Sentences with phrase «up ideas for his stories»

Henry James (1843 - 1916), the prolific American writer of the late 19th / early 20th century, was known to pick up ideas for his stories from dinner party conversations.

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Developing story ideas for your blog is a lot like coming up with a business idea: You're bound to come up with a handful of duds that have a few gems sprinkled between.

The story: Ganahl and her husband, Bion Flammang, came up with the idea to start a doggie - daycare company together after struggling to find care for their own dogs when they traveled.

Realizing the potential catalyst Malala's story could be for the movement to educate girls, Malala's family and Shahid came up with the idea to establish a fund.

And don't dismiss the idea of picking up the phone first and trying to directly reach an editor or associate editor, depending on the size of the media outlet, especially if you've identified more than one writer who would be appropriate for your story.

I write a few stories a month about beer for national newspapers and magazines, so I'll be coming up with story ideas, doing interviews or visiting brewers.

We've all heard the story: You've got a great idea for the next billion dollar company and maybe even some respectable domain expertise to back it up, but you need a prototype built in order to gain traction and attract investors and you have no idea how to code it yourself.

«He was constantly writing and drawing and coming up with ideas for new stories.»

Please don't listen to these people on here they have so many different views and ideas of their own but don't listen to them they have closed their heart to God and are doing Satans work of misleading people away from the Almighty they look for men who like to have their ears tickled so don't take mine our anyone else's word for it look it up for your self history attests to the bible as true and The writings of Moses is far older than anything they have ever found thats right Moses wrote the first parts in the bible 3,500 years ago The scriptures weren't inspired by Pagan stories Pagan stories was inspired by actual events just like those in the bible because if you notice that a lot of the stories found in the bible have a lot to do about people worshipping false Gods.

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Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

Point of story, i know kids SHOULD taste and eat all sorts of things, that kids should eat what's on the table and not have a short order cook, and i agree totally that they CAN eat the type of lunch pictured above, but one thing DOES bother me: Kids NEED fuel for their day, and i don't think giving them something completely new and fancy as a lunch is a great idea as the lunch will most likely end up still in the lunch box at the end of the day and you will have a famished child waiting for dinner.

Austin is home to a plethora of awesome mom blogs that are chock - full of helpful resources, ideas, and opportunities for meeting up with other moms and swapping parenting stories.

I spoke to a contact who admitted that he and one other guy, also now working for the government, came up with the idea of the campaign over a drink while they were reading a story about Labour's policy in the Guardian.

I sent a heads - up email to FiOS1News because the Executive Producer had recently been asking for story ideas from New Rochelle.

During this time, I also started coming up with ideas for other venues and reading about how to «pitch» potential stories to editors.

If you've got some exciting work coming out, use your institution's press office to help you tell your story and come up with ideas for illustrating it.

This year, a bevy of websites have put up stories aimed at giving marchers who might be at a loss for words (and pictures) a few ideas for their placards.

When this center is unbalanced, you might find yourself holding on to an idea, a relationship, or a position for dear life, caught up in «being right,» or lost in habitual emotional patterns and stories.

This craft idea came along at the perfect time since my friend Beth from Home Stories A to Z invited me to team up with her and 21 other talented bloggers for a Thrifty Under $ 50 blog hop this week.

Primarily MT is a fashion & style blog for women over 40 — Daily outfits & Make - Up tips, home decorating ideas & travel stories mixed in with my mid-life musings.

Keep sending ideas my way for what YOU want to see more of, whether it's fashion or health and beauty goodies, or love stories and inspiration to spice up Hump Days of the future.

And just as the occasional news story of some lucky sap winning $ 6 million in a single night at Atlantic City's blackjack tables may stir you to try your own luck for a weekend, the odd story of a happy couple finding true love on Match.com will likely convince you that signing up is a great idea.

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If you find yourself listening eagerly when friends share first date stories, or have toyed with the idea of signing up for a mature dating site, it's a good sign that you're at least open to the possibility of love.

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007 Legends attempts to be a big, brassy tribute to 50 years of James Bond, but it ends up a little too ambitious for its own good, with a story that is more spectacle than substance and some new ideas that don't work together as well as they should.

Final Exam has a unique set of ideas for a story, the graphics are... colorful and the player can choose between four characters who each have their own weapon variety, leveling up system and the game is diverse.

The story goes that when Alfred Hitchcock conceived the idea for «North by Northwest» he really just came up with three action set - pieces — Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint hanging from the faces on Mount Rushmore, the cropduster chasing Grant through a cornfield and the sequence that has bad guys pouring liquor down Grant's throat until he's too drunk to drive, then putting him behind the wheel of a car that is sent careening down a mountain.

