Sentences with phrase «same as a short story»

Not exact matches

A short and colourless story was provided by the Canadian Press, without a single word of fulminating commentary from the opposition, as when the same thing happened to NDP governments.

Wright begins with a painfully short analysis of the early church and the assembling of the canon, noting that the emergence of Gnosticism and other heresies led to an emphasis among early Christians on the historical nature of the church as rooted in the Jewish story, stressing «the continuity from Jesus» day to their own, and indeed on the continuity of the people of Abraham, transformed through Jesus the Messiah but still obedient to the same world - transforming call.»

A shelf full of books — eight novels, seven collections of short stories, three memoirs, and 11 works for children, to be exact — explore the same theme as his recent novel Shosha: the theme of cosmic exile, wherein God has forgotten his graciousness.

If I would have turned in those same items as part of a short story in English class, I would have not gotten higher than a «C» because of all the ridiculous contradictions.

can't see us wining the title city are clear favorites already welbeck / wilshere / rosciky are out injured + if coq gets injured it will be arteta / flamini in cdm giroud / sanchez form is also a big concern as always wenger has the squad short & at the end of the season it will be the same old story the cycle will keep repeating unless klopp / guardiola / ancelotti comes in

Then just to give us a short break, these same rumour mongers announce stories, designed to add more click bait to bolster their media and blog site advertising revenues, they feed us cute stories which are hard to prove, or disprove, as falsehoods often are.

The fact that the stories contradict one another allows the movie to do a few other things that put it in the same category as a movie like The Big Short: It breaks the fourth wall, gives multiple perspectives on the same events, and occasionally employs a split screen in order to emphasize how mushy the concept of «facts» are in any sensational news story.

Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his short story «Animal Rescue,» the movie doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work («Mystic River,» «Gone Baby Gone»), but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

WHY: Adapted by esteemed crime writer Dennis Lehane from his own short story, «The Drop» doesn't have the same cynicism as past adaptions of the author's work, but it's a grimy little crime drama that harkens back to the great Sidney Lumet films of the 1970s.

Pixar's latest short, «Piper», about a baby sandpiper and his mother, uses the same excellent nature / background animation techniques as «The Good Dinosaur», but its story is so simple and underdeveloped that it is instantly forgettable.

There's a whole raft of supplementary content, some on the same disc as the feature (the Day & Night short that complemented Toy Story 3's theatrical release, for example), but most on a separate second BD disc.

Based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 children's book of the same name, Jumanji, the film, fleshes out the short book to include a story about Alan Parrish (Hann - Byrd, Little Man Tate), who, as a young boy struggling with isolation and abandonment in 1969, winds up finding a strange board game.

Baumbach is one of cinema's sharpest writers of naturalistic dialogue, capable of ringing out layers of meaning from casual exchanges, and here he's at his pithy best: Bernard's offhand categorization of his student's short story to his teenage son as «very feminist but very interesting» belies depths of misogyny and elitism, while his graceless romantic counsel to Walt leads the teen to ditch his perfectly reasonable girlfriend, Sophie (Halley Feiffer), with the same projectiles of secondhand rhetoric that he unveiled to initially charm her.

The movie is in the same vein as «Tales From the Crypt» and «Vault of Horror» as it brings stars together in an anthology film comprised of short stories.

Adapted from the James Joyce story of the same name (it has featured in the acclaimed Irish writer's short works collection Dubliners), The Dead was Huston's 37th feature film as a director, and came just two years after his final Academy Award ® nomination for Prizzi's Honor.

Before I Disappear is the same story, only expanded, and I must admit that I preferred it as a short.

Day 2 of my Roald Dahl themed Summer Camp (originally for Korean EFL students) Includes: * A short summary of the story - using images from the film and Quentin Blake illustrations * A board game and counters that I made (the same rules as «snakes and ladders») * Team activity «Egg Drop» where students must construct a contraption using art supplies to protect their egg when it is dropped from a window.

As they become familiar with the story and vocabulary, the pupils gain the confidence to then work in groups and write their own short story based on the same format, and add their own actions.

Albrecht Goertz's gorgeous 503 could not have come at a worse time for BMW, as Douglas Blain explains in Drama Queen / In 1966 and All That, Steve Welsh reports from the unrivalled Goodwood Revival historic race meeting, which this year marked 50 years since Australian driver Jack Brabham won the Formula One World Championship in a car of his construction / Kit Foster tells the story of the American Underslung, the first American sports car, and examines one of the prized survivors of this pioneering but short - lived marque in Swing low, sweet chariot / In his article, Cross-Channel concours, Jörg Sierks chooses his favourites from two prestigious concours events, held on the same weekend on opposite sides of the English Channel / With the help of rarely seen archive photographs, D'Arcy Lever looks back at the highly effective trials specials built by Sydney Allard before World War Two.

