Sentences with phrase «small writing group»

I actually started working through this book with a small writing group.

You can form or join small writing groups, intimate circles that meet regularly to discuss writing and share ideas and projects, or you can find a writing partner, someone you can bounce ideas off, swap work for critique, or even write projects with, in a partnership.

From widely recognized and established contests like the Writer's Digest International Self - Published Book Awards to local contests being held for members of small writing groups, published authors have a daunting list of contests and awards to consider pursuing.

Not exact matches

Blake, founder of The Nonverbal Group, helped me shift my focus from writing a great book — an overwhelming thought — to making small daily progress.

While the camp lasts 6 + weeks, founders and teams can come for 1 - 6 weeks, depending on their schedule,» she writes, adding, «In 2012, I led a similar group — although a smaller consortium in Ubud, Bali, called Startup Abroad.»

The Macro Man blog is written by Team Macro Man, a very small group of friends who are market participants with varied backgrounds are across asset classes, geographies, roles and institutions.

Buffett, who has argued that investors — both small and large — would be better off putting money in low - cost index funds, wrote in his 2005 shareholder letter that active management professionals (hedge funds), as a group, would underperform the returns achieved «by rank amateurs who simply sat still.»

Hence, if we look at the world of altcoins today, you would find that every single one has a small group of people actively marketing it, promoting it, writing ridiculously overhyped nonsensical puff pieces about it in the press, as well as coding it and mining it.

He leads small groups and writes the blog, Food in Gods Place.

Decades of «renewal» programmes in parishes which have taken the form of marketing fresh insights to small «encounter groups», often under the banners of buzzwords written on posters reminiscent of the kind which were used to promote five - year plans in the Soviet bloc, have done nothing to increase the numbers of practising Catholics.

It seems this article is written from mere subjective experiences from a likely very, very small group of unfortunate folks who had the displeasure of speaking with him.

Showing no disinclination to enter controversy, Fingarette writes: «Once we free ourselves of the discredited classic disease concept, we no longer limit our attention to a relatively small group of diagnosed alcoholics whose drinking behavior allegedly derives from a single causal origin and follows a single inexorable course.

Except among small groups such as the Quakers and Shakers, the role of women in shaping Christian worship was negligible until the 19th century, when hymns written by women began to be used in church services.

That decision alone allowed the interim report to be written and publicized — by a small group, it appears — without any countervailing information.

Again share what you have written with another person or with a small group.

Also, please contact me if you are a small group leader interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as part of a book study... or if you write for an online / print publication and would like a copy for review....

Maybe he wrote it just for his small group of Christians, none of whom were old enough to remember the crucifixion.

Thanks Kari, Making paella is fun anytime, even with a small group, but after writing this post, I'm dreaming of a backyard paella party, an open fire and one of those huge pans!

Strong written and oral communication and presentation skills and ability to present ideas clearly and compellingly, whether in small groups or in public speaking contexts;

I can only hope that this attempt is taken more seriously than the largely muted and clearly unsuccessful protests of late last season... although the plane writing escapade brought some much - needed attention to the matter, it failed to resonate with fence - sitters and those who had just recently fell off the Wenger truck... without a big enough showing of support the whole endeavor appeared relatively weak and poorly organized, especially to the major media outlets, whose involvement could have significantly changed what was to follow... but I get it, few wanted to turn on their club, let alone make a public display of their discord... problem is, they are preying on that vulnerability, in fact, their counting on you to keep your thoughts to yourself... who are you to tell these fat cats how to steal your money... they have worked long and hard to pull the wool over your eyes... they even went so far as to pay enormous sums of cash to your once beloved professor to be their corporate spokesmodel so that the whole thing would be more palatable... eventually the club made it appear as if this was simply a relatively small fringe group of highly radicalized supporters, which allowed the pro-Wenger element inside the club hierarchy to claim victory following the FA Cup win... unfortunately what has happened to this club can't be solved by FA Cups or a few players coming in, the very culture of this club needs to be changed and that starts at the top... in order to change the unhealthy and dysfunctional narrative that has absorbed this club we need to remove everyone who presently occupies a position of power... only then can we get back to the business of playing championship caliber football, which should always be the number one priority of this organization... on an important side note, one of the most devastating mistakes made in the final days of this hectic and poorly planned transfer window didn't have to do with the big name players like Sanchez or Lemar, but the fact that they failed to secure Jadon Sancho, who might even start for Dortmund this season... I think they might seriously regret this oversight... instead of spending so much time, energy and manpower pretending that they were desperately trying to make big moves, they once again lost the plot due to their all too familiar tunnel vision

Fine motor skills are those that require the ability to use and coordinate small muscle groups and are important for writing, shoe - tying, buttoning, and zipping, among other things.

Wordsmith Express (Wellesley, MA) is a small - group summer writing program for elementary students.

Spending one to two hours a day in the world of words, students will gain valuable writing skills while unleashing their creativity in a lively and collaborative small - group setting.

He wrote on his Facebook wall that «very far - reaching» discussions on the theme «Adding Global Value» will be had along with impactful side events on Climate Change, as well as a session of the CHOGM Small Group Meeting on Anti-Corruption.

The Lifting the Restrictions on Nest report comes after groups including the TUC, Age UK and the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) wrote to Pensions Minister Steve Webb last month, urging him to lift the barriers around Nest as soon as possible.

The Group also expects to report a number of smaller asset write - downs in the order of US$ 500 million.

Last week, a group of upstate legislators, led by Assembly Majority Leader Joe Morelle, expressed concern in a letter written to Cuomo that lifting the perimeter rule would reduce the number of smaller commuter flights out of LaGuardia to underserved upstate cities like Buffalo and Rochester.

«[The] team has a proven track record of working with the small business community and ensuring that their success is our success,» Roy Hastick, CEO of the Caribbean American Chamber of Commerce and Industry, one of the endorsing groups, said in a written statement.

Written materials were provided to Assembly members and senior political science graduate students facilitated their small group discussions.

They operate in small collaborative groups that actually can meet with each other to write legislation.

«The media overlap in Johnstown - where all three stations are either owned or managed by the Baltimore - based Sinclair Broadcast Group - is part of a trend that has spread across the country,» they write, «as a small number of large holding companies are taking over local TV stations, often more than one in the same market.»

«The most common path to the presidency is through a governor's office (19 out of 43) and the most common governor's office to hold is New York (4 out of 19),» Assemblyman Bill Nojay, the freshman legislator who represents the Rochester area, wrote in the memo given to Mr. Trump and a small group of Republicans.

The children spend time during the day in small groups at «centers» around the room — they can choose art, house, blocks, writing, computer or a «sensory table» with water, shaving cream or other interesting substances and materials.

«In many respects Trump is not considered a Republican — he is his brand, an almost iconic figure of Rockefellerian proportions,» Mr. Nojay wrote in October in a three - page memo, «2014 NY Governor Race Analysis,» which he sent to a small group of party members, including Edward F. Cox, the state's party chairman and a son - in - law of President Richard M. Nixon.

A writing coach usually works one - on - one or with a small group.

At the BioCurrents Research Center, a small but industrious group of researchers is working hard to create new molecular detection tools designed to enable innovative research, writes Shana Katzman.

In 2004, as she was finishing writing her postdoctoral papers and expecting a daughter, Pfanner offered Chacinska the opportunity to start a small group to investigate the MIA pathway in collaboration with his own lab.

«The problem seems to be that the circling of the wagons strategy developed by small groups of climate researchers in response to the politically motivated attacks,» Judith Curry, a climatologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta wrote in an internet posting this week.

The reason behind this being that it was a small group of women I admired, and knew that it went beyond writing meaningless comments on every single picture.

And it's exactly what Alvin Toffler said when he wrote «Future Shock»: it gets smaller and smaller, down to groups or obsessions that are mere particles, in Toffler's language.

A curious group of small town high school students discover a malevolent diary with the power to manifest any evil written in its pages, sparking a wave of terror that soon threatens to engulf their entire community.

In his «Allegory of the Cave» Plato wrote of a small group of people living in a cave, the only environment they knew.

Hawley, who wrote and directed the episode, focuses on a small group at the start: Emmitt and Ray Stussy (Ewan McGregor), Nikki Swango (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), and to a lesser extent, Police Chief Gloria Burgle (Carrie Coon).

For Olivia Dejazet (Marina Foïs), a famous crime novelist teaching writing to a group of small - town teens in Laurent Cantet's The Workshop, that student is Antoine (Matthieu Lucci), an angry young man with an unhealthy interest in stories of mass murder.

Anticipated by many as director Ben Wheatley «s follow - up to the deviant and brutal «Kill List,» a smaller group (including, and possibly consisting only of, me) were looking forward to it because it was written by and starred comedic hidden gems Alice Lowe and Steve Oram; the former a veteran of the great «Garth Marenghi's Darkplace,» the latter a live circuit favorite I last saw performing in a pub in Clerkenwell, wearing a dress and howling like a wolf.

Sayles, who had written the Jaws spoof Piranha (which Spielberg loved), based his concept on the classic John Ford Western Drums Along the Mohawk, about a group of settlers besieged in a small fort by an army of Pro-British forces and the Mohawk tribe during the American Revolution.

One of Greenwood's major projects has been «writing scored music for small string groups,» including residencies with the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the London Contemporary Orchestra.

You can start by sharing the reasoning behind everyday, small decisions, like why tutoring groups have been created in a specific way, how you've established budget numbers, or why you've written a grant proposal for iPads instead of laptops.

Stations with self - guiding questions for reflection can be a great way to allow students to move through the writing process at their own pace, and the teacher can rotate through the stations, addressing small groups of students instead of the whole class.

Small group discussions, writing prompts, time for reflections, and the setting of norms for these conversations can help to create a place where kids feel safe to have what will quite possibly be a very uncomfortable conversation.