Sentences with phrase «take over your fiction»

Also: don't let your blog take over your fiction writing time.

-LSB-...] And don't let your blog take over your fiction writing time.

Not exact matches

This year, though, Brin kicked off the Founders Letter with a quote taken from the very beginning of «A Tale of Two Cities,» a book written over 150 years ago by Charles Dickens — a historical fiction about the French Revolution.

In a wonderfully concise passage in his 1940 preface to Adolfo Bioy Casares's The Invention of Morel, Jorge Luis Borges — taking issue with Ortega y Gasset's elevation of «psychological» fiction over the «fantastic» — offers a devastating critique of the pretensions of a great deal of modern «psychological realism»:

Taking Doctor Who as an example, enthusiasm leads to exploration: fans discover the back catalogue, they take ownership of their passion, they engage in cosplay, argue over what is «cannon», and eventually write their own fan fiction.

That runaway growth has given rise to fears that science is taking over (just watch any Hollywood science - fiction potboiler to see how deep - seated those feelings are).

IN just watching it, it's clear that a large chunk of it is fiction since much of what takes place is what we see in movies over and over again.

In his one - of - a-kind fiction / documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making.

Unlike Michael Apted's documentary Up series, Boyhood is fiction, its scenario written in advance of the entire shooting, which took place over a three - or four - day period once a year for 12 years beginning in 2002.

Though a more rigorous investigation would not necessarily have improved the film (the trampling roughshod over the thin scrim between documentary and fiction is too irritating when undertaken with what seems a cavalier disregard for both), it might have taken some of the weight off its broken, load - bearing metaphor leg, and maybe not left room for an essentially stupid, interminable, out - of - place dream sequence in the process.

But now that Jack's been fired, who will take over as fiction editor?

As is so often the case with notable screenwriters, Garland has further taken his destiny into his own hands, taking over the director's chair for the first time with Ex Machina, another in a line of high concept science fiction.

This is the lasting appeal of Jack Finney's novel, «The Body Snatchers» and why its concept has inspired countless science fiction movies throughout the years - from three versions of the novel itself (in 1956, 1978 and 1994 as Body Snatchers by director Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant fame) to Heinlein's The Puppet Masters (finally in 1994) and the 1980s remake of The Thing - all of them dealing with people being surreptitiously taken over by alien presences.

Cultural critics were busying themselves with lily - livered debates over the moral quandaries of Violence as Stylish Accessory in the wake of Pulp Fiction, fretting that good American audiences couldn't take a little gun - brandishing.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

... 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).

Unable to separate truth from fiction, public outrage is growing over actions governments around the world are being falsely accused of taking in the global war on terror.Still struggling with trauma from her previous mission, Kate Adams is pressed back into CIA service to infiltrate a radical anti-government group that may have ties to The Executive.

We lay out how Fan - Fiction is taking over the world and some of the more interesting moves coming out of Amazon.

With the largest response to date, the eighth annual What Kids Are Reading report includes results from over 12 million comprehension quizzes on fiction and non-fiction titles taken by British school children in the last academic year.

Even before the ebook revolution, long - form series had generally taken over the Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction genre.

The Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction is now accepting entries of classic novels published in 2015 over 50,000 words in length that take place in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia..

«eBooks are coexisting with print books, as opposed to taking over... digital sales of fiction and non fiction appear to be slowing as readers increasingly want to consume books in a variety of ways.»

The list of over 350 free classic science fiction novels and stories took quite a bit of research to put together.

Harlequin is one publisher who I see is really taking advantage of the digital opportunities with its epublished only fiction, it's decision to digitize its entire front list of over 120 titles every month while digitizing its backlist at the same time, by offering all series books a month in advance, by pushing its content onto devices through partnerships with Daily Lit, providing its content for cellphone users.

One lesson I have taken over and again is that those who see the greatest success with fiction books are those who create their books in a series.

Here's where you can find my most recent flash fiction, and mad luv to the fab folks over at Out of the Gutter who took it!

I have worked hard over the last six years writing fiction, but I want to take stock of where I am, what I learned and share this with fellow indie authors.

by Anne R. Allen Update: I'm so pleased this post has had thousands of hits over the last year and is energizing so many writers to take up short fiction.

Much shorter and quicker to go over than the initial report, this edition takes into account information interpreted from approximately 11,000 titles in genre fiction; 900 in literary fiction; 30,000 in non-fiction; and some 10,000 in children's (not YA) fiction.

The second stage activity conducted a change of tone when literary fiction awardees took over the venue.

Update: I'm so pleased this post has had thousands of hits over the last year and is energizing so many writers to take up short fiction.

There's some extremely disturbing news out of San Diego Comic Con, a stabbing took place in Hall H over prime placing in a queue for Universal Pictures» panel to present two upcoming films — the science fiction adventure Paul and Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens.

Since the launch of Call of Duty: Black Ops II, millions of fans have taken - on the game's ambitious near - future fiction, engaged in over 427 million hours of near - future warfare in non-stop multiplayer action, and survived hordes of Zombies.

As the game takes place over the course of a single evening in a single location, the individual missions often intertwine, Pulp Fiction style.

Brisbane's Anime FGC is taking over GUF Brisbane with Guilty Gear Xrd Rev2, Blazblue Central Fiction and more this Sunday from 10 am.

Were you writing fiction at the same time and did that take over making art?

What Greek Gotham does is then expose the myth to the penetrating Cycladic light, let hedonism and the aesthetic take over, dissolve geography; what remains is the addictive desire for a place we know doesn't exist, a fiction that hinges on the real world but is for ever beyond its reach.

As former cover artist Eric Yahnker prepares for his new solo show, Alternative Fiction, at Art Brussels with The Hole NYC on April 20th, we take a look through all the work he has created over the l

The sculpture's title refers to a short story by American horror fiction author Stephen King about a forsaken farm town taken over by a cult.

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 TOVER» 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 Tover 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

Next February, the arts group Public Fiction will take over the space for a series of interactive projects.

Indeed, as curator Simon Morrisey explains in the following conversation, the exhibition was, in many ways, a collaborative exercise in extrapolation and reframing: ideas are drawn out of artists» works and discussed with other artists; information and data woven between art pieces to change the way in which we would expect them to be interpreted; insights are taken from history or speculative fiction and imposed over works to achieve the same end; and eventually, artworks are installed together to create a composite tableau.

Are we to believe that NASA suddenly reversed its 40 year history and decided to take fiction over fact for absolutely no reason?

The position we took from the beginning is the evidence will triumph over the fiction.»

Alex Garland's heady, dreamlike science fiction movie Annihilation opened over the weekend to a modest $ 11 million box office take that looks paltry compared to Black Panther's stunning numbers, but it's still about what distributor Paramount Pictures projected.

Many science fiction writers have speculated about a world of the future taken over by machines.

They may seem like science fiction, but as you can already tell, they are starting to take over a number of industries by storm, including real estate.