Sentences with phrase «time fiction writers»

Prior to becoming a full - time fiction writer, she worked from home as a blogger and affiliate marketer.

I still offer audio lectures online, but otherwise I'm too busy as a full time fiction writer to bother with other writers who won't listen.

Not exact matches

Rachel: My mother, Sandra Brown, is a New York Times bestselling fiction writer.

Because I'm not a woman, I couldn't do justice to the stories on my own, so I asked the top female Christian fiction writer of our time — Mary DeMuth — to coauthor it with me.

It is the rare reader of fiction who does not at some time or other consider becoming a writer.

At a time when many writers of fiction appear content to spin out tales concocted by marketing firms, or else lose themselves in worlds of arch and arcane wordplay, Murdoch is extravagant, enthusiastic and earnest.

But, whereas in ancient times the apocalyptic writers expected God to usher in the new world, the first science fiction authors described a future created by human invention.

Whether it's the fiction writer tying in a cliff hanger at the end of every chapter, derailing the reader's plan to stop for the night five chapters ago, or the comedian on stage who knows that he must surprise his audience at least 180 times... keep the surprises coming.

Toby is a part - time writer of fiction, poetry, music and freelance articles, with particular interests in creativity and the nature of consciousness.

Because we physicists have realized that the nature of time is too important an issue to be left solely in the hands of science fiction writers.»

Aside from the sorts of paradoxes beloved by science fiction writers — a time traveler who accidentally kills his own grandparents, say — time travel has more subtle, theoretical problems.

Like interstellar travel, time machines and cyberspace, nanotechnology has become one of the core plot devices on which science - fiction writers draw

I consider myself to be both an aspiring scientist and fiction writer (althoguh sadly grad school has not allowed me much writing time).

In that time, many a period action flick has faltered financially, including Jonah Hex, John Carter, Cowboys & Aliens, and Conan the Barbarian, whose creator, pulp fiction writer Robert E. Howard, introduced the character of Solomon Kane back in 1928.

Oliva is able to take his long time directing and storyboard artist experience along with screenplay writer J.M. DeMatteis and craft a highly entertaining and gripping piece of Batman fiction.

The criss - crossed film narrative is in a state of overuse, but writer - director James DeMonaco's droll, modestly stylish crime gewgaw «Staten Island» wrings a few suspenseful and comic pleasures out of a time - bending format that has served the likes of Quentin Tarantino («Pulp Fiction») and Sidney Lumet («Before the Devil Knows You're Dead») among scores of others.

However in the hands of writer / director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, In Time), the result is occasionally challenging, dealing with both the science fiction elements and the teen angst at the heart of the story.

By the time he becomes a fiction writer late in the picture, it's implied that his jealous scenarios with Ramona and earlier girlfriends function as a kind of substitute for writing — or perhaps vice versa.

Johnson, though, might have brought in a science fiction writer with some familiarity with the paradoxes of time travel stories.

TIME AFTER TIME Picked up to series STUDIO: Outerbanks Entertainment / Warner Bros TV TEAM: Kevin Williamson (w, ep), Marcos Siega (d, ep) LOGLINE: Based on the novel by Karl Alexander and movie, it delivers a fantastical cat - and - mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern - day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the RipTIME AFTER TIME Picked up to series STUDIO: Outerbanks Entertainment / Warner Bros TV TEAM: Kevin Williamson (w, ep), Marcos Siega (d, ep) LOGLINE: Based on the novel by Karl Alexander and movie, it delivers a fantastical cat - and - mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern - day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the RipTIME Picked up to series STUDIO: Outerbanks Entertainment / Warner Bros TV TEAM: Kevin Williamson (w, ep), Marcos Siega (d, ep) LOGLINE: Based on the novel by Karl Alexander and movie, it delivers a fantastical cat - and - mouse adventure through time when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern - day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the Riptime when famed science fiction writer H.G. Wells is transported to modern - day Manhattan in pursuit of Jack the Ripper.

The Screenwriters Intensive is for first - time fiction feature writers or writer / directors who come from underrepresented communities, including women, artists of color, LGBTQ artists, and artists with disabilities.

First - time feature writer / director Axelle Carolyn is certainly no stranger to dark fiction.

The Screenwriters Lab is for first or second - time fiction feature writers, writer / directors, or writer / director teams.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious film criticism.

Johnson brought in Shane Carruth, writer - director of the meticulously planned and way more convoluted time - travel thriller «Primer» (2004) to do some special effects work, which indicates to me that RJ is fairly serious about his science - fiction.

