They have inside contacts with specific editors and know better
than writers what editor or publisher would be most likely to buy a particular work.
But then they started to believe their own hype, they started to actually believe that they knew better
than writers what writers needed.
Not exact matches
To avoid bad but vaguely plausible start - up ideas —
what the Y Combinator team calls sitcom ideas, i.e., the kind of ideas TV
writers would make up if a character on a show had a start - up — choose something that some people want a lot rather
than something lots of people might sort of want a little.
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.
According to the late Russian dissident Andrei Sinyavsky, «Every self - respecting
writer of any significance is a saboteur, and, as he surveys the horizon wondering
what to write about, more often
than not he will choose some forbidden topic.»
Think of
what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser
writer than Twain, certainly, but one who knew something very important about the world he didn't.
What the early Christian believers and
writers, for example Mark, tried to do was apply to him the highest conceivable categories, human and divine; but in the end these all proved inadequate, as the later church soon discovered; for Jesus means more, was more, and is more
than any of these categories could convey.
One can tell from tone much more
than what a
writer may intend to say.
The Austrian mystic, Baron von Hügel, understood spiritual dryness better
than most religious
writers have, and he gives some graphic illustrations as to
what to do about it.
Naturally the priority is the theology of Nicky Gumbel, vicar of HTB and
writer of the Alpha talks, rather
than what the Catholic tradition understands as the Deposit of Faith entrusted to the Apostolic Church.
The following example is nothing more
than a word balloon from God, but
what do you think of
what this
writer has God saying?
The Jewish
writers of the New Testament introduced the «ecclesiastical attitude» and other distortions that led to
what Rauschenbusch calls «ascetic Christianity,» a religious attitude that thinks in terms of heaven, divine intervention, and personal salvation rather
than social justice.
Islam's «West - stricken - ness» There are few things more important to understanding contemporary Islam, says Mottahedeh,
than what one Iranian
writer named as gharbzadegi.
bit, but I thought we were focusing on
what Jesus actually said as a whole via his teaching and parables rather
than what he did or
what the gospel
writers or St. Paul said.
What we find is a series of separate scenes — snapshots rather
than a movie — and the four
writers, who in the closing scenes were constrained to follow a fixed order of events, use a large liberty in arranging the separate stories they tell, and the arrangement comes out differently in each of them.
After all, if all these smarter -
than - me theologians, theorists, academics, scholars, thinkers, and leaders on both sides of the issue haven't been able to put the debate to rest,
what chance does a slim yellow book by a happy - clappy Canadian mama -
writer have?
I remembered Brennan Manning — the man who has translated the love of God in a way that I could receive it more
than probably any other
writer — was addicted to alcohol and I re-read up one of his last books before he died: «All is Grace: A Ragamuffin Memoir» where he vulnerably writes about
what this battle has cost him, even as he experienced the unending and unconditional love of God in the midst of it, how he experienced regret and pain and loss alongside of the love and tenderness of God in this dependency.
Matthew knew
what John knew — John did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be
than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each
writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things
than John.
But, I question
what the fuss is about that we have no new Flannery O'Connors, when the old O'Connors, the Catholic
writers of an earlier day, seem to have gained popular attention largely by giving a slightly Catholic accent to the conventions of existentialism rather
than offering a vision of the world that really captured its intelligible and lovable quality — one that prepares us, as Beatrice prepared Dante, to enter into the presence of grace.
The congregation finds it simpler and less troublesome to believe the things God did as recorded by those few
writers who survived the babel of conflicting proclamations of God's Word and achieved canonicity
than to venture some faith - decision amid differing announcements of
what God is doing in our time.
What a tragedy it is when we collectively dismiss the goals and aspirations of the entrepreneur, the artist, the
writer, the thinker, because their world is more self - consuming
than the simple bureaucratic policy wonk would have us believe.
As with any literature, the
writer's message is larger
than the mere content of
what he says, for it includes
what he is trying to communicate through
what he writes.
I am more
than disappointed that the Tony Jones» support team is unable to appreciate
what's good about the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment and the rights they use all of the time as pastors / speakers / bloggers /
writers and authors but don't want anyone else to have!
More
than common circumstances, however,
what drew me and so many other young
writers to L'Engle was her articulation of the writing life as a sacred art.
