Sentences with phrase «something about your fiction»

But that also means that when you're looking for publication, you'll want to add something about your fiction to your blog (or create a separate website).

Not exact matches

I had to fight my immediate prejudice and remind myself of something I've talked with others about for years — the increasing size of books, both fiction and non-fiction, to justify the inflated pricing from publishers.

Because science has kind of proven or talked about all those things you were just asking... maybe pick up a book other than a work of fiction and learn something that's real and tangible.

When all is said and done one is entitled to ask: have we really learned something about the Yahwist and the Bible or only something about the personal fictions of Harold Bloom?

If our models are to lead us to ask, and seek answers for, new questions about the world, we must regard them as something more than «logical superfluities», «illicit attempts at explanation», «convenient fictions», or the like.

Whether you believe the Book of Job is historical fiction or historical fact, everybody agrees that it is a theological masterpiece which was written to teach the readers something about God.

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

«I think you're making the very common mistake of imagining that a science - fiction writer knows something about the future.»

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All films are a work of fiction, that much is obvious, and a lot of them are prone to exaggerations, even biographical films, but there's something just so heavy - handed about the way this film presents its story, its world and its characters that's really off - putting.

There's something about the spectacle of movies like «King Kong» and «Godzilla» that's singularly cinematic — it's not something that other forms like theatre, TV, or fiction can do in quite the same way.

It is the reason why science fiction is my cinematic genre of choice — there is something thrilling about breaking the rules and getting away with it, and here is a world in which the laws of... Continue reading Annihilation

The test sees if a work of fiction involves two or more women talking about something other than a man.

So while Vernon, Florida has become something of a Medium Cool for a new generation of film brats (All the Real Girls director David Gordon Green cites the work as one of his all - timers), The Thin Blue Line has become the moment that many point to as the definitive modern reintroduction to the debate about the matter of degrees that separates fiction from non-fiction cinema.

It is the reason why science fiction is my cinematic genre of choice — there is something thrilling about breaking the rules and getting away with it, and here is a world in which the laws of nature really don't apply.

What you more often get from movies is something that could be called «science fiction - flavored product» — a work that has a few of the superficial trappings of the genre, such as futuristic production design and somewhat satirical or sociological observations about humanity, but that eventually abandons its pretense for fear of alienating or boring the audience and gives way to more conventional action or horror trappings, forgetting about whatever made it seem unusual to begin with.

It has to be about Forrest Gump and Pulp Fiction and Chungking Express (a film many of us only saw because Quentin Tarantino forced Harvey Weinstein to release it uncut and in its original language, something Weinstein is loathe to do with his Hong Kong properties to this day), not to mention Sátántangó and Ed Wood and Pom Poko and Exotica and The Shawshank Redemption and He's a Woman, She's a Man and Three Colors: Red and Drunken Master II and I Can't Sleep and Hoop Dreams and Clerks and Speed and In the Mouth of Madness and and and.

That Lee was able to make a $ 100 million dollar movie about these themes at 20th Century Fox was impressive enough, that he turns it into something of a Rorschach test for the audience (I felt that the film was suggesting that belief in God is a comforting fiction, religious friends took it as an affirmation of their faith) even more so.

Reportedly something of a cold fish, he has nevertheless made three of the warmest and most thrilling fiction films about animals of all time: the undisputed classic The Black Stallion, the messed - up but still remarkable Never Cry Wolf, and the exhilarating tear - jerker Fly Away Home.

Probably Singer's version was something like another Argo — a jaunty, stranger - than - fiction caper about oddball outsiders colluding with the government on a covert op.

Ken Loach will insist on behaving as if there really is something urgently wrong, and that we shouldn't or needn't get used to food banks as a fact of life; he portrays it all as something which we might actually do something about in the real world, as opposed to invoking injustice as an aesthetic gesture, or a flavour - ingredient of modern social realist fiction.

The development of a «taste» for literature — fiction and nonfiction alike — is hardly something we're good at teaching, Not to mention the dilemma about how to teach literacy of the new media that will constitute the bulk of the next generation's «reading.»

