Sentences with phrase «than fiction writers»

Nonfiction writers have it a little bit easier than fiction writers.

The news out of Washington is putting a kink in the bevy of political dramas on TV as reality becomes stranger than any fiction writers can dream up.

Not exact matches

This is a concept that most commonly applies to fiction writers rather than marketers, but it's just as important.

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.

Few fiction writers better captured postwar American suburbia than Cheever, with discontent bubbling beneath the grassy lawns.

These problems are of such magnitudes and complexity that the quality of the future of our planetary existence now confronts us as something more than just a theoretical or imaginative issue first detailed for us by the writers of science fiction.

Nothing is more damaging to fiction, she wrote, than writers who try to impose their beliefs on their novels in a forced or unnatural way.

The bible is a book of myths and fables... It just has had better promoters, who found it useful for their purpose, than Aesop or any of the other fiction writers of the past...

The Guardian reports: «A former minister and fiction writer, Alvarado Quesada, 38, had 61 % of the vote with results in from 95 % of polling stations, a far bigger lead than predicted by opinion polls that foresaw a tight race.»

Similarly, if a science - fiction writer has something he wants to say about the interactions between some intelligent extraterrestrials and our present human race, he often finds it necessary to pretend that some means of faster - than - light travel can be found (tachyon transmissions, black - hole transit, «warp drive», or whatever), and Einstein be hanged.

Not the American science fiction writer whose novels spawned hit films such as Blade Runner and Total Recall — he died more than 20 years ago — but a state - of - the - art robot named after the author.

The special effects are laughable, but the script, co-written by acclaimed science fiction writer Moorcock, is meatier than one might expect...

You don't have to look too far or to deep to find the similarities among writer / director Andrew Niccol's three science fiction films (I'm ignoring The Host, which is more Stephanie Meyer than Niccol).

And Author: The JT Leroy Story is stranger - than - fiction documentary from Jeff Feuerzeig, which follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

Ernest Cline, author of bestselling science fiction novel Ready Player One, is undoubtedly even more pumped than your average writer, given that a large chunk of his narrative is given over to his Spielberg - fueled»80s obsession.

Anyone who feared that the writer's directorial debut would abandon the cerebral, doughty fare of his previously - penned Sunshine, Never Let Me Go and roughly 15 minutes of 2011's Dredd need not have worried — more than any of Garland's previous efforts, Ex Machina weighs the heavier side of science fiction and what it means to be human.

Annihilation shares more than a few ideas with Tarkovsky's twin science - fiction masterpieces, Solaris, an adaptation of Polish writer Stanislaus Lem's novel, and Stalker, Tarkovsky's adaptation of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's novel, «Roadside Picnic.»

Director Doug Liman, and Writer Gary Spinelli come out swinging with this stylish look - back on the late 70's and early 80's proving that sometimes life is stranger than fiction and that Tom Cruise, when given well crafted material, is still a solid actor of bravdic male characters.

There are few things more terrible than the death of a child, or more frequently exploited by fiction writers for the sake of a cheap cry.

Author: The JT Leroy Story Jeff Feuerzeig's stranger - than - fiction documentary follows the story behind literary persona JT LeRoy, a fictional writer created by American author Laura Albert, complete with a made - up back - story of prostitution, drugs and vagrancy.

Anderson's dazzling feature is also, notoriously, a thinly veiled portrait of the birth of Z - grade science - fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard's celebrity - endorsed religion, though less barbed than you might expect.

Or perhaps you want your science fiction (yes, Black Panther is still sci - fi) a little harder and deeper; look no further than Annihilation, the latest from writer and director Alex Garland (Ex Machina) and starring Natalie Portman, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez (some strong female greats), and Oscar Isaac.

But it turns out that acclaimed literary fiction isn't better than YA Salon.com commentary by Brian Platzer, a writer and teacher in New York City

But I'm not sure I can offer any meaningful analysis of the publishing model, partly because I started with a higher profile than many fiction writers might.

Weiner has a few things straight: she's a commercial rather than a «literary» writer, and female writers of commercial fiction for women are perhaps the least - respected writers in America.

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

In the IndieReCon class above, she also discusses her own brand — the Ninja Writer icons, Writer's Dojo community etc, that she is better known for in the writing world, rather than discussing her Young Adult reader base for her fiction.

More than sixty - five thousand words of original fiction from USA Todaybestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.

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.

Whether you're writing fiction or nonfiction, smart writers who know how to build their catalog around funnels will always make more money directly with their words than writers who publish their work using the old «hope and pray» business plan.

For fiction writers, it would be nothing less than a Godsend.

I know some writers in [young adult fiction] who have had a much easier time continuing their series in digital than getting a print contract for the fourth or fifth book.»

There is also the problem of writing in more than one genre or having no book available yet, that makes content creation more challenging for some fiction writers.

It's old news that the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) have raised the payment rate for its qualifying markets (e.g., the markets it considers «professional»), but that day of reckoning is now less than a month away.

1) The Big Five: Since publishing has gone from being a gentleman's business to being owned, run and operated by corporations, you have a much better chance of getting your book published if you are Snooki from Jersey Shore hawking your new diet manifesto than if you're an unknown (or even established but not famous) writer who's written a brilliant work of literary fiction.

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Spend a week with John Updike, one of the few writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once.

While opponents of the writing point to fan fiction as being nothing more than outright theft of authors» works, supporters of these writers — who include the likes of Hugh Howey, Blake Crouch, and Barbara Freethy — recognize the writing ability of fan fiction authors, coupled with the almost worshipful love of a published work that leads them to continue the story long after the cover is closed.

After a more than a decade of publishing women's fiction at Penguin UK and Headline, Evans left the industry to become a full - time writer.

But most professional fiction writers needed little agent help and many writers didn't yet have agents other than for Hollywood.

«This leaves — blogging about writing, which may or may not be helpful, and also goes toward a very narrow audience...» All other things being equal, I suspect that marketing fiction to a thousand writers would be more effective than marketing to a thousand non-writers because the writers might encourage their own audiences to look at it.

A copy of Whitaker's on the desk of a fiction writer might get consulted less often than it would be in the hands of a political journalist, but it could also serve as a reminder of the importance of context.

It is America's oldest and most celebrated crime - fiction publication — receiving more than 100 awards including 20 Edgars from Mystery Writers of America, 40 Nobel, and Pulitzer.

In her debut novel, Rosette: A Novel of Pioneer Michigan, the unabashed writer of literary fiction Marsh assumes the role of epistolary sleuth, re-creating as closely, and with as much dignity, as possible the historical persona whose marital struggles more than 100 years ago may nevertheless seem familiar in the present day.

The first book edited by Martin, managing editor of the short - fiction magazine Zoetrope: All Story, collects essays from some very famous writers and some less famous writers, that directly address the issue of money, rather than politely sidestepping it.

It happens to be a fact that nearly every writer of fiction in the world drinks more whisky than is good for him.

The Women's Fiction Book Club, run by the Women's Fiction Writer's Association (WFWA), will be taking a break in December so we can relaunch the program in January 2015, better than ever!

Award - winning, bestselling novelist and travel writer Colin Thubron returns to fiction with his first novel in more than a decade, a searing, poetic masterwork of memory.

More than any other writer I have interviewed in recent years, Lauren Groff seems to use fiction writing as a way to discover what she really thinks and feels.

Smith's Monthly Issue # 23 Issue # 23... August 2015 More than sixty - five thousand words of original fiction from USA Todaybestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith.