Sentences with phrase «time living as a writer»

Authors such as Scott Sigler, duo Sean Platt and David Wright, Lindsay Buroker, Joe Konrath, CJ Lyons and many others, are making a decent income and even earning a full time living as a writer.

Not exact matches

«My husband and I probably spend more than the average person on groceries, as we both love to cook... perhaps $ 168 per week,» says Delorys Welch - Tyson, a U.S. writer and painter who has lived in Nice full - time since 1998.

We each have different demands on our lives and on our time and on our energy, we all have differing capacity and needs as writers.

Of course if that writer intended something else, as he may well have done, namely that the «times», in the sense of the particular segment of history in which he lived, were indeed «evil» and were marked by wickedness, with a collapse of standards and the denial of all that is of abiding significance; if he intended that, there may well have been much truth in his statement.

Editor's note: David Van Biema, the chief religion writer at Time Magazine for ten years, is author of the illustrated biography «Mother Teresa: The Life and Works of a Modern Saint,» now being reissued and made available in Spanish as «La Madre Teresa: La Vida y las obras de una santa moderna.»

If culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What cultural realities are challenging the Gospel now?

Tolstoy, for instance, is an epic writer, whose books overflow with physical details and frequently threaten to overflow their own narrative structures and become as vast and as inconclusive as life itself, while Dostoevsky is a dramatic writer, whose books are full of fraught and urgent voices, at times almost disembodied, trapped in situations of immediate and pressing crisis, and surrounded by a physical world usually having no more substance than a collection of painted canvasses or pasteboard silhouettes at the back of the stage.

«At precisely those points of urgent need... Paul is most conscious that he is writing as one authorized, by the apostolic call he had received from Jesus Christ, and in the power of the Spirit, to bring life and order to the church by his words... This is not to say that the writers of the New Testament specifically envisaged a time when their books would be collected together and form something like what we now know as the cannon.

We were practically neighbors for one year (1991 - 1992) before my first visit as I lived in nearby Oceanside, Calif., and was a freelance writer at the time.

She works as the lifestyles editor and writer at a San Francisco Bay Area newspaper, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Huffington Post, HuffPost Live, Mommy Tracked, Modern Mom, Divorce 360, and the anthologies Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and Work in Our 40s and Nothing But The Truth: Women on Life's Transitions.

Hope envisions a future that would free academics of such pressures, letting them develop a portfolio career where they would only be employed part time by an academic institution and complement their working lives and incomes as freelance writers, consultants, industry - based researchers, or entrepreneurs.

Ideally, I'd love to go back to freelancing full time as a food stylist, photographer, and writer, but I also really love where I'm at in life right now.

Separated Nuyorican Jew (okay short explanation: I'm a Puerto Rican Jew originally from NYC) living in Baltimore as a part time illustrator, writer, substitute teacher and Uber driver seeking new friends in this brace new world.

Writer / director Richard Ayoade, making his feature debut, nails a salient point about why it's so tough to stay grounded as a teenager: Oliver realizes that most of the «tragedies» of his life won't have meaning by the time he's 38, but that's scant comfort at the moment.

As writer and director, Baumbach casts a keen eye on the absurdities of urban life as well as the issues facing traditional filmmakers at a time when anyone and everyone can create «media» on the spoAs writer and director, Baumbach casts a keen eye on the absurdities of urban life as well as the issues facing traditional filmmakers at a time when anyone and everyone can create «media» on the spoas well as the issues facing traditional filmmakers at a time when anyone and everyone can create «media» on the spoas the issues facing traditional filmmakers at a time when anyone and everyone can create «media» on the spot.

The writer - director previously served as an intern on three of Terrence Malick's films — Weightless, Voyage of Time, The Tree of Life — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural woLife — and certainly picked up a thing or two from the impenetrable filmmaker, whose works often serve as meditations on life, death, and man's place in the natural wolife, death, and man's place in the natural world.

It weaves together audiotapes, rare home movies, diary entries, and interviews with her friends and those inspired by her, including Bill Hader, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, and Cecily Strong, original Saturday Night Live cast and crew members Chevy Chase, Laraine Newman, and Paul Shaffer, as well as SNL creator - producer Lorne Michaels, series writer Alan Zweibel, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, Second City CEO Andrew Alexander, and long - time friend and actor Martin Short.

From the moment we see her in Times Square, while she show Tracy «the ropes» of living in «the big city» to her departure to the West Coast, while Lola Kirke shows us Tracy as a timid and shy wallflower who will blossom to become a writer.

