Sentences with phrase «wannabe writers who»

They are the same wannabe writers who would not have made it traditionally publishing either.

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?

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.

Paxton is a wannabe writer who wants to go to war for the mere experience of it.

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.

Not exact matches

For decades it was dismissed as the desperate refuge of authors rejected by publishing houses, wannabes who paid a fee to a musty vanity press that would dutifully typeset their words and transform them into a few boxes of books that the «writers» could hand out to their friends.

He's a mild - mannered ad copy writer and a mediocre wannabe playwright who strives to make art.

Jean - Jacques Beineix's romance follows a wannabe writer, Zorg (Jean - Hugues Anglade), who falls for the alluring Betty (Beatrice Dalle), only for their relationship to become all - consuming.

The writer - director's characters all have them: a rebellious high school senior (Abby Quinn) flirting with boys and heroin for the first time; her soon - to - be-married sister (Jenny Slate), who questions everything after a hookup with an old flame; their mother (Edie Falco), who works around the clock and takes flak from all involved; and their father (John Turturro), a wannabe playwright who may or not be carrying on a decade - long affair (the discovery of a dirty poetry stash sends the sisters hunting for answers).

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).

And do recall that readers are the people who matter here, not some little wannabe «author» angrily shaking his fist at what amounts to a net positive change for all three groups: «authors,» «writers,» and readers.

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.

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.»

I think writers, wannabe - writers, agents, and publishing industry pros spend so much time focusing on inside baseball, and associating with others who focus on it, that they forget that most of the «regular folk» out there (i.e., the book buying public) don't have a clue who the players are behind the scenes.

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.