Sentences with phrase «what kind of fiction»

If you don't have a book yet, that's perfectly fine, but you should still have some information about what kind of fiction you write, your current work - in - project, etc..

Not exact matches

That jibes with what Stewart suggests, that certain kinds of books — genre stuff like fan fiction or romance — work better digitally, but print is still a more desirable way to digest the really good meaty writing.

In his fiction, the church exists on the periphery of the community's fellowship, and exhibits what philosopher Norman Wirzba calls a «disincarnate form of Christianity,» a kind of gnosticism, isolated and disconnected from where the people live their lives during the week.

Offering up what he concedes is a «science fiction kind of idea,» Silva wonders if physicians treating patients with Alzheimer's «could direct memories to those regions of the brain that remain strong.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Given that the film is set in 1965, what kind of science - fiction would you say she's reading?

In his one - of - a-kind fiction / documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making.

This is the kind of thing you'd expect on a women's cable network movie - of - the - week, and screenwriter Allison Burnett (working from, what I've heard, a more meta - fictional novel by Charles Baxter; this kind of circumstantial plotting might actually work as meta - fiction) takes a kind of dopey sincerity about the whole thing.

But we decided not to do what we did with HOT FUZZ, which was to watch a lot of films, because we decided we didn't need to learn any kind of language of cinema — we weren't going to make any comments about science fiction or make any references to other films.

All we know so far is that the movie is going to be some kind of science fiction film, but what could it be about?

He means well — that trope of all kinds of fiction — what with his quest to rescue the fair maiden from a terrible tyrant and then make her his grateful bride.

Thing about what kind of series you can offer (for fiction writers, can you serialize a short story — 5,000 words a week?

It's actually really hard to write fiction; it's very rewarding, and I like to measure my life by what I create — that's kind of what I feel is my life now.

I think it's fair to say that's what a fiction writer is most often drawn to — tumult of one kind or another; and in that sense the family in the last quarter century seems to me to be among the most fascinating of human social or economic inventions — more than business or real estate, no matter what Tom Wolfe says, more than the church or the law or the hospital.

An intriguing description of the kind of fiction or nonfiction you write, as well as what the reader can hope to learn or experience by reading your books.

So what kind of a year has it been in crime fiction?

We have a special love of short books — novella - length fiction and the kinds of essays you can still find in the pages of The New Yorker but not too many other places — and edgy topics, but what we love most are good books that might not see the light of day if it were not for LLP.

I was a participant in Platt and Truant's initial «Fiction Unboxed» project last year, so I kind of knew what to expect from this audiobook.

What kinds of emails to send, even if you write fiction.

A while back, I distributed an email asking what you all thought about the idea of putting together a kind of guide or e-book or SOMETHING to explore how independent writers could more effectively sell their works of literary fiction.

With this monopoly or near - monopoly they can dictate terms to publishers or dictate what gets published: Amazon is great at selling certain kinds of books but not others (trade paperbacks, lit fiction that needs «discovery»; mid list from writers who lack a social media or publicity «platform»), and the more Amazon dominates the market, the less viable it becomes to publish books in those categories.

Although I haven't let her words deter me from writing what I love and feel most inspired to write, they have called into question the kind of fiction readers are craving these days.

All of my reading falls in two categories: books (fiction / non-fiction) what have you, and papers, as in the kind that gets accepted by conferences.

This is perhaps what frustrates people the most about Franzen, especially when this kind of baseless moralizing enters the realm of his fiction.