Sentences with phrase «pretty good writer»

I'm a pretty good writer, if I say so myself.

After you write a few more books, you may become a pretty good writer.

Though I am a pretty good writer (* muscle cramp from patting self on the back), every now and then, Kristen Lamb needs to beat me over the head about not letting my plot degenerate into simply a series of bad situations.

I'm a pretty good writer now, but I'm still not awesome at it.

The first conversation I have with nearly every C - level executive who comes to me starts with their sheepish confession that, although they know the value they offer and they're pretty good writers, they have no idea how to put that on paper so they'll get the attention they deserve.

Not exact matches

they have really talented writers who are pretty good at what they do, who are not going to let a brother fall flat on his face.

«When I go to SNL, they have really talented writers who are pretty good at what they do, who are not going to let a brother fall flat on his face.

Pretty good for a writer whose first manuscript was rejected by 14 publishers.

He's actually a pretty good journalist, unlike certain blog editors and article writers.

As someone who's pretty good at being critical, I just wanted to make sure the writers know how great it is that they put themselves out there for us to throw darts at.

I might not be a writer myself but I feel the content in the articles are «usually pretty good» (some writers ofcourse) but the titles just blows people off and others rush into comments reacting directly to the title rather than the issues raised.

The goofy affection of her poker buddies is fun, and the writers steer through some pretty well - mined territory with aplomb.

Director J Blakeson, working from a script credited to some heavy - hitting veteran writers (Akiva Goldsman, Susannah Grant and Jeff Pinkner), quickly establishes that Moretz's Cassie used to be a pretty average teenage girl in an idyllic Ohio town: soccer practice, keggers, a wisecracking best friend, an adorable younger brother (Zackary Arthur) and loving parents (Ron Livingston and Maggie Siff).

As the man most likely responsible for the better parts of Prometheus, Spaihts as writer means the sci - fi elements of this labeled «Epic Sci - Fi Romance» are apt to be pretty solid and Tyldum has proven his directing acumen aplenty.

From Steven Knight, the director of HUMMINGBIRD, writer of such brilliant films as DIRTY PRETTY THINGS and EASTERN PROMISES, as well as being the creator of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?

There is quite a lot of plot to work through in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Thor: The Dark World, the Narnia films) generally do a pretty good job at keeping the pace brisk and the exposition inventive.

1 First Reformed (Opens Friday, May 25) «I hope this isn't my last film, but if it is, it's a pretty good last film,» writer - director Paul Schrader says of his severe drama of a man facing a crisis of faith and the crisis of the planet.

Writer - director Rawson Marshall Thurber's gleefully silly Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story follows this rule in what plays like an extension of a Ben Stiller Show sketch (but a pretty good one, at that).

This interview was conducted just before Fantastic Four came out, and the writer, Chris Heath, notes that MBJ pretty well escaped the fiery inferno that took that movie down.

I noticed in the credits there are almost as many writers listed as actors, which is never a good sign, and one can be pretty sure there won't be a Dumb and Dumber 3.

It's a simple setup, but writer / director Steven Knight (Eastern Promises, Dirty Pretty Things) crafts a taught thriller and executes well.

Many would fail worse for less, but as a writer and director he proves himself to be a pretty good set designer.

It's difficult to describe the difference (at least prior to a pretty significant plot movement I'll get to shortly), but it feels like the references work better in The Lego Movie, possibly because Lord and Miller have a wider palette from which to paint, and possibly because they are simply better writers.

An umpteenth reworking of «La Ronde» didn't seem an obvious fit for either Fernando Meirelles or Peter Morgan — a pretty dispassionate writer even on his best form, he came badly unstuck last year when he veered from his fact - based template with «Hereafter.»

They have done it all - hung out at a convenience store («Clerks»), hung out at a mall («Mallrats») and even gave some pretty good advice to a lovelorn comic book writer («Chasing Amy»).

Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer's Digest (whom I worked with, and remains a good friend), pretty effectively dismantled that notion last year in her smart essay, «The Future of Self - Publishing Services ``:

Authors who are interested in establishing themselves as both better writers and as serious career - minded artists can benefit greatly from attending writers» conferences and workshops, but the cost of attending is often pretty prohibitive.

For newbies you are right as every new author needs to write, write, write for at least four years, time it takes to get a PhD in Letters before even submitting material to an agent or editor, but once any writer KNOWS intuitively that his or her novel is as good or better than James Patterson (pretty easy to better this guy) and he or she has had the novel vetted by a good independent editor / ghost writer like myself, the ebooks are the way to go, period.

But I've seen a number of writers whose early work is... well, pretty shakey, let's put it that way.

I know the traditional publishing system and I know it pretty well, having been a publisher, an editor, and a writer now for thirty years.

The idea that we're not better off with people being able to publish without «permission» from Manhattan or whereever is, really, pretty insulting to both writers and readers alike.

I know this post was pretty brutal, but the advice I offer my friends / writers within the genre is because I want them to continue their development as artists and feel as little pain as possible along the way as well as not compromise any future opportunities.

After many years of helping writers build their author platforms and decades of being plugged into the publishing industry through Writer's Relief, we've certainly seen more than our fair share of author websites — the good, the bad, and the not - so - pretty.

I feel like I can relate to teens pretty well, and I'll be running the teen track at the Florida Christian Writers Conference early next year.

If you're a writer, chances are pretty good you're also a reader.

As a writer, I have pretty ambitious goals but I hope to get there by just writing the best books I possibly can for people who like the kind of story that I tell.

Well, their readers, their fellow writers, pretty much everyone with any other opinion.

What worries me is the loss of income for writers in what is a pretty healthy market, the loss of good editors from publishing houses and the disdain for writers by retailers — people who depend on them.

It may take hundreds of hours of research to come up with a guess at the * best * option... but there are lots of pretty good options available to even a brand new writer.

That was 58RMB, it was to expensive for me to afford.At first.I thought it was a good book, and I spend all my money on this book.And I was pretty annoyed about this I don't have any other money for my breakfast, lunch, and even dinner.I haven't drink juice for the whole year.Reading this is a waste of time, no one want to see this book again.It was just rubbish, and smelly book.It tells my nothing.I even want to sell this to the writer, and ask to return my money and some extra.It cost me too much time, and too much money on it.I prefer to see a movie instead!!!

Hybrid writers do come out pretty well on the chart.

Only ebooks from top writers sound pretty good.

In the time it takes a traditional writer to spend the years doing that, an indie writer could already have a pretty good career built with a half - dozen or or more books published.

Presumably most writers with access to a public library are already pretty well known to the staff there.

The first skill is pretty obvious: your writer should be good at writing speeches.

Randy sez: Well, as I said in my post, the average and the median are pretty useless because they're both dragged down by the great mass of unpolished writers.

Author Erik Davis (also a writer for Wired, Bookforum, and The Village Voice) had remembered that in the mid-90s, «I got paid pretty good for a youngster — generally much better than I get paid now, when my career sometimes looks more and more like a hobby...» But he also noted that his career is «less driven by external measures of what a «successful» writing career looks like,» and he'd enjoyed spending his time writing about off - beat topics like mystical and counter-cultural threads in both technology and the media.

-- 7 Billion Needles Sometimes I feel guilty for not knowing more about Japanese science fiction literature, because manga writers seem to be pretty well - versed in the American stuff.

This was pretty good, but I felt it gave too much credit to author service companies like those under the umbrella of Author Solutions without giving them the kind of critical analysis that the folks at Writer Beware do.

However, every good English essay writer should be able to master the conceptual apparatus, to discuss the problems, cut from these problems a pretty heart «piece», perfect it as possible from his / her point of view revealing the abyss of problem.