Sentences with phrase «short story idea»

Each short story idea has its own natural length.

@Anne — I'm really liking the short stories idea a lot.

What we are doing is generating a random idea prompt, using the site Short Story Ideas.

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In short, startup marketers must tap into the «Story Button» part of the brain; an idea coined by advertising agency Innocean, and neuroscientist Paul Zak.

So, in short, this «evidence» that proves Christianity isn't so much scientific evidence as it is idealistic / philosophical / rhetorical resonance that may or may not occur when an individual encounters the Christian idea of Jesus and the death / resurrection story.

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

After all, he states in the prologue of his first anthology of short stories (1941): «It is an arduous and impoverishing whim to compose vast books, to extend for five hundred long - winded pages an idea whose perfect oral exposition lasts a few minutes.

Hello Ella I love your story I'm not a social media type of girl so only recently discovered your story via magazine (always last to a party lol) quick Google and found this amazing site long story short I was veggie for 10 years had babies and craved meat so gave In now 6 years on diagnosed with myasthenia gravis this is definitely the nudge I needed to get on track so today im going for it I will miss a bacon buttie but I'm really fascinated with the idea of maybe curing myself and if I don't try I'll never know.

The site is called ArsenalShorts, the idea is to save you trawling through the same old stories across all of the various papers and websites, you come here and six days later, you read all about the stories in succinct little nuggets, or... «shorts».

Point of story, i know kids SHOULD taste and eat all sorts of things, that kids should eat what's on the table and not have a short order cook, and i agree totally that they CAN eat the type of lunch pictured above, but one thing DOES bother me: Kids NEED fuel for their day, and i don't think giving them something completely new and fancy as a lunch is a great idea as the lunch will most likely end up still in the lunch box at the end of the day and you will have a famished child waiting for dinner.

I'm not sure I would... though I'd love to have the skill to write short stories to explore the outcomes of new ideas, like the best science fiction authors.

To cut a long story short, Margaret Thatcher became exasperated by the unrelenting rise in NHS costs, Clarke ran with the fundholding idea... and fundholding - which Andrew Lansley wants, some 20 years later, to expand - came into being.

I thought this was a wonderful idea when I read that it helps heal digestive problems, my fiancé has gastroperesis and he has a hard time digesting food, I also want to live more healthier and I love gummy candies, I also thought they would be perfect for the kids, but long story short, my fiancé (him being picky as he is) doesn't like the sour ones!

We're all for DIY ideas, but his homemade shorts (formerly a pair of ripped jeans) and sneakers he turned into sandals (true story) are just a little too thrifty for our taste.

Match's take on the stories idea lets singles stitch together short video clips to form their own dating profile story.

So long story short, although the Ukraine has adopted the Western cultures main idea of Valentine's Day, candy, flowers, dinner, etc., it seems to have adopted even more.

Work on Las Vegas date ideas and asking relevant speed - dating questions, mischievous teasing and a couple of interesting short stories to tell.

This attempt on Bradbury's short story began with a solid idea, but the outcome was probably less than what they expected.

The story is very short leaving you whining for more, but at least the developer added some cool other ideas.

Marred by bad design decisions, awfully short playtime and frustratingly easy puzzles, Yesterday is a game that starts really strong, has a great story idea, but utterly fails to hook the player.

The moderately successful artistic pursuits of this sculptor and retired Bard College professor, coupled with the short story structure of the film, lay the foundation for its exploration of the way in which history and perception become intertwined with identity and how people often cling to an idea of themselves, be it objective fact or socially constructed fiction.

Short of outright changing the story's conclusion, the film definitely does not convey the same closing ideas that the book does.

Young and brash, Karlson described his job as «washing toilets and dishes and whatever the hell they gave me» 4 and talked his way into a number of short - lived assignments as an assistant to directors Arthur Lubin, Henry Koster, Tay Garnett, William Wyler, Stuart Walker and John Ford, and successfully pitched a story idea to Will Rogers, who unfortunately died in a plane crash before the film could be made.

The premise of the original short story is that an ordinary man escapes into his imagination to get away from the mundane experiences in everyday life — and honestly, at a time when unemployment is rampant and wealth disparity is so enormous, that's an idea that could be amazingly resonant to many people.

Unfortunately, like many other origin stories that've been crafted for famous literary characters in the past (one recent movie example being Pan), Victor Frankenstein falls short at offering fresh insight on its namesake and / or showing the Frankenstein mythology's themes and ideas in a creative, new light.

Denis Villeneuve (Story of Your Life) is confirmed to be directing the screenplay by Hampton Fancher (who co-wrote the original) and Michael Green, based on an original idea from Fancher and Scott, and starring Ryan Gosling (The Big Short) and Harrison Ford (Star Wars), who is reprising his role as Rick Deckard.

William Harrison adapted his own short story for the screenplay, and in truth, Rollerball clearly derives from a brief sketch of an idea.

Nolan got the idea for «Memento» from his younger brother, Jonah, who learned about short - term memory loss in a psychology class and composed a short story on the subject (which he subsequently published in Esquire).

There's the suspicion that Penner (adapting a short story by Robert Damon Schneck) and director Stacy Title are simply assembling ideas and images that they have seen in other horror movies, hoping that we have been so inundated with certain clichés that we'll just look at this as another, regular - old horror movie — not the on - the - cheap job that it obviously is.

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What follows is the story of the ups and downs of going from the germ of an idea to a secondary school that serves students ages 12 and up — in short, the ways in which we avoided Horace's compromises or coped with those compromises we couldn't avoid.

I visited a 4th - grade English class where a boy was asked to identify the main idea from a short story.

Topics could include an explanation of a concept they learned in class, a short story, their favorite comment or idea that a classmate had, a reflection on a book they are reading, or a reflection on a political stance or social studies theme.

They can use their journals to jot down ideas during the school day or short stories during Genius Hour.

For short - term data, they decided to have pairs of students give classroom presentations about the main idea of a story, with the goal of seeing whether students could orally describe a main idea.

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Ian Fraser was present at the the centenary commemorations / For One Year Only — Michael Worthington - Williams relates the story of the short - lived British Lucar / Grand Tourer — Brian Heath tries out an Italian design which while conventional enough for the immediate post-WWI period exhibits some ingenious ideas and is every inch the grand tourer / Emancipation — Runner Bozi Mohacek owns a 1921 Citroen 5cv coupe.

But now I'm wondering if my plan to release short stories a month or two apart was such a great idea... Perhaps I can squish my timeline a bit.

I'm working on the sequel to «Weeping Well,» seven plays, a twelve book cozy mystery series and several short stories and other literary works and business ideas majority of them are already plotted out, and I've already started on them.

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.

I already touched on the idea of using a free ebook (a short story, a novella, or even a full - length novel) as a loss leader, the idea being that you can sell more of your other books by giving away free samples.

If reviews and sales rankings are anything to go by, readers aren't keen on the idea of $ 2.99 short stories, even by established authors.

And she shared lots of ideas like that: bundling the first 3, writing short stories or novellas for anthologies, bundling 3 previously released shorts into one independent ebook and print, etc..

I like the idea of using a short story related to the series as your freebie lead - in.

I also think the idea of a freebie short story is fantastic!

What I like about lyricists who are truly skilled is that they must write with clarity, brevity, and enable listeners to «fill the gaps» in emotion, atmosphere and ideas, much like the art of writing short stories, and the more recent popular flash fiction (not to mention nano fiction).