Writers Karim Aïnouz — «Love for Sale,» «Madame Satã» Rakhshan Bani - Etemad — «Under the Skin of the City,» «The May Lady» Siddiq Barmak * — «Opium War,» «Osama» Aida Begić * — «Children of Sarajevo,» «Snow» Jeremy Brock — «True Crimes,» «The Last King of Scotland» Jared Bush * — «Zootopia,» «Moana» John Collee — «Tanna,» «Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World» Buddhadeb Dasgupta — «The Wrestlers,» «The Red Door» Kenneth Angelo Daurio, Jr. — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «Despicable Me» Luke Davies — «Lion,» «Life» Mohamed Diab — «Clash,» «Cairo 678» Lav Diaz * — «A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery,» «Norte, the End of History» Katie Dippold — «Snatched,» «Ghostbusters» Nelson Pereira dos Santos * — «How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman,» «Barren Lives» Ildikó Enyedi * — «Simon Magus,» «My Twentieth Century» Safi Faye * — «Mossane,» «Lettre Paysanne» Feng Xiaogang — «If You Are the One,» «A World without Thieves» Paz Alicia Garciadiego — «Bleak Street,» «Deep Crimson» Bahman Ghobadi — «Turtles Can Fly,» «A Time for Drunken Horses» Goutam Ghose * — «Shankhachil,» «Paar» Eric Heisserer — «Arrival,» «Lights Out» Barry Jenkins * — «Moonlight,» «Medicine for Melancholy» Alejandro Jodorowsky * — «The Holy Mountain,» «El Topo» Phil Johnston * — «Zootopia,» «Wreck - It Ralph» Kim Ki - duk * — «3 - Iron,» «Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring» Mohammed Lakhdar - Hamina * — «Chronicle of the Years of Embers,» «The Winds of the Aures» Brit Marling — «The East,» «Another Earth» Márta Mészáros * — «Diary for My Children,» «Adoption» Mike Mills — «20th Century Women,» «Beginners» Idrissa Ouedraogo * — «Tilaï,» «Yaaba» Éva Pataki — «The Seventh Room,» «Diary for My Loves» Cinco Paul — «The Secret Life of Pets,» «DespicableMe» Jordan Peele * — «Get Out,» «Keanu» Simon Pegg — «Run Fat Boy Run,» «Shaun of the Dead» Mohammad Rasoulof * — «Manuscripts Don't Burn,» «Goodbye» Eran Riklis * — «Lemon Tree,» «The Syrian Bride» Céline Sciamma — «My Life as a Zucchini,» «Tomboy» Mrinal Sen * — «The Case Is Closed,» «In Search of Famine» Taylor Sheridan — «Hell or High Water,» «Sicario» Sooni Taraporevala — «Mississippi Masala,» «Salaam Bombay!»

As a stand - alone piece, it feels a tad hollow at times and like it is barely scratching the surface of this important writer's life and motivations.

Her career as a writer is out of her control, given the times in which she lives, but the eternal questions are given the most weight by the end of the film.

Additional celebrities at SIFF this year included Academy Award - winning director Morgan Neville with his documentary The Music of Strangers: Yo - Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; award - winning writer and director James Schamus of Indignation; award - winning cinematographer Kirsten Johnson with her directorial debut Cameraperson; acclaimed actor Clea DuVall with her directorial debut The Intervention; directors Miles B. Miller and Joshua H. Miller, producer Kathryn Tucker, and actor Paul Sparks of All the Birds Have Flown South; actor Craig Robinson in Morris From America; director Jonathan Parker, producers Catherine di Napoli and Deborah Parker, and actor Eric McCormack with The Architect; Mike Birbiglia, director of Don't Think Twice; YouTube sensation and documentary subject of Presenting Princess Shaw Samantha Montgomery, who performed at the Opening Night Gala; Irish drag queen and marriage equality advocate Panti Bliss, subject of the documentary The Queen of Ireland, as well as director Conor Horgan; director Martin Spirit and subject Spencer Haywood of Full Court: The Spencer Haywood Story; irector Ned Crowley and actor Jim O'Heir of Middle Man; director James Redford with his new documentary Resilience; Pearl Jam founding member and Gleason composer Mike McCready; actor Laura Carmichael and director Chanya Button with the US premiere of Burn Burn Burn; director Iwai Shunji of A Bride for Rip Van Winkle; Joshua Marston, director of Complete Unknown; actor Corentin Fila of Being 17; Andreas Öhman, director of Eternal Summer; Ti West, director of In A Valley of Violence; director Roger Ross Williams and subject Ron Suskind of Life, Animated; director Nathan Adloff, actor Tim Boardman and producers Stephen Israel and Ash Christian of Miles; director Linas Phillips and producer Ian Bugno of Rainbow Time; Richard Tanne, director of Southside With You; Jocelyn Moorhouse, director of The Dressmaker; Brent Hodge, director of The Pistol Shrimps.

