Sentences with phrase «stabs at writing»

In other words, those messy first stabs at writing that gradually improve with practice are building neurological foundations that make learning easier and more enduring.

The Post's favorite intern, Chris Cillizza, has written another puff piece instead of taking a stab at writing about real issues!

So take a stab at writing a research plan, even if you don't expect to be on the job market for a while.

The icing on the cake is Martin McDonagh, the acclaimed Irish playwright who took a winning stab at writing and directing for the screen in 2008's In Bruges.

David Duchovny takes another stab at writing / directing an «X-Files» episode where his signature sense of humor fits better with the self - reflexive story.

The rumor was that Schrader also took a stab at writing Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but in his version, the aliens never showed up — an unrealized exercise in existentialism trumping special effects.

Earlier this decade, Wilson made a move that's not uncommon for actors by taking a stab at writing and directing.

Let me revisit the emails / comments you responded with & hopefully make a stab at a write - up of the best reader recommendation.

If you're applying for a job at the entry level, you may be taking your first stab at writing a resume, which is always exciting.

Kev's taking a stab at writing the theme song for our pilot episode this week.

Not exact matches

Jerry Hagstrom, who writes the daily Hagstrom Report, took a stab at explaining why SNA shifted position:

Now he is willing to stab the United Kingdom in the back to become prime minister and put our country's security at risk,» he writes.

As the repeater narrowed down the options, Scholz took a stab at guessing the source: «Extragalactic magnetar» he wrote in his initial email, referring to a young neutron star with an extremely powerful magnetic field.

After extensively researching and writing about our solar neighborhood, I feel I'm fairly qualified to take a stab at ranking these bad boys once and for all.

I'm going to take a stab at this whole writing about motherhood thing but before we begin let me start this post off by saying two things.

The other three productions, Baby Boom, Father of the Bride and its sequel, were directed by Meyers» husband and longtime collaborator, Charles Shyer, but this is Meyers first stab at fully writing and directing her own work.

Umpteen years after The Weinstein's passed on Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer's proposal for a «Halloween 3D» (which, I believe, was to be somewhat connected to Rob Zombie's two movies — complete with Scout Taylor - Compton back in the role of Laurie Strode), the studio's hired another writing unit to take a stab at resurrecting Michael Myers.

Forties Fords — The product range Ford Motor Co. introduced just before the USA entered World war II was to stand the company in good stead for their post-war revival writes Brooks Brierly / Driven From Behind, Part Four — Karl Ludvigsen continues his review of rear engined air cooled developments in Britain with Roy Fedden's attempts to make such a car after the war and the Kendall and Hartnett projects / Mystery MGs MG authority — Malcolm Green has a stab at identifying the car in a photograph sent in by a reader.

How long have you been writing, was this your first stab at it, etc..

Hopefully, the worst thing to come from this data collection would be a stab at the artistry of writing, where publishers only take on projects that meet the guidelines of the latest reports on digital reading or where authors feel pressured to adapt their plots lines and characters to the latest figures on what readers want.

A 1994 fellowship to Antarctica prompted the author to take a stab at a lifelong goal of writing a novel by producing the World War II bio-terrorism thriller Ice Reich (1998).

After reading a few articles about writing short fiction and after taking a few stabs at Chuck Wendig's Flash Fiction challenge, I licked it.

If you have an overinflated ego, believe your writing originates from the hands of the Great Cosmic Muffin, or are just plain ill - tempered, please state this at the top of your query, and I will allow you to stab about like a blind man trying to fork a pea.

If you have an overinflated ego, believe your writing originates from the hands of the Great Cosmic Muffin, or you're just a donkey's rear end, please state this at the top of your query, and I will refrain from helping you and let you stab about like a blind man trying to fork a pea.

In one of his dioramalike installations last year at New York's Luxembourg & Dayan gallery, which was based on a novel he'd written, a naked male doll lay on a bed, stabbed with a hook; his show at the Ramekin Crucible gallery on the Lower East Side a few months earlier had included live, baby tigers in cages.

We've also already written extensively about Passbook, Apple's first stab at a digital wallet.

If you really can't handle resume writing, let my team take a stab at it for you.

«And Kiviat wasn't the only writer to take a stab at the MID: John Tamny, writing for Forbes.com, said in November 2010,» [W] hy should those of us who choose not to own houses subsidize those who do?

In recent years, I've also taken stabs at TV script - writing (even did a bloody course) and movie script writing.