Sentences with phrase «short narrative stories»

Publishing writing starts with our own short narrative stories and morphs into the publication of How To's, informational writing, poetry, and more.

Enclosed you will find five pages of a short narrative story that has a certain rhyme and rhythm to it that students will enjoy!

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The course: This specialization created by Wesleyan University consists of four courses, each taught by a teacher below, and covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir.

The course: This short 40 - minute class breaks down the fundamentals of narrative storytelling and what makes a story different from a mere anecdote.

All of these stories depend on the narrative Musk feeds — that he's not into details, doesn't care if Tesla keeps its short - term promises, and that long - term screw - ups on which short sellers are counting are just a series of short - term messes the boss is already too proud to clean up.

It's biblical narrative, but in short story form, but it doesn't end there.

And no, a narrative in a 1500 - year old collection of short stories is not considered scientific evidence or proof of anything, no matter how many people believe it.

A narrative form of analogy frequently found in religious teachings is the parable, a short fictional story whose characters are taken from everyday life.

For my own short film, Many Worlds, algorithms use brainwaves, muscle tension, perspiration and heart rate in a selection of the audience to adjust the story in real time, choosing the most appropriate of the film's four narratives to maximise intensity.

The first short story, Snow White is Dead, has 48 different narrative paths, selected automatically based on the results of an EEG brainwave monitor attached to the computer on which the e-book is being read.

In short, the story of oxygen in our atmosphere comes down to understanding the sources and sinks, but the 3 - billion - year narrative of how this actually unfolded is more complex.»

The studio also announces SmuggleCraft: Stories from the Sideways, short stories from the world of SmuggleCraft, by narrative designer Caleb Sawyer, availabStories from the Sideways, short stories from the world of SmuggleCraft, by narrative designer Caleb Sawyer, availabstories from the world of SmuggleCraft, by narrative designer Caleb Sawyer, available now!

A tightly focused romantic drama that exudes the narrative terseness of a good short story and the lucid craftsmanship of a filmmaker in full command of the medium.

Nicolas Roeg's trademark non-linear approach to narrative is put to unnerving use in this haunting adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's short story about a couple, John and Laura Baxter (played by Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie), who relocate to Venice in an attempt to come to terms with the accidental death of their young daughter.

For a faithful adaptation of a short story, the film is packed with plot twists and narrative surprises and the challenge faced by the Spierig Brothers is obscuring details that would give away the twists without making it obvious.

A few unexpected minor pleasures: the time - travel flick Predestination, an adaptation of a Robert A. Heinlein short story that's one of those rare sci - fi movies that feels like it was made by people who read sci - fi; the horror Western Bone Tomahawk, which feels, in the best way, like someone filmed a first draft script and didn't cut anything, all its little quirks of character kept intact, narrative expediency be damned; and In The Heart Of The Sea, the cornball sea adventure of which I enjoyed every minute.

Certain Women takes several short stories by Maile Meloy and uses them to create three only very loosely connected narratives, which are presented one by one through the bulk of the film, before revisiting them all briefly in the finale.

Based on a book of short stories by James Franco (who co-stars in the film), the film features interconnected narratives involving a soccer player (Emma Roberts) getting...

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The ultimate haptic heroine of the AFI FEST was the unnamed protagonist of Krotkaya (A Gentle Creature), the third narrative film of the Berlin - based Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitza.45 The Russian title is that of the original short story by Dostoyevsky (1876) about a meek young woman inexplicably committing suicide, but, in its country of production (France), the film is called Une Femme douce — like the 1969 adaptation of the same story by Robert Bresson directed.

Whilst story-wise, it stops short of the best narrative led games like Heavy Rain (or dare I say LA Noire, which story wise is a great achievement), it's a solidly enjoyable storyline which seems to have some thought put into it.

More difficult is the tedium that often accompanies the addiction / recovery / relapse narrative — a problem currently up for deconstruction in Leslie Jamison's new memoir, «The Recovering,» in which the author frets that stories of sobriety get the literary equivalent of short shrift, unable to compel us the same way that stories of addiction do, with their manic highs and grand tales of misbehavior.

Although Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt were able to make much more out of a collection of Raymond Carver's short stories with 1993's Short Cuts, Jesus» Son manages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've short stories with 1993's Short Cuts, Jesus» Son manages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've Short Cuts, Jesus» Son manages to blend its stories together into a nearly seamless narrative, sliding dreamily from one episode to the next before we even realize we've gone.