No surprise there, the two - time Academy Award nominee turning in an explosively hypnotic performance as a hard - living, emotionally volatile writer with a gambling addiction who is slowly destroying the lives of his wife and son.

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Only a very few are able to escape that dismal ending to their dreams by making money and creating a true career as a writer, and the money is rarely enough to make a living so they need a spouse with a lucrative job or a trust fund so they can afford to write full time.

What is life like now, as a full - time writer?

Through a lens that shifts across time and space, readers will dip into the lives of writers, parents and lovers, slowly furrowing deep into their very cores, where universal fears and the crux of identity are laid bare, serving as the true foundation that unites this colorful cast of memorable characters.

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.

When it became time to earn a living, I turned to writing as a public relations specialist and health education writer.

Carol, Jill, and Amber (at the self - publishing division of Writer's Relief) could not have been more generous with their time as we worked together toward the final product, Still Life With Weather, a chapbook.

I see people who ought to be spending their time developing their craft and people who used to be able to make their living as freelance writers.

Nancy Holland recently began to live her dream as a full - time writer.

My very practical and honest father, who worked in special education administration for much of his career, told me that writers have a hard time earning a living and that I should think about doing something else as a career to provide financial security.

Sometimes the connection between writer and artist doesn't work out as well as one hopes, but other times, Torres says, «it's fulfilling to see what comes back» when his words are brought to life by an artist's pencil.

The numbers vary, but for pro-level writers, whether they started with New York publishers and went indy or worked their way up, many say the same time: «I'm making a living as a writer.»

Generally, I don't recommend trying to get into bookstores or focusing on live events such as book signings, but it's important to address WHY I don't recommend them, since most first time authors will persist in achieving visual markers that match the «writer fantasies» they grew up with.

Successfully self - published: Pressbooks author Inglath Cooper Inglath Cooper is living the dream as a full - time writer with 19 titles published on Amazon.

And by the time I'm 40, I fully expect to be able to go ppppppppbbbbbbtttttttttt at my mother, who said I couldn't make a living as a writer.

But each writer I work with becomes the most important person in my work life as we go back and forth in the intimate and challenging process of producing a successful book that's ready for prime time.

Weir, 43, describes himself as a «life - long space nerd and science fanatic» who dreamed of giving up his day job and becoming a full - time writer.

Inspired by the example of the legendary WPA American Guide series of the 1930s and»40s, fifty of our foremost writers have produced original pieces of reportage and memoir that capture the fifty states in our time, creating a fresh portrait of America as it lives and breathes today.

Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961 - from Hemingway's pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide - Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar.

Lynn Vincent is the New York Times best - selling writer of «Same Kind of Different as Me» and «Going Rogue: An American Life.»

In a recent report by the The Los Angeles Times, the Guild's new president, Roxana Robinson, stated, «As writers, we are living in very interesting tTimes, the Guild's new president, Roxana Robinson, stated, «As writers, we are living in very interesting timestimes.

Even though she acknowledges some writers do live on their earnings she says, «I need to get a life - and you need time to grow as a writer... I think the Icarus Girl is an apprentice work.

a genre I graduated from years ago.I credit her with being one of the better writers in this category and Mrs. Hockaday proves that her skills as a story teller have not diminished.Having said that I also feel that the discriminatory practices of the mid to late 19th century in America dictate the motivations of each character in a relatively predictable way... so while the entertainment value is indisputable the «mystery» is no more than the reality of life at the time... nothing memorable or instructive here for me... simply a reminder that the mores of the past rarely survive the scrutiny of the present without some readjustment.

I have 190,000 + books sold on Amazon to date in the last four years, and make my living as a full time writer.

Lisa Unger says that for a long time she didn't believe it was possible to make a living as a writer, «mainly because that's what people always told me», so she went into the profession that brought her closest to her dream - publishing.

As I have stated several times, authors with a modicum of business sense (which is why I wrote How to Make a Living as a Writer) are the only corks on this roiling sea of changAs I have stated several times, authors with a modicum of business sense (which is why I wrote How to Make a Living as a Writer) are the only corks on this roiling sea of changas a Writer) are the only corks on this roiling sea of change.

Just as important, she is there for you for support to guide you through the tough times that every memoir writer encounters, particularly when writing about the tough and painful times of your life.