Dorothy B. Hughes was one of the great crime fiction writers; with an eclectic career that allowed her the time to pen some of the strongest material for film noir adaptations while also writing serious -LSB-...]

Filmed over the span of a dozen years, as its lead actor aged from 6 to 18 and his co-stars went through similar 12 - year odysseys, writer - director Richard Linklater's «Boyhood» is ambitious, engaging fiction that aims to convey time's mysterious effects on character.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

But, if executed correctly, she says schools should be challenging students to «read fiction like writers» — dissecting the connections between craft and theme, for instance — while also giving them time to experiment with less analytical forms of writing.

In the 2010 Time magazine essay «The Case Against Summer Vacation,» writer David Von Drehle said summers spent like Tom Sawyer — glorious days of «mud, mild rebellion, chaste romance and rampant imagination electrified by a dash of gander and a blaze of heroism» — were largely fiction.

Her clients include writers from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper's, as well as many graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop and other prestigious fiction workshops around the cwriters from The New Yorker, The New York Times and Harper's, as well as many graduates of the Iowa Writers Workshop and other prestigious fiction workshops around the cWriters Workshop and other prestigious fiction workshops around the country.

Next up in this power - list of new and top science fiction writers is New York Times bestselling writer and Hugo Award - winning writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch with her story The End of the World.

Our staff of agents represents dozens of authors and experts, including # 1 New York Times bestsellers, award - winning fiction writers for adults and children, and important non-fiction authors.

When Joanna Russ, one of the few successful female science - fiction writers, died last year, her obituary in The New York Times referred to her as a writer who helped «deliver science fiction into the hands of the most alien creatures the genre had yet seen — women.»

Partial Bibliography Tickets for a Prayer Wheel (1974, poems) Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (1974, nonfiction narrative) Holy the Firm (1977, nonfiction narrative) Living by Fiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The AbundanceFiction (1982, non-fiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) Teaching a Stone to Talk (1982, narrative essays) Encounters with Chinese Writers (1984, nonfiction narrative) An American Childhood (1987, memoir) The Writing Life (1989, non-fiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) The Living (1992, novel) Mornings Like This (1995, poems) For the Time Being (1999, non-fiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction narrative) The Maytrees (2007, fiction) The Abundancefiction) The Abundance (2016)

His novels include The Happiest People in the World, Exley (which was a Kirkus Book of the Year, a finalist for the Maine Book Award, and a longlist finalist for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), and An Arsonist's Guide to Writers» Homes in New England (which was a national bestseller, and American Library Associate Notable Book of the Year, a # 1 Book Sense Pick, a Borders Original Voices in Fiction selection, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice pick).

Say You're One of Them won the Commonwealth Writers» Prize for Best First Book (Africa Region) 2009 and PEN / Beyond Margins Award 2009, and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction.

Despite, or maybe because of, my being a nonfiction writer, one whose professional career is spent dealing with facts, I like reading fiction in my spare time.

-- The highest proportion of full - time professional writers is in genre fiction, children's and literary fiction.

Some writers start to blog too early in their careers and find it's a time suck that keeps them from their fiction writing goals.

My own niche for most of the time I've been a writer has been the world of Christian fiction.

Dean started following all five of Heinlein's Rules in 1982 and since 1987 worked as a full - time professional fiction writer.

Your Hosts ~ Debbie and Ron Tracy A Couple of Writers is a podcast where we interview fiction and non-fiction authors who share their writing pains, pleasures, and time - tested tips for success.

He served for a time as the fiction columnist for Writer's Digest and he's the author of Plot & Structure, one of the books I recommend most often to beginning writers.

It was at a time in Hawkins» life that she says she was «very bad at following things through» and didn't have a lot of confidence in herself as a fiction writer.

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.»

«This my 2nd time attending the Non Fiction Writers Conference, and Stephanie Chandler did not disappoint.

If I had been in a hurry, if I didn't understand at a deep level that learning how to be an internationally - selling fiction writer took time and years, I would have stopped somewhere between 1975 and 1982.

Eli is a marketing writer by day and a fiction writer whenever he can squeeze in the time.

Sales are great, press releases, interviews, live radio guest appearances are exciting, climbing the ranks and entering the Top 100 Best Selling Authors in Science Fiction multiple times is exhilarating, but nothing beats the support from readers and friends, and fellow writers who share this thrill with me.