Sentences with phrase «started by fiction»

There's a monthly writer's club in my area called the Liar's Club, probably because it was started by fiction writers.

Not exact matches

Best in Fiction: Among novels that released in 2014, my favorite included All the Light We Can not See by Anthony Doerr, Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and of course Lila by Marilynne Robinson (which I've only just started).

Even THEN it is still a work of fiction, edited by humans for readability as well as content (how many «lost books of the Bible» were left out on the whim of the «church» who was threatened by them?????????) Since this is likely boring folks I will not start on the Church (capital C, not lowercase C)!!!!!! My 2 cents is all — for what it is worth.

Tools such as Game Maker, Flixel, RPG Maker and Twine — a tool for making interactive fiction — now let budding developers start making games by dragging objects about in a graphical interface or simply by writing text.

Documentarist started paying attention to the expanding phenomena sooner by virtue of the flexibility of their craft and raising red flags, while the topic seeped into fiction filmmaking.

After this he will be starting work as producer and star on the science - fiction space drama Passengers, written by Jon Spaihts.

Eligibility: Filmmakers must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film; by the start date of the residency, filmmakers must have completed a first cut but still have significant time allotted in the schedule before picture lock.

Directors must be in picture edit on a fiction feature film and must have completed at least a first cut by the start date of the lab.

But somewhere around the 1990s, his fiction films started to get soft and fat, distended by cameos and travel - guide backdrops — the kind of stuff that had spun his best films, but now lacked a motor of ambition.

It merely entrenched the reputation of science fiction movies of being more visceral than cerebral - a reversal of trends that was started by Star Wars in 1977.

This website offers a complete chronological listing of every documentary produced by Fiction Factory since the start of the company in 2002, currently more than 220 titles.

According to the terms of the deal with Simon & Schuster, Locke — a 60 - year - old former businessman who says he became fascinated by the e-book revolution and decided to start self - publishing fiction in 2009 — will continue to publish and sell his e-books himself, under his own imprint (John Locke Books), but printed versions of those books will be marketed and sold by Simon & Schuster through its distribution arm.

The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers by John Gardner is a good book for authors just starting out to keep in the back pocket.

Content — My rave review of The Start - Up by Sadie Hayes, published by Backlit Fiction.

For the big picture, there are two classics that have already influenced numerous bestselling writers: Writing to the Point by Algis Budrys and Writing the Blockbuster Novel by Al Zuckerman; there's also Brewing Fine Fiction edited by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff & Pati Nagle, Jump Start Your Novel by Mark Teppo, 52 Ways to Get Unstuck edited by Chris Mandeville, and the unique and massive Synopsis Treasury edited by C.S. Haviland.

What inspired me to jump into fiction was a New York screenwriting competition started by Meryl Streep in 2015 to find women screenwriters over 40 years old.

My fiction books include a new themed collection of short stories each year, which starting with Quick Change, followed by Stocking Fillers, then Marry in Haste.

Start Writing Fiction is a free online course offered by The Open University.

Best thing I can tell you is to have fun looking at what everyone else is doing... especially YA fiction authors... and you'll start getting ideas... to do it YOUR way... but building social media numbers by simply following other people... can be easier for a fiction author than spending too much time writing blog articles just to try and build a following.

Louise writes: Back in the early Noughties before I started publishing crime thrillers with Mark, I had four contemporary women's fiction novels published by Transworld / Black Swan (chicklit, I suppose, although that has fluffy connotations, and I don't consider them at all fluffy).

Approved by my agent at the time, I signed a traditional contract a few years ago with publisher Aflame Books, whose backlist (of twenty literary fiction titles in their first English translations) was about to be supplemented by a new imprint for original - English - language fiction, starting with my novel The Imagination Thief as this imprint's launch title.

David Copperfield (with the original illustrations), quickly followed by Great Expectations, started my love affair with mid-Victorian fiction when I was eleven or twelve years old.

Immediate Fiction — Jerry Cleaver: Many self - publishing guides start off by saying, «Write a good book,» as if that was the easy part, and then everything that comes after.

He started writing Science Fiction Fantasy which was published by Tor.

I did my early words all by writing fiction, right from the start.

Started by fantasy writer Brandon Sanderson, webcomic creator Howard Taylor, SF writer Dan Wells, and fantasy writer Mary Robinette Kowal, they've since added SF writer Wesley Chu, romantic suspense writer Piper J. Drake, and fiction professor Mary Anne Mohanraj to the line up.

It's never sold in the quantities that genre fiction has, so by «catch up» I mean the readership will eventually start using e-readers more, will start hunting for and finding fresh books and authors.

When I started writing A Promise of Fire over five years ago now, there was a good chance this manuscript would end up like my other works of fiction: perhaps unfinished, never seen by anyone but me, definitely never presented to agents or editors and using up space on my hard drive in a folder with a misleading enough name that hopefully no one would ever open it and stumble upon my first (and sometimes hilarious) attempts at writing a novel.

See step - by - step documentation of how the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library is facilitating a collaborative fiction self - publishing experience from start to finish in our community.

Sure, once you're Stephen King or Nora Roberts and you've proven a hundred times over that you can write great fiction, you can get by with starting all kinds of new series and writing lots of stand - alone novels.

Another good starting place is the classic book, Self - Editing for Fiction Writers by Renni Brown and Dave King.

Starting today and until March 31, debut books published in 2014 by Canadian residents can be submitted in one of three categories: Non-Fiction, Literary Fiction, and Genre Fiction.

Linked in the Book Blog Discussion Challenge hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction and Shannon @ It Starts at Midnight!

For fiction authors you are looking to start by setting the scene of your story and ending your blurb description so it's intriguing and sparks curiosity in the potential buyer.

Welcome to the Third Layer of Publishing: How a Tiny Boston Start - Up, Amazon (and Authors) Are Plotting to Change the World of Serialized Fiction on Kindle Len Edgerly Interviews Yael Goldstein Love, Co-Founder and Editorial Director of Plympton By LEN EDGERLY Contributing Editor Welcome to the Third Layer of Publishing.

[pullquote] While serials and fan fiction are sometimes dismissed by industry insiders as low - quality work that won't much affect how traditional publishing operates, others have started to speculate that these markets might be in a position to do exactly that.

Links to novels, stories, poems, music, art, and other offerings placed online by folks celebrating IPSTP Day on April 23, 2007, which was started by a controversy within the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.

The story of 50 SHADES OF GREY also involves an author who was able to find her audience, in part by starting her work at a fan fiction site with 2 million users.

Started 14 years ago as a modest display of books by independent publishers, the Non / Fiction fair has grown into a sophisticated event that includes book premieres, author readings, professional debates and the digital publishing conference, Knigabyte.

He starts by saying that «sales of ebooks for fiction more often than not top 50 % of the total sales,» and then says of total book sales that «only about 35 % of it is selling as print in stores (because 25 - 30 percent of the print sale is online).»

An awful lot could be done to help short fiction, starting with coming up with an effective way to let authors sell individual stories, possibly by the word.

The third book in the historical fiction series by Ken Follet started with the bestselling The Pillars of the Earth.

Susan and I started Glimmer Train because we wanted to read the great short fiction being written by emerging voices, and to publish the very best in a handsome print publication that would endure.

Reading vs everything else, a cycle of a book hangover, can someone borrow my book, or should I start a new book are just a few examples from an outstanding collection of bookish charts created by the platform for young adult fiction fans, Epic Reads.

- after the remakes of Terry's Wonderland 3D and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, Yuji Horii asked the team what should be next - the choices were Caravan Heart (GBA), a professional version of Dragon Quest Monsters 2, or a brand new game - the staff made the plot together with Takeshi Uchikawa (who is currently directing Dragon Quest XI)- the suggestion was to make the theme become something catchy, which lead to a science fiction vibe - Horii said «anything's alright as long as it's interesting» - the creation of the Dragon Quest Monsters: Super Light helped build Joker 3 - fan feedback from the mobile game was used, which lead to monster stats being seen - the Reactor device lets you easily see all the things that occur on the field - the team had some trouble bringing together the ridable monsters aspect of the game, but eventually worked it out - the full game starts off with monsters that players can ride on land - you'll eventually unlock sea, air, and multi-jump land rising monsters - a «Big Air ride» was teased as well - by clearing the story, features will be unlocked that further modify monsters such as abilities and changing their sizes - Stealth Boxes which can not be found without using the Reactor only contains useful items that are optional - compulsory items that are needed to be found with the Reactor are placed in non-stealth locations - accessories can strengthen monsters, but monster strength is mainly determined from raising and combining them - features more offense - related content in the form of new spells and skills - new water - type spells are included - new skills added enable more detailed adjustments in versus, adding more strategic features - one of the items that can be bought with Communication Coins has the same effect with «Key of Encounters» - this lets players recruit monsters a bit more easily they've befriended before - since Communication Coins can only be obtained from multiplayer battles, it's completely optional - people who still do StreetPass but don't want to do multiplayer battles can still get them by combining monsters - DLC monsters are planned to be added regularly post-release until around Golden Week (April 29 — May 5)- - A national tournament is also planned, with more details coming later - carryover feature from Dragon Quest Monsters 2 that comes into play after the ending - players can bring up to 10 monsters which are ranked A or below from DQM2 to DQMJ3 each day

That's just the start of Headlander, Adult Swim Games and Double Fine Productions» side - scrolling action - adventure game heavily inspired by science fiction films of the 1970s.

Written by the successful author Koki Yoshimune, the visual novel started as a high school romance game but later evolved into an epic science fiction based saga with an alternate world, giant aliens, mecha robots featuring a complex cast of characters.

And I realized I had to do something 1983 Rammelzee vs K Rob «Beat Bop» 1984 First shows at Clarissa Dalrymple and Nicole Klagsbrun's Cable Gallery (artists of Wool's generation who begin showing same period include Philip Taaffe Jeff Koons Mike Kelley Cady Noland and James Nares 1984 produces first book photocopied edition of four: 93 Drawings of Beer on the Wall 1984 Warhol Rorschach paintings 1986 First pattern paintings 1987 Joins Luhring Augustine Gallery 1987 First word paintings 1988 Collaborative installation with Robert Gober one painting by Wool (Apocalypse Now) one sculpture by Gober (Three Urinals) one collaborative photograph (Untitled) and a mirror Gary Indiana contributes a short piece of fiction to the accompanying publication 1988 In Cologne sees show of Albert Oehlen's work meets Martin Kippenberger 1988 First European shows Cologne and Athens 1988 Collaborates with Richard Prince on two paintings: My Name and My Act 1989 Museum Group shows in Amsterdam Frankfurt am Main and Munich Whitney Biennial 1989 One year fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 1989 Starts taking photographs 1989 Publishes Black Book an oversized collection of 9 - letter images 1989 Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 Meets Larry Clark 1991 First survey mounted at Boymans - Van Beuningen Museum Rotterdam publishes accompanying artist's book Cats in Bag Bags in River color photocopies of photographs of black and white paintings 1991 Creates edition of small paintings for ACT - UP New York Needle Exchange 1991 Participates in Carnegie International includes painting and billboard with truncated text announcing «THE SHOW IS OVER» 1991 Meets Jim Lewis 1991 Relocates studio to East 9th Street in New York 1992 LA riots 1992 DAAD residency in Berlin 1993 Publishes Absent Without Leave 160 black - and - white images from travel photographs taken over previous 4 years 1993 Begins silkscreened flower paintings 1993 Meets Michel Majerus 1994 Makes road - signs for Martin Kippenberger's Museum of Modern Art Syros 1994 New York Knicks lose to Houston Rockets in Game 7 NBA Finals 1995 Organizes retrospective of the New Cinema late 70's New York underground Super-8 films 1995 First spray - paintings 1995 Kids 1996 East Village studio severely damaged in building fire leaving Wool without a working space for 8 months artist's insurance photos become portfolio Incident on 9th Street 1997 Marries painter Charline von Heyl 1998 Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles mounts mid-career retrospective travels to Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh and Kunsthalle Basel 1998 Begins silkscreen re-imaging of own work 2001 Solo exhibition at Secession Vienna 2002 «Grey» paintings 2003 East Broadway Breakdown photos of New York City 2005 First digital drawings 2006 Contributes art to Sonic Youth Rather Ripped 2007 Collaborates with Josh Smith on Can Your Monkey Do the Dog 2008 Collaborates with Richard Hell on Psychopts 2008 Christopher Wool lives and works in New York and Marfa Texas

Organized by joségarcia, mx and Attilia Fattori Franchini, it takes gossip and fan fiction as a starting point, reconstituting these stories into a physical context of immersive environments.

So as far as I can tell the main point and the start of a con is by trying to tap at and effect or affect (alter) the imagination by turn it in to a fiction with no much awareness by the victim..........