Sentences with phrase «with writer friends»

Last year I shared a castle with some writer friends for Nanowrimo and got featured in CNN.

My hobbies outside of writing include: biking, hiking, jogging, painting, gaming, and hanging out at the local pub with some writer friends of mine.

A dash of encouragement to share with your writer friends on Twitter?

I brainstormed with my critique group, and with writer friends.

Share with your writer friends!

On those not infrequent occasions when some of my previous publishers were making me crazy with their ineptitude on things like cover design, the bio, and various marketing issues, sure, I used to think about this kind of thing a lot, and even discussed it with some writer friends.

I forget sometimes that most writers work in a complete vacuum, with no writer friends, no one except family, who much as they care, don't always understand.

These questions come up often with writer friends who are considering indie or hybrid publishing.

At the time I wrote that post, I was in dialogue with a writer friend who is well - acquainted with the angst I expressed.

I recently had a wonderful, erudite email discussion with my writer friend Bryan Russell about self - publishing, traditional - publishing, craft, marketing, and a zillion other fascinating things.

I recently exchanged my manuscript with a writer friend who also had a novel she wanted me to read.

Not exact matches

Notably, Rogers became close friends with writer Mark Twain after he helping him reorganize his finances.

«I was discussing this with a friend, writer Phyllis Eisenstein — I dedicated the third book to her — and she said, «George, it's a fantasy — you've got to put in the dragons.»

Professional writers might not be able to get away with this one with all editors and for all audiences (and anyway, it's their job to find ways around the trouble), but for your average email or work memo, go ahead and write «Tell your friend they can call me,» when you don't know the gender of the friend.

-- > Dealing with rejection from family, friends, and publishers (A writer who can't deal with rejection is like a surfboard who can't deal with water.)

Of course there are other reasons for my sporadic blogging this year: a surprise new baby coming which completely disoriented us, a new book to finish writing (and I will share all about that in January), travelling and speaking all over North America, stewarding the message of Jesus Feminist throughout her first year of life, creating the Jesus Feminist collection with Imagine Goods, a trip to Haiti, new opportunities as a writer, three tinies at home with their own lives and drama and growth and change, remodelling parts of our home, marriage, church, friends, life, work, laundry (oh, can we talk laundry?!)

In sum, our reporter friend and those like him should not feel guilty about agreeing with Steele, Loury, Crouch, and other writers who are waking us up to the disastrous consequences of policies promoted under the banner of «civil rights.»

Before he became friends with fellow writer C.S. Lewis and help create the Inklings writers» group, Tolkien fought in World War I and later assisted the Allies as a code - breaker during World War II.

One of these dubious deterministic friends of religion is a former student of mine named Huston Smith, a pleasant, likeable person, who enjoys his complex view, in which he finds places for a number of recent writers, though he knows how little some of us agree with it.

Lasting Grace: A Celebration of the Life & Work of Brian Doyle Thursday, September 21 All are welcome to a celebration of the life and work of writer and friend Brian Doyle with reflections from David James Duncan, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, and several others.

I debated whether to engage a post that is just as disturbing as the title suggests, but after speaking with an editor and several writers at The Gospel Coalition, as well as some of my gay and lesbian friends, I've decided it's important to offer an alternative to the attitude presented in this post and, perhaps more importantly, to explore / discuss how Christians ought to respond when we encounter homophobia in our own faith communities.

I want to treat their stories with great care, not as an American (note: okay, Canadian here) writer with a laptop but as a sister and friend and advocate.

Certain of her correspondence, particularly a series of letters to her friend Maryat Lee withheld from publication until 1994, exposes a disturbing facet of her identity as a mid-century white Southerner: a taste for racial jokes and a visceral distaste for the very blackness of black people which seems irreparably out of joint with her identity as a believing Roman Catholic and a writer of theology - driven fiction.

A writer friend of mine recently confessed that she floundered a bit in writing her memoir because she felt pressure from her girlfriends to write with an inspirational tone more characteristic of Beth Moore or Stasi Eldredge than Donald Miller.

Since then we've exchanged numerous emails, most of which are just me gushing over the beauty of a book she's been working on, and I was only too thrilled to organize a blog hop with some of our fellow food writer friends in an effort to spread the word about her crave - worthy creation.

Rachel Eats Rachel Roddy, a wry British writer living in Rome, pairs Italian recipes with conversational, engaging narratives that make you feel like you're cooking with a friend.

