Sentences with phrase «others become better writers»

Instead, she focused on her passion — writing and helping others become better writers!

Not exact matches

We talked a bit about how I became a writer, discouragement, finding your voice, blogging, the difference between blogging and book writing, why I decided to write Jesus Feminist, my process as a writer, and the best (and worst) parts of writing among other things.

The Good Food Project, run by local food writer Susan Taylor, offers classroom tastings to help kids learn varieties of apples and other foods, plus how to become «food critics.»

Other reader choices show that when computers are a given, more novel tech becomes standard: interactive whiteboards, digital cameras, iPods, and word processing (which won't by itself make kids better writers but can make them more willing ones).

Other writers are often our best resource for many aspects of writing and publishing — not just beta reading — so becoming part of a writing community is helpful all around.

Erica Verrillo presents Becoming a Better Writer: Getting Critiques posted at Publishing... and Other Forms of Insanity, saying, «It takes some courage, but getting your work critiqued is an important part of the creative process.

Many good writers start out as good readers; others I know have had to work hard to become better readers.

In other words, while a writer's tools may be important and can support good writing habits, you can become too dependent they become impediments.

You will be able to find the errors much quicker than the others and the process will help you to become more confident and better writer.

In other words, keep writing and working on becoming a better writer.

Check out our resource library here at The Kill Zone (down the right sidebar), as well as blogs like Writer Unboxed, Janice Hardy's Fiction University (formerly The Other Side of the Story), K. M. Weiland's Helping Writers Become Authors, Angela Ackerman & Becca Puglisi's Writers Helping Writers (formerly The Bookshelf Muse), Elizabeth Craig's Mystery Writing is Murder, Joanna Penn's The Creative Penn, John Yeoman's The Wicked Writing Blog, and more.

In 2007, Kresley won the prestigious Romance Writers of America RITA award for best paranormal for her novel A Hunger Like No Other, and in January 2009, she became a # 1 New York Times and Publishers Weekly bestseller with her sixth IAD installment, Kiss of a Demon King.

Whether a writer is is traditionally published or self - published, we all need to become better at supporting each other in our efforts and nurturing talent.

Studying, reading, and writing in other genres can help you flex your creative muscles, expand your storytelling skills, help you become a well - rounded writer — and ultimately, help you achieve your personal writing goals.

Otherwise we risk becoming characters uttering lines of dialogue instead of working writers helping each other make good decisions.

Basically we're the place you want to be if you want to become a better writer, while hanging out with other awesome writers too.

Hopefully Claire's example will help encourage other kids hoping to become writers to publish their own ebooks as well.

I thought... as a young girl I would surely grow up to become a great writer, my parents had other things in mind for me... so, I became a teacher, still love to write, and books are my best friends.

If you are quiet and have chosen to become a writer, an artist, or are just enjoying life strolling down the beach or sleeping in your hammock, choose a breed that can be quiet, steady, good - natured but not too outgoing, and able to lie quietly at times and enjoy your bursts of insightful energy at other times.

After a few courses, it became apparent that fashion people think art people are the only ones who understand them, so John Currin and Rachel Feintstein, Massimiliano Gioni and Cecilia Alemani, Tracey Emin, Cathy Opie, Elmgreen & Dragset, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe, Nicky Verber, Toby Webster, Tate Modern director Chris Dercon, MoMA curator Laura Hoptman, and the many other dealers and collectors on hand mixed well with fashion editors, writers, and models like Suzy Menkes, Sarah Mower, Penny Martin, and Annabelle Nielson.

Immersing himself in New York's downtown culture, he quickly became a fixture on the artistic scene, befriending other artists such as Jean - Michel Basquiat and Kenny Scharf, as well as many of the most innovative musicians, poets, performance artists, and writers of the period.

Although both had been feminist writers and peace activists living in Brooklyn, NY for many years, playwright Karen Malpede and poet / novelist Jan Clausen didn't know each other very well until they spent a night in jail together following a civil disobedience arrest at the time of the Iraq invasion in 2003, after which they gradually became better acquainted with each other's work.