Sentences with phrase «spent years writing»

Hence my first series, which I spent years writing and polishing and cleaning, was never going to sell.

So if you want to write a children's book, after you've spent years writing genre fiction or non-fiction, that's fine.

But several authors we know — who spent years writing — tirelessly edit and revise their work to ensure its high quality.

As a guy who spent years writing for car - consumer pubs, I always liked the old A6's value - for - money equation.

I'm a classroom teacher who loves teaching and has spent years writing books and developing a huge online collection of lessons and printables.

Imagine you've spent years writing a screenplay, crammed with all sorts of thought - provoking ideas and genuine surprises.

I spent years writing this information.

We spent years writing it and many months getting it laid out to perfection.

Sarah Garland, a journalist who spent years writing about MS - 13 on Long Island, says this focus to provide aid to students rather than to go on an all - out offensive against MS - 13 might work better to end gang violence in Suffolk.

Senator Chuck Schumer spent a year writing his book, and used Al Gore as a consultant.

After spending years writing about pets for newspapers and magazines, she decided to create a storytelling platform of her own.

And while Aronofsky typically spends years writing his films before putting them into production, this time the Oscar - nominated director decided to move things along a little faster.

Why spend years writing pitches and tweaking pitches and making more and more revisions and edits based on so many other peoples» opinions (ever heard the phrase, too many hands in the pot?)?

I told her that's especially important for authors — who spend years writing books that people won't read instead of thinking in terms of genres that sell.

But looking at this from a logical stand point... you spend a year writing a book.

«I am a new author and after spending years writing my first book I was finally able to self publish it online.

After spending a year writing the book, poring over every sentence, pondering the implication of every turn of phrase, I was amazed to discover a new rhythm and new levels of meaning in my own work.

Many authors spend years writing their book, but then only a few days making sure that files are print ready.

Because I've a certain reputation, I can ask for a # 25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and # 25,000 is a loan against sales and you can easily spend five years earning out.

In the acknowledgement, McChesney alludes to his writing process: he put everything aside and spent a year writing this book.

After spending years writing manuals for the human resources department at work, she finally decided to write a guide for something she loved to do in her spare time: writing.

Too many authors work their rears off crafting a hundred thousand words, editing, formatting, polishing, learning the craft, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, developing a website, writing sequels, supporting other authors, working 40 hours a week to pay for the luxury of writing part - time, and supporting families while spending years writing their books... to sell a few hundred books all together.

Game writers start off exactly the same as Youtubers: people who love games that probably spend years writing about their hobby for free, struggling to make any money and simply doing it for the love.

This is why she spent a year writing and editing Unsubscribe so that we can be better at using email as a communication tool instead of a task manager.

After spending years writing about pets for newspapers and magazines, she decided to create a storytelling platform of her own.

Spent that year writing JAVA code for printing the INS forms, replacing the Pro * C code.

After spending years writing about pets for newspapers and magazines, she decided to create a storytelling platform of her own.

Not exact matches

It's now holding on to 60,000 finished lots and «should be able to comfortably meet forecasted deliveries in the next two years without materially increasing land spend,» wrote Wetenhall.

The former secretary of state wrote that in Pennsylvania, her team had 120 more staffers on the ground than President Barack Obama did four years earlier and spent 211 % more on TV ads.

According to RBC Capital Markets, OPEC's producers need oil even higher — at an average of $ 88 a barrel — to balance their public spending this year, Bloomberg Gadfly's Liam Denning writes.

«When we launched our science initiative last year, I spoke about how we need to change that our government spends 50x more treating people who are sick than finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place,» he wrote.

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

After getting inspired by Ron Chernow's biography of the first Treasury Secretary, Miranda spent six years of his life writing «Hamilton,» according to Fortune.

In a preface to the report, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D - Minn., writes, «Each year, Congress spends about $ 200 billion to help house American families.

To write «Command and Control,» Schlosser spent more than six years steeped in declassified government materials and interviewed military experts, scientists, and «broken arrow» eyewitnesses.

He also spends years researching, writing and rewriting each book.

Sterling spent the next year creating the toy, studying gender differences and cognitive development in children, writing a business plan and doing in - home testing with a prototype with more than 100 boys and girls in three schools and more than 40 homes.

There are great IT systems that have been written over the past five years that are light - years ahead of what we had, and we can lease that for a fraction of what we spent.

One of the reasons I wrote this book is, I spent 21 years coaching one of the most brilliant guys in the world who never loses money.

Not until after I took a major risk in my career of quitting my job as a banker and spending two years researching and writing my second book did my mentor take me under his wing and open up for me a valuable stream of knowledge, people and opportunities that have inspired my journey ever since.

I spent the first 13 years of my professional life doing what was more akin to art than to business: commissioning, writing, directing, producing radio, television, films, and music.

While that's just a fraction of the $ 1 trillion in net premiums the U.S. insurance industry wrote in 2013, experts forecast that spending on cyber insurance will grow exponentially in the years ahead.

«Local, mobile advertising spend in the U.S. is expected to skyrocket over the next few years, making Google's vast index of local businesses and search extremely valuable to Waze, and to an extent, vice versa,» Empson writes.

LaRae, who spent 23 years as a counterintelligence agent for the FBI, now spends her time writing, speaking, and teaching others tips that she learned while working for the Bureau.

Around 5,000 years ago, humans made the transition «from the anarchy of the hunting, gathering, and horticultural societies in which our species spent most of its evolutionary history to the first agricultural civilizations with cities and governments,» Pinker wrote.

The founders of Public Supply, a Brooklyn - based maker of office and writing supplies, spent more than two years hashing out what their company valued and how to express it.

«Right now they clearly have a loyal user base in the younger population, but the over 30 year old demographic is one of the most attractive segments for advertisers because of their spending power,» Eric Kim, managing partner at venture capital firm Goodwater Capital, wrote in a report.

She spent five years at Reuters as an online news editor, writing about personal finance and small businesses for Reuters.com.

After spending 13 years working in Equities / Investment Banking and getting my MBA, it's been very easy to write about investing in the public markets.

I spent the earlier years of my career as an analyst and software developer, writing business process automation software at a Fortune 500 supply chain company, Expeditors International and working for my family's wealth management and financial consulting business.