Sentences with phrase «short story work»

To make a short story work, you have to be talented and experienced.

Do you have a short story work - in - progress that just doesn't want to fit into 10,000 words or 25 pages?

I have done a lot of it, mainly in my short story work.

Not exact matches

«Dedication and hard work has yielded fantastic results in a short space of time and this is a real global success story for the UK sharing economy.

It's short stories on humanitarian workers working abroad; I could see myself doing that.

In a forthcoming short article in Canadian Business, I riff on a recent Globe and Mail story about a South African winery that is working hard to face up to its slave - holding past.

Long story short, my former employer couldn't make it work, especially for the risk to reputation, and withdrew.

The 87 - year - old was immortalized for works like Love in the Time of Cholera and One Hundred Years of Solitude, along with numerous short stories...

His short fiction has been collected into a hefty but inexpensive paperback volume (The Stories of John Cheever, Ballantine, 819 pp., $ 3.50); and on this work, I am convinced, Cheever's reputation will ultimately rest.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

I heard a story where a group of literature critics gathered monthly to read, analyze and critique various works of literature — poems, plays, short stories and novels.

His first two published works were short - story collections, The Prince of Darkness (1947) and The Presence of Grace (1956), whose contents could be divided evenly between the merely excellent and the truly extraordinary.

(If you have a subscription to The Work of the People, you can watch this short film of me telling that story in its entirety but here's a snippet at least.)

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.

I think the reason I am a short - story writer is so my mother can read my work in one sitting» (p. 340).

Without a doubt, our best short - story writer, this is my favourite collection of Munro's work.

There's one really, really short story that occurs to me: I was in a country next to Syria working with refugees.

Long story short, the capitalism that can raise standards of living around the world, is NOT the same capitalism at work in negotiating with people who are living on the edge of survival.

Country Lovers and City Lovers, two of six short films adapted from Nadine Gordimer short stories and locally produced, are well - wrought cries of controlled outrage against sexual apartheid.

It isn't possible for me to go into these stories in any detail in such a short time, so I thought, instead of doing that, I would like to devote my time this morning to addressing some of the main questions people have asked me repeatedly over the course of the last two years, when I was working on the book, and after the book had come out.

It's a long story (here's the long version), but the short of it is that we were trying to start a family and it wasn't working.

Long story short, there's a reason Progenex has been slapped with a bunch of lawsuits: their products do not work as - advertised.

Long story short, for a while (before I really knew any better) I worked out at such a high intensity for so long, while depriving myself of proper food and nutrient intake, that my body totally freaked out and decided not to have a period.

Outside of work he enjoys reading, films, the Wiltshire countryside, cooking, pubs, dreaming of a life in Burgundy and writing short stories — when he has the time.

a few of my grandchildren deciced they wanted to spend the weekend and while doing so decided to look for something they themselve could make for themand grandma for lunch while i was out doing things in the garden, so to make a long story short when asked if they could make lunch i said sure but no cooking on the stove.thinking that would save them geyying hurt in any way.i half exoecte beanut butter and jelly or ham and chesse sandwiches and chips or something but what got was This wonderful Taco Pizza., I always keep taco meat made up i the freezer along with all the other things in which to make easy fast dishes for them needless to say i was delighted and surprized., when i askes how they did it I was told thats for us to know and you to enjoy.well I did and i think that if a 14,10 and very very smart 3 yr old can make this its simply wonderful.thank you and it took some work but i bribed the 10 yr old into telling my where he found it thank goodness the computer has history, lol, and bookmarking.its something every mother or grandmother should try to make with their little taco lovers.thank you From a grandmother

Here is a few talking points which are doing the rounds, and start with the shortest - lived story, and work my way up to what I believe will be the longer saga.

«Long story short, I was walking in the hallway about to go to the indoor field and work out.

If you haven't read «Cat Person» yet — Kristen Roupenian's short story in the New Yorker of an ill - fated relationship (aka an uncomfortable one - night stand) between Margot, a 20 - year old college student, and Robert, a 34 - year - old man whom she met at the movie theater where she works — I'm betting you have at least heard of -LSB-...]

AG: The shorter version of my story is that I'd been working as a freelance food writer for about a decade but felt called to do something different.

Long story short... didn't work!

Developing grit — that quality of pushing through obstacles as we pursue something about which we're passionate — depends on the child working hard to accomplish her own goals, whether that's mastering a jump shot, short story, recipe or camping trip.

Ever since James started formula (super duper long story short, breastfeeding didn't work out), it was always a struggle for me to get his bottles ready AND warmed up.

When I left my job to be a SAHM I had big plans for how much more reading I was going to get done, what new exercise routines I would pick up and how I would devote at least an hour a day to working on short stories or a novel.

«While my husband travels for weeks at a time for work, he's still been able to connect with our kids by sharing special messages, songs, and even joining in for story time by sharing short stories recorded on our SoundBub.

Take «Late Carnations,» a short story about a young employee of China Datang Corporation, a large state - controlled power company, whose gruelling work ethic causes him to miss the final hours of both his parents.

In short, there are so many people who work on a story that all of them have to be trusted.

Sarah Story, a volunteer working with Jungle Books, told me that «the Jungle has a short memory.

I was working on a short story that later evolved into a novel called The Collapsium and eventually into a series of books collectively known as The Queendom of Sol, a future history of the solar system (and some parts beyond).

Space precludes a full listing here of every real - world marvel lifted straight from a work of futuristic fiction, but suffice it to say that an artificial Earth - orbiting satellite was depicted in the sci - fi short story «Brick Moon» by Edward Everett Hale in 1869.

The new work is also an incomplete draft, but is more like an anthology of 1,421 genetic short stories, averaging about 73,000 base pairs long.

Plague's current sluggishness poses a number of questions: How could a disease that does not seem to be highly contagious, as evidenced by the story of the woman who worked at the day - care center, slaughter millions in a short period of time?

Throughout these years, he worked on short story collections, set primarily in Vietnam and revolving around themes of conflict, family, religion, and history.

Ms. Obreht's work also has appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's, Zoetrope: All - Story, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Non-Required Reading.

Because Reinisch works with so many collaborators on multiple different aspects of membrane trafficking, her work is «more like thematic collections of short stories than a full - length novel,» she says.

Long story short, as promising as this statistic is, there's still more work to be done in the name of breast cancer prevention and treatment.

To make another long story short, I ended up doing the best thing that I probably ever could have done and that was working with Bob Atkins back in the early 2000s.

Short story... I've finally found several pre-made cleaner concentrates that I absolutely love, that are cost effective and that work really well:

So, long story short, if you have stress, you have relationship issues, you're working too much, plese address those issues, as well as address the protocol stuff.»

Long story short it did not work out.

I had some blood work come back with some issues and my regular doctor here in town said not to worry about it... Well... long story short... Dr Justin followed up with some more test and found and solved my problems... he also helped me find a doc...