Sentences with phrase «past fiction writing»

I decided to send a survey to my current and past fiction writing students.

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Suzanne has also taught language arts at the middle school and for the past 10 years has been writing fiction, including novels for children.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency - about 2 posts per month

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

Roman Polanski's Based on a True Story, contrary to its title, isn't: It's a fiction film about a successful author who avoids her past and an eerily obsessive fan who pushes her to write the «hidden book» her previous work seemed to promise.

If you add in the fact that Alice Sebold's past experience (as outlined in «Lucky») clearly colours the type of fiction she writes and how it makes me feel uncomfortable in the same way that anime's fascination with the atomic bomb does, then you'll understand why I was more than a little disappointed with The Lovely Bones.

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.

He is the author of The Career Novelist (1996), Writing the Breakout Novel (2001), Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook (2004) and The Fire in Fiction (2009)-- as well as numerous novels — and a past president of the Association of Authors» Representatives, Inc..

In my struggle to write truth and not fiction, I didn't realize, at first, how much we mythologize ourselves when we write about our pasts.

Whether you're writing a love story, a political thriller, or a science fiction epic, your character's past will influence his presence.

With flash fiction I was able to move past the fear and get back to novel writing.

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.

First of all, as Susanne Alleyn points out in her clever and very readable book, Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in thFiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myth, an author of historical fiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in thfiction needs to recognize that the city of today can be vastly different from the city of whatever time period you are writing about, and this is true even when you are talking about a relatively young city like San Francisco and a time period that is only 132 years in the past.

For the past several years I have been teaching a flash fiction course to my college creative writing program's advanced students...

Therese Heckenkamp, Christian fiction author of Frozen Footprints, After the Thaw, and Past Suspicion, has been writing stories since before she could spell.

Equally acclaimed for both his inventive biographies and his formally diverse fiction, Ackroyd blends past and present, fact and fiction in his writing.

In writing Jam on the Vine, my valentine to the black press, I've exercised my strong belief that historical fiction can go a long way in restoring marginalized groups to their rightful places within a society's past, present and future.

The co-owners of Castle Gate Press, Phyllis Wheeler and Suzanne Hartmann, attended the Realm Makers Writing Conference for Christian Speculative Fiction this past weekend.

I've read so much YA the past two years for reserach in writing (and because I like it), that I'd like to branch out and read more non-fiction and non-YA fiction this year.

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About Sachita D Ramdin: I hold a PhD in Cultural Anthropology and have been writing fiction, nonfiction, research papers, conference papers, speeches, scripts for Television Documentaries, poems, journal articles, to name a few for the past 20 + years of my academic career.

«Once in a while, a novel comes along so remarkable in its quality that it stands out not only as an example of what well - written fiction should be, but also as a satisfying reading experience all by itself... one of the most extraordinarily fine novels published in the past fifty years.»

A Critical Analysis of the Writing Style of Isabel AllendeMemory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we can not gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously — Isabel Allende Isabel Allende asked, «How can one not Continue reading

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar

She writes cross-generational, trans - Atlantic historical fiction, stories in which buried secrets from the past erupt into the present.

When writing historical fiction, the novelist must become an archaeologist — combining research and imagination to excavate relics of the past, confront ghosts, and make old stories new again.

An awful lot of genre fiction published over the past 50 - 60 years would have gotten slapped with the fanfic label if written today.

The book you write and self - publish could be the most exciting work of fiction in a decade, a riveting looking into current events, a historical recounting of past events every history professor should read, a guide to your own personal area of expertise, or any of countless other types of book; but in terms of how you sell the book, it is just a unit.

In the past decade, Alice has taught writing workshops to thousands of aspiring fiction and memoir authors of nearly all ages from 9 to 90 both around the corner and across continents.

They don't really know what they're missing — the fulfillment from writing to a live audience; the depth of the reading experience made possible only through the web, something that we as web fiction readers have had the luck to experience over the past couple of years.

Between four and six romance novels written by women have made it to the top 10 New York Timesbestseller lists for e-book fiction and combined print and e-book fiction every week during this past February, including Someone to Love by Addison Moore.

I write psychological fiction that explores emotional realities informed by past experiences, dreams, feelings, fantasies, nightmares, imagination, and self - analysis.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month.

«I believe that one reason I began writing essays — a form without a form, until you make it — was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story,» Als writes in the introduction to his forthcoming book, which is titled after the exhibition.

Gazing into the future is premised on revisiting the past with a lucid eye, parsing through myths that accreted as foundation for the writing of history, of the fictions that define nations, of the fabricated narratives that fragment history into centres and peripheries, occupied respectively by winners and losers.

[2] Robert Smithson, «I am convinced,» he wrote, «that the future is lost somewhere in the dumps of the nonhistorical past; it is in yesterday's newspapers, in the jejune advertisements of science fiction movies, in the false mirror of our rejected dreams.

Pursuing a unique and idiosyncratic approach to writing fiction in his 1999 «Endland Stories» collection and subsequent publications, Etchells has also led the performance group Forced Entertainment, based in Sheffield since its inception in 1984, renowned for making and touring theatre performances, live art, video & durational performance throughout the UK, Europe and locations around the world, and widely considered to be one of the greatest British theatrical exports of the past 30 years.

In a catalog essay on my recent paintings, Carmen Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, wrote «Deborah Zlotsky's paintings are, at their essence, a convergence: of Renaissance images and pop art, of the past and present, of science fiction and reality, of physicality and illusion.»

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month.

I write psychological fiction that explores emotional realities informed by past experiences, dreams, feelings, fantasies, nightmares, imagination, and self - analysis.

For the past decade I've been helping indie authors design, publish and promote their books, but now I want to write my own.Experiments in popular fiction by a literary scholar Frequency about 2 posts per month Website urbanepics.com + Follow Facebook fans - 7,750.

In the past few years, Lorelie has written 3 fiction books: Gracie's Secret, Jagged Little Edges and Jagged Little Lies.

I write psychological fiction that explores emotional realities informed by past experiences, dreams, feelings, fantasies, nightmares, imagination, and self - analysis.