Sentences with phrase «traditional writing world»

We here at the Mad Genius Club tend to be a bit insulated from the traditional writing world.

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«At the moment the ICO space is a mixture of high risk exploration hybridised with a kickstarter feel — the traditional finance world knows what a blockchain token is and will use it as a form of digital bearer certificate to allow transferal of gold or digital cash,» he wrote.

«Via traditional finance channels we see women - owned and women - led businesses receive much less funding than their male counterparts and one of the most pertinent has to be the complete dearth of women in the traditional financing world,» she wrote.

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

Edith Wharton, in a 1934 essay on Marcel Proust, wrote that his «traditional world was still essentially a Christian and a Catholic one; the moral and intellectual conflicts arising in such a society alone seemed to him worth recording.

(I put «traditional» in quotes because our conception of what constitutes «traditional» is typically influenced more by our Western, relatively privileged, culture than that of the ancient Near Eastern world in which the Bible was written.)

NY TIMES - July 21 - Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing profiles and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real - world romance.

Unlike traditional dating sites where members spend hours on computers writing autobiographies and scrutinizing photographs, a raft of newfangled dating tools are striving to better bridge the gap between online and real - world romance.

Conceived by David S. Goyer and Christopher Nolan during the writing stages of The Dark Knight Rises, the story of Man of Steel attempts to make Superman relevant to the modern age again, eschewing the traditional adventure narrative of the Richard Donner film, or the morose navel - gazing of Bryan Singer's 2006 reboot, and instead aiming to at once examine Kal - El's place in the world.

Masteringthe writing of characters has the additionalbenefit of opening a window on the world ofChinese calligraphy, regarded as one of thehighest art forms, traditional or modern.

What's more, it doesn't seem wise to me to just abandon everything through more traditional teaching methods, such as how writing benefits the brain and body as well as the power of traditional learning to teach researching skills, world facts, and listening skills.

Delany College in Western Sydney has turned traditional schooling upside down — almost literally — by developing a contemporary model of learning and teaching that is responsive to the needs of its learners and one that faces head on the challenges of a globally - connected world, writes Julie Fewster.

Just like traditional publishing seems to be about who you know in the publishing world, it seems like self - published or online writing seems to be about who you know (or who you can get noticed by) in the virtual world.

One can see that traditional mode of learning to write; following the LSRW theory can not help an individual to head on the challenges put forth by the digital world.

But traditional mode of writing may not prove effective in the modern world because pedantic words and usages distract readers from going through the same.

Around this time, a lovely reporter at Publisher's Weekly decided to write a story about me and my success on Wattpad, and because of this, the traditional publishing world came calling.

So when I wasn't at all looking for traditional any more, when I was thrilled to death with life as an indie, I find myself in the middle of the best of both worlds, with possibly the world's most perfect agent for me, falling right into my lap without ever writing a single query letter.

In the old world of traditional publishing it most likely wasn't your first novel written, but it will always be considered your first novel from that publication forward.

And this brings up another issue — and Alan has written about this, and so have I — of what is the value of the traditional publisher in the new world?

Referencing C.P. Snow's «two cultures», he introduced the «third culture» consisting of «those scientists and other thinkers in the empirical world who, through their work and expository writing, are taking the place of the traditional intellectual in rendering visible the deeper meanings of our lives, redefining who and what we are.

(Actually, the authors who will really make money in this new world are those who can write fast or who have backlists they own and sell to both traditional publishers and have other projects up at the same time to take advantage of this promotion.)

In this ever - changing world of self - publishing, indie publishing, and traditional publishing, authors are innundated with things that take their time away from writing.

But to writers who think that their only job is to write a salable book, I'm sure it seems like a lot of unnecessary work (the fact that they're living in a fantasy world if they think they won't have to do stuff other than write in traditional publishing now too is entirely beside the point).

Not only must they write well, they also have to get that writing out into the world somehow (traditional publishing, self - publishing, or other alternatives like publishing an online magazine).