It's tradition for me to fly out to Vegas every Fall to spend quality girl time with my dear friend / beauty professional / plant - based nutritionist / writer, Ashley Diana, and to collaborate on some fun Halloween recipes!

LUSTER AND LUCRE Sirs: A tennis friend of mine has complained of the injustice of your writer describing the play at the National Singles as «lackluster» (Low Point for Tennis, Sept. 19), and I must agree with him.

I recently went out for non-drinks with a pregnant writer friend, who is understandably concerned that motherhood will ruin her life.

However, and more importantly, BlogHer — and the ability to connect in real life with so many talented writers and friends whose work I admire — only comes around once a year and I want to be present in the moment while I'm there, not holed up in my hotel room posting and moderating comments.

Thinker, writer, and occasional troublemaker raising another generation of righteous troublemakers with her best friend.

Today, through a fellow writer friend I discovered you and your beautiful world with T. I too am a writer, married to a music man, with a child who came to us through adoption.

I was invited to participate in a review and discussion of the memoir Finding Zoe: A Deaf Woman's Story of Identity, Love, and Adoption with several other open adoption writers / bloggers by my friend and colleague Lori Holden.

becoming a social worker with a Masters Degree, wife to a dear husband with disabilities, foster mother, friend, artist, writer, volunteer, traveler.

Then my writer friend Jenny Johnson recently pointed me to the Planet Box, an eco-friendly stainless steel lunch box with little bento - box like compartments that eliminate the need to package each individual item in the lunch.

She can work with friends or siblings or you to make scenery and collaborate with fellow writers or work on her own to bring a story to life and perform it for an audience when she's done.

I remember reading a chapter about that once... the writer said that it's even harder for those of us who identify ourselves as attachment parents, those of us who've read all of those books and who've talked with our friends about wanting to be the best parent possible.

I'm so excited to be able to officially announce the Dads4Kesem Hadrian's Wall Walk in July 2016, when I'll be joining 11 other dad bloggers, writers, and influencers, as we walk together to raise funds for a new Camp Kesem chapter at the University of Maryland in honor of my friend Oren Miller, who lost his battle with cancer last year.

Sean Hoare, a legendary showbiz writer, told the New York Times, that Coulson, who was then a close friend, had actively encouraged him to hack voicemail and had listened to message with him.

And today the Post printed a very specific piece of hearsay, which writers acknowledge is «unsubstantiated,» twice on the same page of the paper: that «Paterson was late arriving at the scene of last February's tragic air crash outside Buffalo because he was supposedly preoccupied with a local lady friend.»

(The week after I visited him in Iowa City, Damasio was a keynote speaker at a conference with the poet Jorie Graham, a longtime friend from her days at the Iowa Writers» Workshop.)

And yeah, I think the problem — well, one of the problems with these sort of radical interpretations is that, you know, we tend to forget that Shakespeare was a businessman and a writer, and he was trying to write plays that would hold peoples» attention, that would get them coming back to the theater for a repeat viewing, that would get them to tell their friends what a great play it was.

When I caught my breath, I found my new running - writer friend, and we hung out, dancing to the music from the main stage and toasting our finish with coconut water sipped straight from its freshly chopped source.

Two years ago, my dear friend Elena Brower saved me from a situation that was sabotaging my light, and she gifted me a journal with an inscription by the beautiful writer Anaïs Nin.

I've teamed up with Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, Health Writer, Fitness Blogger and my friend, Brit Williams to create an eBook packed full of workouts and recipes.

I am now a member of the Ethical Writers Coalition and have connected with dozens of designers, like - minded friends, and bloggers who share similar values.

A freelance writer with lots of friends and an active social life, she rarely checks her stove these days — but it wasnt always so.

On Saturday, I made a trip to Birmingham with Parker the writer of Fast Foodie US who also happens to be one of my best friends and sorority sisters for the Birmingham Bloggers brunch!

Some of them are part of my life (my sister, my family of friends, my university professors, ladies I collaborate with) and others part of me forever (my mother and grandmother); and then there are also those who I have never actually met, but make an impact all the same: inspiring food bloggers and photographers whose work and kindness I admire and aspire to, poets and activists, comedians and writers who make me feel so damn proud to be a woman.

I am friends with a 19 year old song writer in Portland, a farmer's wife in Wisconsin, a Diva in North Carolina... people I never would have hear of otherwise if not for blogging.