Fast forward a bit and those of us who wrote long fiction started looking at our royalty reports and realized that we were making the exact same amount per borrow for a five thousand word short story as we were for a hundred thousand word novel.

KU adopted a more fair approach of paying per page which meant short stories no longer brought in the same payment per «read» as novels did.

Following his Pulitzer Prize - winning The Known World, Jones presents a collection of fourteen short stories centered in Washington D.C - the same location as his first book of short stories, Lost in the City - a place that he knows well having been born and raised there.

Etgar Keret, an Israeli author / filmmaker, is known internationally as a writer of short, fantastical, and extremely funny stories that are sure to have you laughing and thinking at the same time.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.

For my short story, since I wanted it to be the same level of quality as my novels, I treated it the same as far as distribution.

That's the same as with any short story submission, certainly, but with one of these, the bar is sometimes a bit higher than «normal» fiction.

Back when our children were small, we'd have an audio book playing on even short journeys as the stories were just a few minutes long and the children would happily listen to the same story, or parts of it, again and again - and again!

He has published two novels, The Last Warner Woman and The Same Earth (unpublished in the U.S.), as well as several collections of poetry and a book of short stories, The Fear of Stones and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best Firsstories, The Fear of Stones and Other Stories, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best FirsStories, which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best First Book.

This is a short story that tells the same type of story as the devil and Daniel Webster.

I like the idea of using the subscription model for older works, short stories / novellas and promotional bits — same as a lot of indie writers current write an introductory novella to a series they're working on and offer it on the Kindle Store for free or 99 cents to draw in an audience to their universe.

McInerney's splendid short stories concern the same people and places as his more famous novels.

Long story short: Prices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook prices:

It does make me wonder if works will be sorted out by length in the future — perhaps a minimum price will be set for novels rather than selling the at the same price as a short story.

My single short story, same price, doesn't do nearly as well.

A short story can be distributed as easily and at roughly the same cost as a novel, so suddenly there was a market for short fiction again.

There's only one way he can save them... Lucifer's Fall is a short story written in the same world as the Celestial Downfall trilogy...

And it makes sense; an author with their short story enrolled in KDP Select would make the same amount as the author with an epic fantasy submitted, in half the time (10 percent of the short story would be reached much more quickly than a 100 - thousand word tome).

They currently release A Bride's Story by the same author, Kaoru Mori, as well as a one - shot of her shorter pieces, Anything and Something.

Weeks before that, I had completed a short story set in the same world as The Gertrude Threshold with only two of the final novella's characters.

Alternatively, you could write an unrelated short story (publishers usually keep the rights to stories set in the same «world» as other stories you've published with them) and get it edited and turned into an ebook yourself, then offer that as a subscriber magnet.

The idea was to reward reader engagement with longer works, rather than pay short story authors the same amount as novelists.

After participating in the Wattpad community for eight months I've gathered 72 fans via four short stories, all based in the same world as my novel.

However, we do promote a bundle of short stories by the same author as long as they are book length.

In KU 1.0, however, where every title was treated the same regardless of size, and where buyers weren't limited in how many titles they could read, they read a lot of short stories, but the authors got paid the same as a novelist for each title read (well, 10 % read, which could be just 2 - 3 pages).

The amount of work that goes into writing 60,000 words is the same, regardless of whether or not you publish those 60,000 words as one novel or six, 10,000 word short stories.

A good story is still a good story, and a compelling nonfiction travel tale will not just evoke a strong sense of place, it will contain the same human themes and narrative elements as a good work of short fiction.

Naturally players are still required to survive for as long as possible against the waves of undead, and there are objectives in place that tell a short story for those interested, but the overall premise of a near standalone level experience is still much the same as recent Zombie outings.

But I need to address once again the importance of getting behind the story and the characters to see why this might not be too short of a game after all when you realize what you are left with as the game ends, and how much small environmental objects and characters you can interact and play with, and hopefully you get the same feeling I personally got.

Wednesday, March 17, 1 p.m. CCS Bard Galleries Pablo Helguera will perform «Wakefield» based on a short story of the same title by Nathaniel Hawthorne and utilizes the narration of the original text as well as elements from both theater and film.

This large - scale group show, co-curated by artist Laura Morrison, takes American writer Donald Barthelme's short story of the same name as a provocative starting point to consider how current modes of expression assume the distanced observer and represent, protect and expose the vulnerable subject.