Sentences with phrase «than a writer working»

Indie publishers spend far less time getting their story into readers hands than a writer working the traditional system.

And a publishing company with longstanding media and marketing relationships is far more capable of getting attention for a new book than a writer working alone.»

Not exact matches

Writer James Clear suggests starting small, choosing one thing to improve incrementally every day, and committing to not pushing off things that take less than two minutes to do, such as washing the dishes after a meal or eating a piece of fruit to work toward the goal of eating healthier.

Don't be too quick to commit, but if you're happy with the work being delivered, then it will be better to work with those who can supply consistent and predictable results than to try to find new writers to fit a mold.

As for teaching growth mindsets, writer Angie Aker summarized Dweck's work and put it like this on Upworthy: «Praise your child explicitly for how capable they are of learning rather than telling them how smart they are.»

Before becoming one of the world's best - known comic strip writers and authors, Scott Adams spent more than a decade in the corporate world, moving into management after being held at gunpoint twice while working as a teller.

This book is far different than the ones preceding it — Lamott delves into the life of the writer, including the trials and pitfalls one must face on the path to finding his or her voice, getting published, or simply sitting down to do the work.

Much as it is possible for someone to get rewarded for performing a work — as opposed to writing it, which involves copyright — publishers would get to command fees for the stuff their writers write, based their own (new) rights rather than the copyright held by the journalist.

NerdWallet's team of more than 80 writers and editors includes seasoned journalists who have worked at major national news outlets.

In 2015, the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis commissioned actor - writer Dael Orlandersmith — a warm - hearted and gregarious performer whose work I've been watching since her appearance here on «Milly's Orchid Show» more than 20 years ago — to work on...

The writer is a an executive who retired unexpectedly at 52 after things didn't work out at his job and he realized that he already has enough to retire, even though what he had was far less than his original retirement goal.

If you have a talent for the written word, what better way to work from the comfort in your own home and have extremely flexible hours than to become a freelance writer.

For readers and potential writers, here are some of the qualities we tend to look for in selecting verse: First, some indication that the poet has read more deeply than R. S. Gwynn's Narcissus in The Narcissiad, who «knows his poets, too, for he has read / The works of many, three of whom are dead.»

• Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl: The greatest work of modern Iranian literature, by a writer whose devotion to Poe inspired at least one work far greater than anything of which Poe was capable.

Of course, there are interesting differences between these theologians, just as there were between Bonaventura and Calvin; and in some writers now, as of old, the logical implications are more adequately and rigorously worked out than in others.

The general position of these writers, whose contributions vary considerably in approach and quality, is that Jesus made no claim of divinity for himself and that the doctrine of the incarnation was developed during the early centuries of the Christian era as an attempt to express the uniqueness of Jesus in the mythological language and thought forms of the Greek culture of the time.While recognizing the validity of the patristic theologians» work, which culminated in the classical christological definitions of Nicea and Chalcedon, the British theologians question whether these definitions are intelligible in the 20th century, and go on to suggest that some concept other than incarnation might better express the divine significance of Jesus today.

Perhaps the best argument against a super-intelligent agent creating the universe is that moderately - intelligent science fiction writers often dream up universes that are way cooler and often even «work» better than the reality we all experience.

You guys have reminded me that we have more power than we think, that writers in this industry need not accept the status quo, especially when their readers really care about their work.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

Edward Anhalt, the distinguished screen, writer, who accepted: the award for Becket at that luncheon, commented that he was then working on the script for BoeingBoeing, a sex farce considerably less «religious» than Becket, a fact that created minor uneasiness among the pious present.

To be sure, working for a mainstream outlet comes with many constraints: You'll probably be a reporter or editor rather than a columnist or editorial writer, meaning that you will not have complete independence in what topics you cover.

Some scholars believe the more hopeful passages to have been later additions, rather than the work of the original writer, and that the book's acceptance in the canon was largely due to these passages, more expressive of religious faith.

Its evident that those statistics are rubbish or better yet what the writer is saying the statistics imply, does a man who walks about his work place means he is doing more work than one sitting.

But I will turn down every new football assignment that comes up — which, much to my chagrin as a freelance writer who is almost always in search of work, happens more than once.

While it's true that writers are generally the sort of weirdos who prefer to spend their work day alone staring at a wall, writing is far more communal than it appears.

It is so rewarding to have created more than 500 beautiful books which will make a difference in children's lives, and to work with such a talented group of writers, artists, musicians, editors and designers.

