Sentences with phrase «shaped by fiction»

But I'm first and foremost a reader, and I like the version of reality shaped by fiction on the page, writing that succeeds because its aim is to evoke, not mimic.

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It did not look like a comet either, appearing under telescopic scrutiny to be shaped like a half - kilometer - long needle — a form unknown among natural solar system objects but often favored by starships in science fiction.

After Earth shapes them as science fiction with Will and Jaden Smith playing father and son, stranded on a post-apocalypse Earth, stalked by an alien monster trained to kill humans and smell human fear.

His vision of women seems shaped by lad magazines, video games aimed at eternal teenagers, and the most juvenile «adult» science fiction and fantasy.

It wants to say a lot of things about the way people voluntarily recreate themselves, either by embracing a change of scenery and circumstance, or by letting fantasy archetypes and familiar fictions shape their self - images.

The book has all the elements of a seductive mystery story, albeit a story shaped by facts, not fiction.

Jamel Brinkley's stories reflect the tenderness and vulnerability of black men and boys whose hopes sometimes betray them, especially in a world shaped by race, gender, and class - where luck may be the greatest fiction of all.

The UnAmericans, a stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, is the debut work of fiction by Molly Antopol, a 2013 National Book Foundation «5 Under 35» Honoree.

A winning book from each category will be chosen through a multi-pronged judging process led by top Canadian authors — Charlotte Gray for Non-Fiction; Miriam Toews for Literary Fiction; and Ian Hamilton for Genre Fiction (Mystery), advisors who can help shape new writers» careers by imparting knowledge gained through their varied experiences within the industry.

I ended up doing this in a class offered by Tiffanie Debartolo (God Shaped Hole, How to Kill a Rock Star), about using things from real life and turning it into fiction.

1 Structure, Plan and Write 1.1 Turning Real Life Into Fiction 1.2 Kurt Vonnegut on the The Shapes of Stories 1.3 The 12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction 1.4 Plot Worksheets to Help You Organize Your Thoughts 1.5 The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel 1.6 Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction 1.7 Study the Writing Habits of Ernest Hemingway 1.8 Making Your Characters Come Alive 1.9 Vision, Voice and Vulnerability 1.10 10 Points on Craft by Barry Eisler 1.11 Coming up with Character Names 1.12 Using the Right «Camera Angle» for Your Writing 1.13 The Art of «Layering» in Fiction Writing 1.14 Weaving Humor Into Your Stories 1.15 On Telling Better Stories 1.16 The 25 Best Opening Lines in Western Literature 1.17 6 Ways to Hook Your Readers from the Very First Line 1.18 Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character 1.19 How to Finish A Novel 2 Get Feedback 2.1 Finding Beta Readers 2.2 Understanding the Role of Beta Readers 2.3 Find Readers By Writing Fan Fiction 2.4 How Fan Fiction Can Make You a Better Writer 3 Edit Your Book 3.1 Find an Editor 3.2 Directory of Book Editors 3.3 Self Editing for Fiction Writers 3.4 The Top Ten Book Self Editing Tips 3.5 Advice for self - editing your novel 3.6 Tips on How to Edit a Book 4 Format and Package Your Book 4.1 The Thinking That Goes Into Making a Book Cover 4.2 Design Your Book Cover 4.3 Format Your Book 4.4 Choosing a Title for Your Fiction Book 5 Publish 5.1 A Listing of Scams and Alerts from Writers Beware 5.2 Publishing Advice from JA Konrath 5.3 How to Find a Literary Agent 5.4 Understanding Literary Agents 5.5 Association of Authors» Representatives 5.6 Self - Publishing Versus Traditional Publishing 5.7 Lulu, Lightning Source or Create Spacby Barry Eisler 1.11 Coming up with Character Names 1.12 Using the Right «Camera Angle» for Your Writing 1.13 The Art of «Layering» in Fiction Writing 1.14 Weaving Humor Into Your Stories 1.15 On Telling Better Stories 1.16 The 25 Best Opening Lines in Western Literature 1.17 6 Ways to Hook Your Readers from the Very First Line 1.18 Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character 1.19 How to Finish A Novel 2 Get Feedback 2.1 Finding Beta Readers 2.2 Understanding the Role of Beta Readers 2.3 Find Readers By Writing Fan Fiction 2.4 How Fan Fiction Can Make You a Better Writer 3 Edit Your Book 3.1 Find an Editor 3.2 Directory of Book Editors 3.3 Self Editing for Fiction Writers 3.4 The Top Ten Book Self Editing Tips 3.5 Advice for self - editing your novel 3.6 Tips on How to Edit a Book 4 Format and Package Your Book 4.1 The Thinking That Goes Into Making a Book Cover 4.2 Design Your Book Cover 4.3 Format Your Book 4.4 Choosing a Title for Your Fiction Book 5 Publish 5.1 A Listing of Scams and Alerts from Writers Beware 5.2 Publishing Advice from JA Konrath 5.3 How to Find a Literary Agent 5.4 Understanding Literary Agents 5.5 Association of Authors» Representatives 5.6 Self - Publishing Versus Traditional Publishing 5.7 Lulu, Lightning Source or Create SpacBy Writing Fan Fiction 2.4 How Fan Fiction Can Make You a Better Writer 3 Edit Your Book 3.1 Find an Editor 3.2 Directory of Book Editors 3.3 Self Editing for Fiction Writers 3.4 The Top Ten Book Self Editing Tips 3.5 Advice for self - editing your novel 3.6 Tips on How to Edit a Book 4 Format and Package Your Book 4.1 The Thinking That Goes Into Making a Book Cover 4.2 Design Your Book Cover 4.3 Format Your Book 4.4 Choosing a Title for Your Fiction Book 5 Publish 5.1 A Listing of Scams and Alerts from Writers Beware 5.2 Publishing Advice from JA Konrath 5.3 How to Find a Literary Agent 5.4 Understanding Literary Agents 5.5 Association of Authors» Representatives 5.6 Self - Publishing Versus Traditional Publishing 5.7 Lulu, Lightning Source or Create Space?

