Sentences with phrase «wannabe writer in»

If you were a wannabe writer in the time of Jane Austin or Charles Dickens, your chances of meeting them and asking writing - related questions would be practically nonexistent.

Not exact matches

«Your passing, superficial knowledge of the risk factors of a given thing, gleaned from newspapers and television and repeated ad nauseum by a million wannabe pundits and newsletter writers, are priced in.»

Synopsis: When shallow wannabe - writer Rory (Bradley Cooper) finds an old manuscript tucked away in a bag, he decides to pass the work off as his own.

And finally, TV stars Vincent Piazza («Boardwalk Empire «-RRB- and Michael Imperioli («The Sopranos «-RRB- are joining Patricia Arquette («True Romance «-RRB- in NYC mobland tale «The Wannabe,» for debut writer - director Nick Sandow.

Dave Franco plays wannabe actor Greg Sestero (writer of the tell - all book on which this is based), a blandly handsome San Francisco suburbanite who falls in with the secretive, much - older Wiseau (James Franco, building an eerily accurate impression based mainly on The Room and its creator's inscrutable persona, but nothing deeper).

This sporadically amusing crowd - pleaser stars Paul (There Will Be Blood) Dano as a sexually confused wannabe writer who fantasizes a «Great Gatsby» existence while barely functioning in the real world.

Are indie books, whether in e-book or print format, simply the vanity products of wannabe writers who can't find publishers the old - fashioned way?

At the very top of the pyramid, you have people like Howey and Konrath who have realized they can get FAR more sales if they stroke the egos of wannabe writers (who will then buy their books in gratitute) than they could ever make if their writing actually had to stand on its own.

4 years ago people were curious about publishing, but scared by all the bad - mouthing they read in Writers Digest (funded largely by vanity presses) and by online wannabes.

You see them all over Twitter: «wannabe writer» in the bio — I want to say, well, do it, then!!!!

Yet, I've seen some authors and readers turn their noses up at indie publishing, saying it floods the market with sub-par books and the writers are wannabe hacks who couldn't cut it in «real» publishing.

At every turn in the satirical story, someone who could unmask our protagonist lurks... Shriver's fear of being outed as an impostor rings true for any writer — wannabe or bona fide — who's ever doubted their abilities.»

Joe sez: Some people believe the ease of self - publishing means that millions of wannabe writers will flood the market with their crummy ebooks, and the good authors will get lost in the morass, and then family values will go unprotected and the economy will collapse and the world will crash into the sun and puppies and kittens by the truckload will die horrible, screaming deaths.

Evy Journey, SPR (Self Publishing Review) Independent Woman Author awardee, is a writer, a wannabe artist, and a flâneuse who, wishes she lives in Paris where people have perfected the art of aimless roaming.

Matthew Barker is a Peru - based wannabe writer who combined his love of travel and writing with his career in marketing to create the Travel Content Network, an online marketplace for professional travel writers and online publishers who recognise the value of high quality writing.

The presumption — and the motivation, I'd guess — of judicial Joyce wannabes then becomes clear: they're dressing up in a deity's magic cloak (which writers should only wear in the privacy of their garrets, by the way) instead of their usual «dull sublunary» fustian.

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