The narrative may have its clunky moments, but the central conceit of the Ted Chiang short story from which it's adapted carries the movie through, as does Amy Adams» lead performance, which surprisingly reminded me of Sigourney Weaver.

It seems like a fairly simple plot, but Cave Story packs a lot of emotion and thought into its relatively short narrative.

Writer / director Andrew Haigh, adapting from a short story by David Constantine, keeps the narrative completely grounded in reality.

Short Film Jury Awards Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Short: Little Accidents, directed by Sara Colangelo (USA, 2009) Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary Short: White Lines And The Fever: The Death Of DJ Junebug, directed by Travis Senger (USA, 2010) Jury Statement: «For the way the story seamlessly reveals itself through the compassion Grand Jury Prize for Best Animated Short: The Wonder Hospital, directed by Beomsik Shim (USA, 2010) Special Jury Mention for Short Animation: Cherry On The Cake, directed by Hyebin Lee (United Kingdom, 2009)

During our short interview, the director told us what about the story spoke to him, its unpredictable narrative, and why The Book of Henry felt like a bigger risk than Jurassic World.

For his part, Haigh has expertly adapted the short story by David Constantine into an insightful and poignant screen narrative, and his measured, empathetic direction allows his characters to shine.

The formats included are the following: Letters Speeches Reviews Reports Articles Leaflets Narrative piece (short story)

At a recent UTS research afternoon with FASS colleagues, I shared a very personal STEM story in 3 minutes — it started with a narrative — a bit shocking for the audience... it has been made into short film and will be online soon.

Research Labs presents instruction in four 9 - week modules that address narrative, argumentative, and informational writing and genre study (e.g., short story, novel).

Narrative Magazine awards a US$ 4000 new and emerging writers» prize for the best short story, novel excerpt, poem, one - act play, graphic story, or work of literary nonfiction published in the magazine.

Byars eventually finished college, and he now writes short stories and serves as an assistant editor for Narrative magazine.

It curates news stories from all over the internet and has a great blend of short and long narratives.

When so many fiction writers crowd their stories and novels with hundreds of characters and thousands of extraneous details, it's calming to settle into Lynch's rich, tightly focused narratives... The old and the new, the living and the dead: this collection of short stories is a trove of carefully observed lives.

With a narrative that unfolds in a procession of photographs, sketches, scrap paper, wine labels, mix - CD playlists, IM sessions, TV stills, letters sent home from school, and other bits of visual imagery overlaid by short bursts of text, this is a book that plays with the boundaries between novel, graphic novel, scrapbook story, and multiplatform blitz (paid apps, YouTube videos, and an interactive, electronic version of the book are also in the offing).

I've always been a kind of omnivorous reader, devouring fiction, nonfiction, narrative essays, short stories, books about science — you name it.

Although there is a bit of a narrative thread — the reporter is the estranged son of a famous gourmet — each volume is a collection of self - contained short stories and can be read on its own.

Personal and passionate, Giovanni's short narrative talks about the sacred songs first sung by slaves, tracing how people in bondage created the great spirituals to tell their stories, and what the songs (presented in full at the end of the book) still mean to us today.

It's another example of something I find in a lot of narratives, whether short or long: in order to get the story told, you have to tell two stories.

Her most recent announcement involves the launch of three ebooks early next month, which will include short stories and first - person narrative of her behind - the - scenes work on the series.

John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000, My Father's Tears finds the author in a valedictory mood as he mingles narratives of his native Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel.

Her short stories have appeared in Glimmer Train, The Southern Review, The Yale Review, Five Points, Narrative, and other publications.

These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph - length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs.

Elizabeth Stuckey - French is a highly regarded author of literary fiction whose short stories have been shortlisted for PEN / O» Henry Prize and Narrative honors, but she's written a darkly funny, deeply ironic book that deserves to become a wildly popular novel (and will become that if Amazon figures out the book's potential and prices it to sell.)

The first formal collection of short stories using narrative prose was published in around 1810 although numerous individual short stories had begun being published in the last years of the eighteenth century.

He invented the modern short story by changing the thrust of the narrative from mere relation of events to the revelation of character through incident.

Aliu's short story collection, Domesticated Wild Things, was the winner of the 2012 Prairie Schooner Book Prize, and her wit, wisdom and narrative prowess will win you over.

Master of thrilling nonfiction Michael Lewis (Flash Boys, The Blind Side) excels at breaking down the most important stories in the world of American finance and economics into character - driven narratives, and The Big Short is no exception.