«I think it is important for us as arts writers to train members to understand the era we are in a how to do our work better than we have done over the years,» he stated.

Close relationships with reporters are valuable, but less so than before the shakeup — layoffs, downsizing, reorganizing means many of the writers we counted on to get our stories out are no longer working our beat — or working in journalism at all.

The writers of The Thick of It, since they have at least worked out what not to say and therefore probably have a better chance than most at working out what ought to be said.

Before he joined the Q poll, as it's widely known, Carroll worked for more than 40 years as a political writer for The New York Times and other New York and New Jersey newspapers.

Renowned Writers More than 150 Nobel laureates have written for Scientific American, most of whom wrote about their prize - winning works years before being recognized by the Nobel Committee.

«Using multiple tools for measuring reading ease, we found that IPCC reports are designed for grownups, but they are not harder to read than other science documents, including those written for the public by professional writers,» said co-author Chris Field, who served as the co-chair of the second IPCC Working Group.

This is partly because the science shows on television keep changing, but it is also a fact that work in the field has, until lately, been spotty and lackadaisical, undertaken more often by desperate science writers for an afternoon than by a dedicated specialist for an entire year.

Less than 1 percent were out of work entirely, she said, many having gone into industry jobs or work outside the lab as writers, editors or in public relations.

Medical writers get paid more than many other writers because their skills are more specialized and much of the work is supported by the pharmaceutical industry.

Cassandra Brooks, M.S., Contributing Writer Ms. Cassandra Brooks (Native American, Abenaki) has worked in marine science and public outreach for more than a decade.

The brand's story began more than 15 years ago, when the founder, Miranda, a freelance writer and traveler, made friends with people working in the wedding industry who shared her interests for art and beauty.

A public relations director by day, Maris is also a brand spokesperson, freelance writer and media relations expert with more than 10 years experience working with consumer brands.

Forbes writer Paul Brown claims to have «never met an entrepreneur who has achieved a work - life balance» and indeed, entrepreneurs» professional lives are more time - consuming than most.

Winfield PA USA About Blog John Kador is an independent business writer whose best - selling books and insightful articles have been helping business leaders work smarter and more profitably for more than three decades.

Prior to that, Halperin had her hand at Hollywood for more than 30 years, where she worked as an agent, film distributor, and on many television shows as a writer, director, and producer.

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I don't know who's to blame: exec prods, directors, writers, etc but more than one of them worked hard to mess up a good thing.

One of many reasons that «Vengeance» works, and something that other action movie producers could look at, is that McTiernan and writer Jonathan Hensleigh never betray how seriously they take their larger - than - life narrative.

To the present writer, Arkadin is clearly the better film, but The Stranger is nonetheless, at the very least, a fascinating curio, and if it's a minor film (if...), then it's the sort of minor film that only a really major talent could make, and an excellent example of what the Cahiers du Cinéma critics meant about the failures of the great being better films than the best work of lesser talents.

Although Seven Psychopaths has been compared to Quentin Tarantino's work for its cartoonish trail of blood and deadpan violence, director - writer Martin McDonagh is smarter than Tarantino — not in any smarmy, obnoxious way, but a dramatic one.

But scribes Andrew Knight (who mostly works in television but also scripted Russell Crowe's directorial effort The Water Diviner in 2014) and Robert Schenkkan (who has also worked as a television writer since adapting Graham Greene's The Quiet American for Phillip Noyce) give leverage to Doss» interactions with his combative superiors (a rather kitschy but likeable Vince Vaughn fares better than a somnolent Sam Worthington), underlining his developmental difficulties with authority figures thanks to his alcoholic dad.

In one sense, writers had it easier than actors or directors because they could keep working by hiding behind pseudonyms.

Similarly, I'd prefer to think that the dullness of Damage isn't attributable to the remarkable Jeremy Irons, whom I consider an auteur — that is, a more powerful creative presence than any writer or director he works with.

Although the noted writer / director continues his trend of capturing excellent performances from his leading ladies (having worked with Jane Birkin in La Fille prodigue, her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg in Amoureuse, Juliette Binoche in La Vie de famille and Isabelle Huppert in La vengeance d'une femme), The Three Way Wedding fails to turn its significant female presence into anything more than an expressive yet insubstantial feature, instead existing in the space between amusing and neurotic, and passionate and melodramatic.