid, you have people like Howey and Konrath who have realized they can get FAR more sales if they stroke the egos of wannabe writers (who will then buy their books in gratitute) than they could ever make if their writing actually had to stand on its own.

Are indie books, whether in e-book or print format, simply the vanity products of wannabe writers who can't find publishers the old - fashioned way?

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For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

«Your passing, superficial knowledge of the risk factors of a given thing, gleaned from newspapers and television and repeated ad nauseum by a million wannabe pundits and newsletter writers, are priced in.»

Most of us are just writer wannabes.

(I'm a wannabe writer and lover of fiction).

I'm a handful & a handful of things: fashion blogger, social media PR girl, wannabe writer & LCF graduate.

I notice most of the earlier one's are positive and then someone deigns to write a negative one and everyone else (clearly the «armchair critics» / wannabe writers) subsequently follow suit like sheep.

July 9, 2016 • On the 20th anniversary of the release of «Wannabe,» the single that launched the girl power juggernaut on the world, the writer Laura Snapes recalls her pre-teen obsession with the Spice Girls.

The writer - director's characters all have them: a rebellious high school senior (Abby Quinn) flirting with boys and heroin for the first time; her soon - to - be-married sister (Jenny Slate), who questions everything after a hookup with an old flame; their mother (Edie Falco), who works around the clock and takes flak from all involved; and their father (John Turturro), a wannabe playwright who may or not be carrying on a decade - long affair (the discovery of a dirty poetry stash sends the sisters hunting for answers).

Written under the headline «««Three Billboards» Is a Wannabe Coen Brothers Bag of Dumb Jokes,» Reed's review is chock full of cheap barbs at writer / director Martin McDonagh, whom he says «labors under the delusion that he's a movie director.»

Dave Franco plays wannabe actor Greg Sestero (writer of the tell - all book on which this is based), a blandly handsome San Francisco suburbanite who falls in with the secretive, much - older Wiseau (James Franco, building an eerily accurate impression based mainly on The Room and its creator's inscrutable persona, but nothing deeper).

Paxton is a wannabe writer who wants to go to war for the mere experience of it.

A lot of nasty wannabe writers seem to hang out there only for the purpose of being cruel.)

Every day legions of writers and wannabes trek over to literary agent Nathan Bransford's blog for a dose of some of the smartest, most honest, entertaining and generous advice on the book business I've seen online.

If you were a wannabe writer in the time of Jane Austin or Charles Dickens, your chances of meeting them and asking writing - related questions would be practically nonexistent.

That truth is even more daunting when we consider how few wannabe writers actually reach the end of their first draft.

We welcome writer «wannabes» or published writers of any genre from any geographic area to join us.

No, it's not perfect, and like most writers there are things I'd go back and change, but it's not dreck — it is a story that, whether hated or loved by readers, deserved to be told — and after spending most of my life writing, I am not a «wannabe.»

E-publishing is a boon for both established and wannabe writers as it is cost effective and cuts down the time it take for a book to reach markets to about a fourth of what it would have taken had it been left to publishers to do the job.

I've never attempted anything on this scale, and bringing together 4 diverse, very successful authors to Grand Bend to teach 90 minute workshops to an equally diverse audience of new and «wannabe» writers proved to be no small challenge.

At every turn in the satirical story, someone who could unmask our protagonist lurks... Shriver's fear of being outed as an impostor rings true for any writer — wannabe or bona fide — who's ever doubted their abilities.»

I think writers, wannabe - writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.

Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author awardee, is a writer, a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art of aimless roaming.

Self - publishing is full of good and bad opportunities, editors and predators, con artists and scammers, and the road is full of traps for the wannabe writer.

I'm a former editor for CNN Travel, and having worked with hundreds of freelance writers and a few bloggers over the last decade, decided to write a short ebook to answer some of the most common questions that wannabe travel writers have.

Matthew Barker is a Peru - based wannabe writer who combined his love of travel and writing with his career in marketing to create the Travel Content Network, an online marketplace for professional travel writers and online publishers who recognise the value of high quality writing.

Writer, wannabe author, creator of Slightly Animated cartoons on YouTube, and more than a bit nerdy.

The presumption — and the motivation, I'd guess — of judicial Joyce wannabes then becomes clear: they're dressing up in a deity's magic cloak (which writers should only wear in the privacy of their garrets, by the way) instead of their usual «dull sublunary» fustian.

♥ Lady Farmer wannabe ♥ Artist ♥ Writer ♥ Earth Energy Master ♥ Reiki Practitioner ♥ Believer of living in the moment