Sentences with phrase «over your fiction writing»

Also: don't let your blog take over your fiction writing time.

-LSB-...] And don't let your blog take over your fiction writing time.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

Just when it looked like the storm had blown over, Pete Enns wrote an excellent piece for the Huffington Post in which he asks, Does God talk to us through fiction?

In the more than 40 years since that move, Berry has written over 40 books of fiction, poetry, essays and biography.

Joseph Smith, who had little formal education, writes a 532 page fiction book with multiple story lines, more than three major ethnic groups that intermingle with one another, creates over 200 new names, many of which have Hebraic origin (Mosiah for instance), writes in chiasmas poetry, accurately predicts latter day pollution, international intrigue, the dispersing of the Gospel message and a host of other fictional and hysterical points was WRONG?

Gooch assumes (and here he has an enormous advantage over Bailey, whose subject few contemporary readers are familiar with) that the reader of the biography already knows the fiction that its subject wrote.

For these reasons, Jews drawn to speculative writing may have an affinity for the science fiction over fantasy.

Taking Doctor Who as an example, enthusiasm leads to exploration: fans discover the back catalogue, they take ownership of their passion, they engage in cosplay, argue over what is «cannon», and eventually write their own fan fiction.

Atomica's slapdash script is a hasty aggregation of screenwriting and science fiction clichés, barely feature - length and possibly written over a single weekend.

Unlike Michael Apted's documentary Up series, Boyhood is fiction, its scenario written in advance of the entire shooting, which took place over a three - or four - day period once a year for 12 years beginning in 2002.

Damon Lindelof discusses his hand in some of the most celebrated and scrutinized works of science fiction over the past five years, and how much of their success is attributed to writing stories that leave a lot up to one's imagination.

Author Karyn Prior has been writing fiction for over 10 years and is the Executive Officer to ACPPA and also to the South Australian Catholic Primary Principals» Association.

And right now I'm starting over from scratch for my fiction writing: a couple months ago I had zero platform.

Zak Zyz has been writing fiction for over a decade and is just now getting around to publishing it.

Early on in my writing career, I had a lot of angst over whether I was any good at writing fiction.

She's written over half a million words of fiction and published 20 + books.

I've been writing fiction for a little over a year — not long, in the scheme of things.

By the end of 2012, «Loose Ends» had sold over 82,000 copies and, as of the writing of this bio, was the number one bestselling book in Amazon's ranking of Ghost Stories in the Book / Literature & Fiction / Genre Fiction / Horror / Ghosts section and the number two in the same area in the Kindle eBooks section.

Outside of work I write and publish new fiction every week, over on Wattpad.

«In two experimental studies, we were able to show that self - reported empathic skills significantly changed over the course of one week for readers of a fictional story by fiction authors Arthur Conan Doyle or José Saramago,» they wrote in the findings.

The latest in Vidal's series of intelligently wrought historical novels tracing the rise and development of the American republic joins its predecessors in the front rank of historical fiction written over the past three decades.

But again, I am predominately a non fiction writer, though I have a sonnet blog and I've written a novel which I became dejected over when I received a few rejections, a few.

Teresa has helped over 150 clients write and publish fiction and nonfiction books, short stories, essays, and articles; launch websites and blogs; complete synopses and book proposals; acquire literary agents; self - publish their books; and brainstorm creative marketing plans to promote their projects.

A book launch is something I haven't done in over six months, and I'm chomping at the bit to get back to my fiction writing.

You'll learn everything you need to write and publish books that earn consistent income, by building a powerful author platform that attracts new readers on autopilot (in my first year of publishing fiction, I made over 40K — I plan to double it in 2018).

The amazing folks over at Writers helping Writers have me over there for a guest post on using Scene and Sequel to write better fiction, control pacing, and ensure that every scene matters.

I've been writing fiction for over 10 years, publishing and editing professionally for 5, and now I'm available directly for publishers and indie - authors alike on a per - project basis.

A born storyteller, the author has written and digitally published over 100 cutting - edge short fiction pieces.

I worked in bookstores for over 20 years, large and independent, while also writing my own fiction.

Whenever I hear someone denigrating the self - publishing option, I think of the many tales of woe that I read and heard over the years from traditionally published authors — stories that discouraged me, for a long time, from writing fiction.

Flash fiction writing advice so often focuses on moderation — on cutting out needless words, creating this myth of a world where every word matters, where the writer exerts complete control over every choice.

In a good flash fiction there is no over writing because words are at a premium.

Write with me: over four weeks, you'll discover HOW to not only write short fiction, but also make money aWrite with me: over four weeks, you'll discover HOW to not only write short fiction, but also make money awrite short fiction, but also make money at it.

While I agree with Kristen that blogging makes us write «leaner, meaner, faster, and cleaner», so does short story writing, so does flash fiction writing, and so does a few rounds with an experienced editor over your novel.

T. C. Southwell has written over thirty fantasy and science fiction novels, as well as five screenplays.

I'm always jealous of fiction writers who have a second marketable skill, who chose writing over some other career at which they might have been, or were, equally proficient.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

Nguyen's next fiction book, The Refugees, is a collection of perfectly formed stories written over a period of twenty years, exploring questions of immigration, identity, love, and family.

BOSTROM: Do you, as a writer of both fiction and nonfiction, have a preference for writing one over the other?

Sure, once you're Stephen King or Nora Roberts and you've proven a hundred times over that you can write great fiction, you can get by with starting all kinds of new series and writing lots of stand - alone novels.

While writers might disagree over showing versus telling or plotting versus pantsing, none would argue this: If you want to write strong fiction, you must make your readers feel.

Lots of other areas transfer over into fiction writing.

If you can manage to actually write ten hours per week of original fiction, just over one hour per day, you would produce a half million words of fiction in one year.

Way back, over two years ago now, I did a post in my Killing the Sacred Cows of Publishing series called «Myth: You Can't Make Money Writing Fiction.»

I have been writing adult historical fiction for over thirty years.

The work has resulted in more than thirty articles, stories, blogs and flash fiction collaborations and over a hundred members attending creative thinking and writing workshops at CIPFA conferences — smashing another stereotypical view of dull, uncreative accountants.

«[A] beta reader... is a non-professional reader who reads a written work, generally fiction, with the intent of looking over the material to find and improve elements such as grammar and spelling... [and give] suggestions to improve the story, its characters, or its setting.»

How else do you explain the fact there are so many indie authors writing science fiction, fantasy and certain sub-genres of romance who are making livings from writing in genres all but abandoned by traditional publishing over the years?

I've been writing fiction for over thirty years, and so far I've published seven novels, two novellas, and a collection of flash fiction.