The first thing that comes to mind when talking about crap detection is sites like Snopes and FactCheck.org, which you use can use to quickly check if something is fact or fiction.

«These percentages... are pure fiction... if you want students to remember something, you have to get them to think about it.»

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

Recently, our author Sara Schaff's debut short fiction collection Say Something Nice About Me was included as a finalist for the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses Firecracker Awards.

Which is something that everyone talks about with fiction and nobody really understands until you actually find it.

My contracts were for non-fiction, which is a different animal to fiction — most non-fiction authors are writing for small niche markets, unless they are lucky enough to be either famous, or writing about something with huge appeal, like cookery or self - improvement, so potential sales figures are tiny in comparison to the fiction market.

It does not matter if you are a fiction or non fiction writer, thrill or adventure writer, using the right tools to get your name out there, information about your content, and future books, is something all authors should do.

And I've been working as a freelance editor specialising in Christian fiction for the last five years, which means I've seen a lot of manuscripts, good and bad, and have learned something about the craft of writing from each one.

Could you please tell us something about yourself and how you started your adventure as a writer of romantic fiction?

I think there is something timeless about the «coming of age» story that we see in so much young adult fiction and many, myself included, are drawn to that.

But I think it was a writing book by James Scott Bell that said something about historical to the point of the historical details can enhance the story, but it's still fiction, so make stuff up!

Yet even as he and his new comrades scramble to prepare for the alien onslaught, Zack can't help thinking of all the science - fiction books, TV shows, and movies he grew up reading and watching, and wonder: Doesn't something about this scenario seem a little too... familiar?

One of the things I love about reading and writing Flash fiction is that a story can turn or pirouette in one sentence from a standard narrative to something that floats off the page and impacts the r...

I am almost DONE with writing up guest posts and interviews for the blog tour craziness, which means my brain is about to be — GASP — clear for something resembling: whispers: fiction.

There's something weird about fiction.

Later in life I was always too busy to think of writing fiction - or if I did think about it, it was something I could always fall back on, something I could do if all else failed.

I always had the idea that a book (particularly a work of fiction) is something which is carefully crafted over a long period of time and ultimately has a an important statement to make about something.

In fiction, you learn about pacing and how to build tension — which is something you want in a really good nonfiction feature article as well.

See, this is something I love talking about, because historical fiction that shows off the research involved rather dismays me.

People I'd never met used my fiction as a way to psychoanalyze the author, going on about my tormented psyche, insisting I was obsessed with violence against women, as if they knew me, as if assuming something about me magically made it true.

It's the kind of book that sets up readers» expectations about a certain kind of «genre fiction,» and then completely upends those assumptions, resulting in something both unexpected and thoroughly satisfying.

But there's something especially enjoyable about a book that includes real - life historical figures — especially when those fictional portrayals feel authentic and exhaustively researched, as with historical fiction by Paula McLain and Nancy Horan.

As an avid reader myself, all those infinite possibilities for getting lost in «something else» is what I love most about books, and especially about romance fiction, which is so rich in variety and so strong in emotion.

There's something about the transport to a completely different land populated by otherworldly characters that gives fantasy its allure, and YA fans (of all ages) increasingly relate to the alternative worlds represented by the crop of engaging fiction published in recent years.

Whether writing about mutant monsters, rogue viruses, giant spaceships, or even murders and espionage, Putting the Science in Fiction will have something to help every writer craft better fFiction will have something to help every writer craft better fictionfiction.

I have wrote a few interview articles on a self - published author named Nicola Matthews and asked her what she thought about your advice to market something besides the book when it came to writing fiction.

Abby, our Fiction Editor, worked in publishing in New York before coming to BookPage, and she says Clegg's descent into drug addiction — and triumphant return to the publishing world — is something everyone in New York was talking about, long before the memoir was published.

Think of something that you can write a story about — either non-fiction, fiction, or a mixture of both!