What makes the claims that the gospel writers have Jesus say any more trustworthy than what the Greek myths have their human / god hybrids saying about themsel
What makes the claims that the gospel
writers have Jesus say any more trustworthy
than what the Greek myths have their human / god hybrids saying about themsel
what the Greek myths have their human / god hybrids saying about themselves?
Paul is not only aware of these things; he is perhaps more responsible
than any other scriptural
writer for teaching us these things; i.e.;
what it means to be a sinner.
Both letters are more invective
than they are argument; their
writers knew that there is a time when scathing condemnation is more effective
than calm apologetic; and it is from the vivid and violent picture of the heretics that we must try to reconstruct
what these heretics stood for.
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.
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.
The problem with AFC aside from the gutless money grabbing glory shy board, owners and manager is fans like the
writer of this inane ridiculous article; fans who more
than satisfied with mediocrity and take delight in trotting out silly stats to back up their lack of ambition and will... 2 loses in 15 games the
writer said but conveniently forgetting to mention
what impact the 2 loses had on the table, moral and the significance of winning these 2 matches.....
Hahaha the
writer just said Giroud is a better player
than many arsenal fans give him credit for.You must be joking.Sometimes i wish peeps here tell me
what i am missing about him.The team is rather making him look better
than he really is.If he was in a lower team like Reading fc he would be so poor to be honest.Even Chamakh and Bendtner had more potential.I become so angry when i see him playing anytime but yh i live with it.I just hope we sell him.
I feel competent people want wenger in or atleast let him finish his contract this
writer wrote facts were winning silverware and no matter
what we win or how far we make it the wenger outs just need that negative element to feed they make it obvious when they have no facts to stand on oyher
than we lost a final that we beat last years champions to get into and lost to this years champion who have been the best team in england not much to stand on
they should try listening to
what the researchers have to say next time, rather
than a paid by the word
writer contracting for huffpost.
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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.
Gaga is clearly a better
writer than Grisanti's chief of staff;
what a poorly - crafted statement.
What better
writer to wax poetic about insects
than Lockwood, who teaches ecology, philosophy and creative writing at the University of Wyoming.
Even when scientists first discovered the exoplanet, then - Gizmodo science
writer Jennifer Ouellette wrote that «because Proxima Centauri is a fairly active star, Proxima b suffers x-ray fluxes approximately 400 times greater
than what we experience here on Earth, and this could cause any atmosphere to blow away.»
It even provoked Tinder to unleash a tweet rampage (more
than 30 tweets) against the
writer for
what the company perceived as biased reporting.
There should be more point to dramatizing something
than the fact that it has yet to be dramatized, and it's not entirely clear if
writer Tim Talbott or director Kyle Patrick Alvarez know
what that reason is.
But director /
writer Richard Brooks has a little more on his mind
than simply a horse race and those liberal causes are
what the piece is really about.
There is something promising here, and neither Fleming nor
writer Stephen Zotnowski seems to have much of a clue as to
what he's doing, so if nothing else sells, it's the performances, particularly those of Scott Speedman and the lovely Evan Rachel Wood (At the risk of sounding creepy, her titular bare feet are admittedly very beautiful), with Wood, as an unstable and emotionally and socially stunted woman who has more to her
than meets the eye, being about as effective as she can be.
is one of the best series on TV right now, i must say that the
writers make the viewers stay tuned, intriguing and wondering during all of the episode, making the viewer want to watch the show week after week, making the series is successful as it is, is brilliant
than the
writers decide to put at the end of each episode a clip about
what «A» plan to do, leaving you more intrigued that you were at the beginning of the episode.
is one of the best series on TV right now, i must say that the
writers make the viewers stay tuned, intriguing and wondering during all of the episode, making the viewer want to watch the show week after week, making the series is successful as it is, is brilliant
than the
writers decide to put at the end of each episode a clip about
what «A» plan to do, leaving you more intrigued that
The low - budget flick made big money, but somehow — in
what's surely a behind - the - scenes Hollywood story crueler
than anything Strangers
writer - director Bryan Bertino could get onscreen — it's taken ten years for a sequel to make it to theaters.
What makes «Very Bad Things» a more rewarding experience
than other films in its genre is that
writer - director Peter Berg seems to be onto the fact that he's making a piece of shock schlock and not a sociological pronouncement.
To the enormous credit of these preternaturally clever
writer - directors, the above paragraph contains more low - hanging Lego puns
than the movie itself, which relies on ingenuity and genuinely inspired twists on
what audiences expect from such an experience to deliver a constant stream of engagement and laughs.
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