The agent helps shape the proposal (so that it is clear how the proposed work is different from and better than the competition) or work of fiction, finds a publisher, negotiates the contract, sells subsidiary rights to the work, intervenes when there is a controversy, whether it be over an editorial question or the publisher's promotion plans, weighs in with an opinion (e.g., the book cover), monitors the publishing process and steers the author's career, book by book.

By the early 1980s Jonas had begun to create complex, nonlinear narratives premised on literary and historical texts, including science fiction (Double Lunar Dogs, 1984), medieval Icelandic sagas (Volcano Saga, 1989), and, more recently, the writings and biography of the art historian Aby Warburg (The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things, 2004).

The Falling Fictions exhibition is «shaped» from a commissioned text by artist and writer Francesco Pedraglio.

The artist tells a story both familiar and fantastic woven with skewed perceptions and shaped by suggestive moments that tease the viewer into participating in a fiction that implicates reality within its idiosyncrasies.

Works being presented for the first time at the Hayward Gallery include a specially commissioned bell by Steven Claydon, cast at the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, which will chime 21 times a day; a new outdoor installation by Keith Wilson, a new film The Empty Plan by Anja Kirschner & David Panos; a new chapter in Charles Avery's epic island - fiction in the shape of large scale drawing Untitled (View of the Port at Onomatopoeia); a new episode from Nathaniel Mellors» Monty Python - meets - Pasolini «soap opera», Ourhouse and a large canvas bear's body by Brian Griffiths — the head of which was shown at Nottingham.

They evoke shapes warped by alien science - fiction forces or twisted by altered perception.

2016 These Strangers... Painting and People, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Los Angeles: A Fiction, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, and Nicolas Garait, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway; traveled to Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France Route to (Re) Settlement, curated by Cecelia Stucker and Kimberly Light, Mann - Simons Site, Columbia, SC A Shape That Stands Up, Hammer Museum at Art + Practice, Los Angeles, CA 30 Americans, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Non-Fiction, curated by Noah Davis, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Intimisms, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Nothing Compares to You, Works from the Collection of Martin & Rebecca Eisenberg, Riverview School, Cape Cod, MA Making & Unmaking, curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK Dimensions of Black, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; traveled to The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA