Sentences with phrase «started reading fiction»

Joanna: I wonder then, because I discovered you and Dean through your nonfiction blogs and your nonfiction books, and then subsequently, I started reading your fiction.

When I started reading fiction years ago, I didn't do so because I was seeking anything, except, perhaps, the thrill of saying I'd finished The Brothers Karamazov.

Not exact matches

My kid, an avid reader, can not keep up with the kid whose mother fudges the reading log or checks out half of the Juvenile Fiction section on the day the program starts just to sabotage everyone.

Reading fiction helps ease the anxieties children commonly experience facing important events in their lives, whether it's starting school, going on a first date, or approaching school tests.

I read my way from start to finish over and over again, especially on holiday - the definitive detective fiction.

Rather than obsessively checking my e-mail or keeping up with journal articles, I laid around and read bad fiction, hung out with my family, caught up with friends from high school, and marveled at how much everything had changed since I started graduate school.

I should probably be reading this, but instead I just finished The White Princess (I love historical fiction) and will start on my yearly Harry Potter re-read soon

What starts out as an interesting post-apocalyptic thriller quickly reveals itself to be a teenage science fiction... Read More

See this article to start with, «Reading Literary Fiction Improves Empathy, Study Finds,» or this research study.

To stem teens» declining interest in reading, start book clubs, build a class library, and compare contemporary fiction with classics.

Some ideas to make reading appealing to adolescents include pairing classic literature with similarly themed young adult fiction; building a classroom library that addresses the curriculum and the needs of students; providing time for sustained silent reading; start book clubs; and using Venn diagrams, dinner party, and readers» theater techniques to explore issues in literature.

Our librarian has secured a grant that results in an infusion of recent fiction books, and a quarter of my students start reading more in their free time.

But after reading about the changes to Amazon Kindle Worlds, authors were talking about another new start up company that has found a niche in serialized fiction.

I used to read fiction in my Farsi language... this book was my first English book that I had to read just for school... I started forcefully but I really enjoyed reading it....

Joe, when I started writing fiction, I thought I knew something because I had read hundreds of novels.

Maybe soon all this book gaming will start to piss readers off when there's hardly any good books to read any more, then they'll go looking for writers who stuck with it and write good fiction, rather than just pumping out crap and then gaming the system.

Listening as readers shared answers to authors» questions in the reverse panel — from humorous confessions of starting with the last page first to heartfelt tributes about why they read Christian fiction.

... four women in the 1960s who start reading provocative fiction and form a secret club that changes their livesn — and in the present, they recruit four young women to take over the book club, as the provocative material unearths their buried desires and wreaks havoc on their otherwise ideal lives (via Publishers Marketplace Deals).

I'd just started to read Christian fiction and wondered, «How could this be written from a biblical perspective?»

Nonfiction is unique, in that readers may jump between chapters, which differentiates it from fiction, where the author wants the reader to read from start to finish.

Rereading favourites books continued into my grown - up years, especially once I started reading Christian fiction.

Right from the start, I was reading through the fiction prompts and I wanted to work on the ideas I saw presented.

And even more exciting is that she'll be teaching a separate pre-conference master class starting June 8 to help fiction authors conquer a topic that strikes fear and dread into the heart of many a writer: Read more about This year's pre-conference advanced class: Master the Art of Querying with Agent Kristin Nelson -LSB-...]

Theakston Old Peculier Crime Festival The world class, award winning Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival, now in its 15th year, celebrates the very best in crime fiction at... Starts: 2018-07-19 [Read More]

Kachemak Bay Writers» Conference Held in Homer, Alaska, this nationally recognized writing conference features workshops, readings and panel presentations in fiction, poetry, non... Starts: 2018-06-08 [Read More]

Before starting my year of reading independently published books (the experiment was a failure but the ethos a success) my experience of translated fiction was very limited.

I always advise people who want to write a fantasy or science fiction or romance to stop reading everything in those genres and start reading everything else from Bunyan to Byatt.

I'm starting to think that eBooks will eventually fade away mostly and that it'll become more something of fan fiction or erotica, things people can't easily find in print or are too bashful to read in public as a print book.

So I read some books on writing and started writing fan fiction.

And if you want to get the other side of the tale, let me recommend reading Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction series that starts with The Last Kingdom.

Anyone starting out as a fiction writer should read it.

I have a bit of trouble reading fictional biography, because I don't like having to wonder where truth leaves off and fiction starts.

One book I read then that impressed me above and beyond most of what I'd ever read — and it may have been partially responsible for my starting to write fiction — was Daniel Deronda.

Charli's prompt for this week's Flash Fiction challenge of «Juxtaposition «(see full explanation below) had me thinking, because it seems that a few of you would like me to carry on with Muriel's story, which actually started out as Ken's... Continue reading →

And, yes, I started another science fiction book I picked up during Read an eBook week.

Gardner told me that a lot of the people who start out reading fan fiction become motivated to write fan fiction.

I next started and finished yesterday one of the books I told you about during Read an eBook Week, Paul Dayton's We've Seen the Enemy, which is another science fiction book; I thought it was very good and rated it a 5 out of 5 stars.

I next started and finished yesterday one of the books I told you about during Read an eBook Week, Paul Dayton's We've Seen the Enemy, which is another science fiction book; I thought it was very good.

Before you start writing, read some Kindle fiction.

For the final installment on critiques (see Writing Critique Groups for ideas of finding or starting a critique group and Guidelines for Writing Critiques for setting up a group code of conduct) following is The Ultimate Fiction Critique Checklist, plus suggestions for helping you shape your critique to be of maximum benefit for the writer... [Read more...]

Not only is Twilight a successful book, but that the phenomenon that's Fifty Shades of Grey (another book I really, really don't want to read), started out as fan fiction for Twilight.

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.

It had a lot of good reviews, I like science - fiction, and most importantly, of course, once I started reading it was clear how good it was.

When KU2.0 rolled around, and we started getting paid based on pages reads, people who'd been making thousands of dollars a month on short fiction were suddenly making hundreds, if that.

Even though that pen name is fairly neglected these days, you can go back to 2014 and read the posts I wrote at the time when I launched it, where I anonymously started a new name to write science fiction romance: reporting in after one month and reporting in after 10 weeks.

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.

This is not too surprising, since the growth of e-books is most likely to impact sales of mass - market paperbacks, as MMPs are the least expensive print offering, their release is delayed after hardcovers (as some publishers do with e-books), and most closely filled the role that e-books are starting to fill for people: day - to - day fiction reading, as opposed to hardcover cookbooks, graphic books, or bookshelf display items.

Readers want well written and well edited novels without typos, there's no need for a table of contents or fancy navigation since fiction reads from start to finish.

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.

If you love reading, stories, or just want to start making games and you aren't quite ready to take on making art and programming - then interactive fiction might be for you!