I'd written a couple of novels before Defending Jacob that were more traditional crime novels, which is to say they were set entirely in the world of cops and criminals.

Traditional publishers wrote the rules; no one — publishing houses, agents or mainstream media — would touch self - published authors, largely denigrated as hacks who couldn't cut it in the traditiTraditional publishers wrote the rules; no one — publishing houses, agents or mainstream media — would touch self - published authors, largely denigrated as hacks who couldn't cut it in the traditionaltraditional world.

Some authors began in self - publishing and were picked up by a traditional publisher; others, just by way of example, work quite happily in both worlds, creating content with traditional publishing in mind, while still writing other titles that they plan to self - publish.

I ghost wrote a 20,000 word eBook for a certified personal trainer and can help you navigate the world of self - publishing and / or traditional publishing.

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Content — The Song of Achilles, a novel by Madeline Miller, is a good example of how the traditional publishing apparatus does bring excellent books into the world, in this case after 10 years of writing and revision.

You can see from all the scrambling of traditional publishers that they can see the writing on the wall and it says «nanny nanny boo boo» to their world domination.

A bigwig from the traditional publishing world takes a look at the data — usually some sort of downturn in the industry — and writes a piece predicting the future of publishing.

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The Shayne Parkinsons, Vicki Tyleys, L.J. Sellers, and Richard Tuttles of the indie world — authors who write very well and excellent stories but who were unable (or unwilling) to break into the traditional publishing world — now have a chance to be discovered and claim the large and broad readership their writings deserve.

Then, their novels (or, as I distinctly gleaned, their «real writing») could be saved up and more intelligently submitted to the can't - be-bothered world of traditional publishing.

For instance, if you've written a book on spirituality, Google «Spiritual Radio Shows» and start sending inquiries to shows listed on sites like: • Sedona Talk Radio • HayHouse Radio • One World Puja Network • New Age Spirituality Talk Radio • Inside Personal Growth (podcasts) Traditional radio stations are also in play, of course.

Stephen England: I never submitted my manuscript to a traditional publisher, for one primary reason — I had already been forced to change the plot twice over the course of writing it in order to adjust for unfolding world events.

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While writing this post, I did a bit more research into the world of traditional publishing.

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-LSB-...] When I reported the Digital Book World and Writer's Digest Author Survey annual writing income results for 2013, Hugh Howey, casting the results as indie vs. traditional publishing, demanded a recount: -LSB-...]

Amazon's focus on ebooks might not matter particularly for a traditional publishing venture (although I think all publishers today should be at least thinking about establish online communities), but Kindle Worlds is attempting to attract the fan communities, who not only write, but also interact and read, online.

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Even though it was a small publisher who gave me my first fiction contract (and all my subsequent contracts until I began writing for Kindle Worlds), it didn't feel like traditional publishing to me.

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

On almost the far side the world, Israel agriculture minister Uri Ariel, a member of the Jewish Home party, on October 15, 2015 wrote to environment minister Avi Gabbay that sterilizing cats violates traditional Jewish law, an interpretation almost unique to himself, and that therefore Israel should either «transfer feral cats from one gender (all males or all females) to a foreign country,» or use deodorants to keep tomcats from smelling queens in heat.

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While there's plenty of focus on traditional journalists in regards to corruption and questionable ethics, most people simply ignore that Youtube is far from safe, and that contracts like the one seen for Shadow of Mordor indicate that the problems so often associated with written journalist may be slowly seeping into Youtube's world.

It isn't innovative in a traditional sense, but it smacks companies like Ubisoft in the face and screams at them that massive world can be packed with worthwhile stories rather than filler content, that huge games can be launched with relatively few problems, that dark and mature doesn't just mean bloody and shocking, that the audience deserve smart writing and that consumers can be treated with respect instead of ramming pre-order bonuses and other crap down their throat.

They ditched traditional models in order to engage in real time on bill C - 51, launching a blog about it (antiterrorlaw.ca), publishing their work on the world's largest open - access database — the Social Science Research Network — sending it to public policy - makers, writing op - eds, and appearing before parliamentary committees.