Idea Factory walked a fine line here and ended up with a cool, stylish experience for anyone that just wants to chill in an easy chair with a cool story.

Beautiful visuals, clever ideas and a pleasant story can't make up for a shallow and overly linear gameplay.

Peterson, who began at Pixar as an animator on its first feature film, «Toy Story,» and co-directed the 2009 Oscar - winning movie «Up,» conceived the idea for «The Good Dinosaur,» which envisions an Earth where dinosaurs never became extinct.

For a long time there have been rumours that buoyed by working on «Prometheus», Scott has been playing with the idea of returning to the «Blade Runner» universe, and last year Alcon Entertainment confirmed that Scott would produce and direct a follow up to the sci - fi classic (Collider story here).

The main story in «Black Panther» picks up immediately afterward, as T'Challa faces the trials necessary for him to ascend the throne as he wrestles with the idea of what his duties might be as king.

Denis Villeneuve's follow - up to Ridley Scott's iconic Blade Runner is visually dazzling with the ideas, plot and performances to match, while the travails of a touring rock group provide the perfect soundtrack for a sweet love story in On The Road

Speaking to Variety's chief film critic Scott Foundas, Mann discusses growing up in Chicago, becoming interested in crime stories, the visual ideas he had for the film, the nonfiction book he discarded but still credited, the influence of real criminals and past films (particularly his eye - opening time shooting The Jericho Mile in Folsom Prison), choosing Tangerine Dream to do the score (a decision he still second guesses), the film's writing (including basing characters on real crime figures), casting, explosive stunts, changes made from the shooting script, and the modernist narrative.

(5) Then, we cut back to the first story, and the friend starts telling the parents about his idea for a new screenplay, about a boy who tries to track down his mother, a prostitute, but instead ends up hanging around another call girl instead (6).

Whenever I see «inspired by a true story» in the credits, I translate that to mean that the idea for the film may be based on a real person, but the majority of the story and its characters are fictitious and made - up for dramatic purposes.

As a brief bit of history (as it is sort of needed to explain the story), Smith came up with the idea for Tusk on an episode of his podcast show with former producing partner Scott Mosier after seeing a news story about an old man who is offering a room to rent free of charge so long as the occupant pretends to be a walrus once a month.

A bland idea for a story combined with a weak cast adds up to a rather tepid thriller.

The story is actually about how Kroc sort of «stole» the business right out from under the McDonald brothers, played by Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch, who originally came up with the idea for a fast food burger joint in the 1950s.

In February, Sherlock creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss indicated that their beloved BBC series Sherlock could return for a new season at some point, but it would probably take a few years for them to come up with a worthy story idea and for Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman's increasingly busy schedules to open.

I don't mind directors trying to do something new with the story (Oldboy's prison for hire is a great idea and I wouldn't mind someone forgetting the original movie and making a film about that concept with a totally new character), but when Spike Lee sticks so closely to the plot, he is setting himself up for failure.

First time screenwriter Megan Holley got her bright idea for this film when she heard a story on the radio about a new growth industry: the crime scene clean - up business.

With three people coming up with the idea for the story (including co-star Queen Latifah (Barbershop 2), and three other screenwriters actually penning the script, you'd think multiple plot developments and well - rounded characters would be guaranteed.

Franka Potente deserves applause for being a charismatic female to pair Damon up with, as well as never caving into the idea of being a narrative token woman for the male hero to take to bed at the end of the story, but outside of their duo, everyone else are foot notes.

How did you come up with the idea for the story?

Though most behind - the - scenes features showcase the production process once filming is underway, The Player gives us a glimpse of what goes on behind the scenes of the behind - the - scenes process, where the only dreams that come true are for the people up top — the people who feel that anyone can make a story that will entertain millions, while the lowly creators that nurtured the initial ideas are seen as little more then expendable goods hardly worth receiving input from once the studio handlers squeeze their foots in the door, symbolically getting away with murder — the figurative death of the writer in the Hollywood production process.

At the film's recent press day, McCarthy, Falcone, Sarandon, Gary Cole, Mark Duplass, Nat Faxon, Sarah Baker and Kathy Bates talked about how the project first emerged, what sparked the idea for the story, how growing up in Illinois informed McCarthy and Falcone's comedy, what the stellar cast brought to the movie, their characters and how improv colored them, working with a first - time director, Sarandon's new look, the convincing couple dynamic between Bates and Sandra Oh's characters, Sarandon's selfie with Geena Davis that went viral, and the possibility of a «Thelma & Louise» sequel.

Nobody was expecting a follow - up to the lean sci - fi horror movie anyway, but screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick actually have an idea or two for how to continue the story.