Sentences with phrase «with writing friends»

But if a quick check in with writing friends (maybe with some of your favorite Facebook groups) doesn't get your spirit up, there may be something else going on.

It's through the internet that I stay in touch with my writing friends, and my critique partners — most of whom are located on the other side of the world.

But judging from the online conversations I had with writing friends over the past couple of days, it certainly feels that way to many of us.

I'm returning as a mentor, this time with my writing friend Valerie Cole.

Not exact matches

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

«We should place these feelings at the center of our lives and let them be the catalysts for a sustained exploration that continues throughout the week, over months and probably years, and that generates conversations with ourselves, with friends, mentors and with professionals,» he writes, warning us that «something very serious is going on when sadness and anxiety descend for a few hours on Sunday evenings.»

«HEPs listen hard to others and do all they can to grasp their emotional state and needs, whether it is a friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer or a spouse who is upset at them for working late yet again,» he writes, adding, «but listening is never enough.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

The only time I've had a job that did was when I had to do little work so that I had time on the side to either write, or start a business, or have fun, or spend time with friends.

On the iDoneThis blog personal productivity coach Natalie M. Houston offers an alternative type of social break: «Write a note to an old friend you haven't been in touch with recently.»

On Quora, he recently wrote that he planned to start working on coding projects with a friend, Evan Wallace.

Release an explainer video that relates to your business or a humorous video they'll want to share with friends (think Old Spice or Dollar Shave Club's spots), an infographic that educates consumers about a pertinent issue, or a blog post written by your CEO that contains industry insights.

If it's just too painful or difficult to raise the subject with your friend, try writing a letter, but don't send it to them.

Sacca wrote that they are «competitive good friends,» but that everyone was generous and warm with him.

On day nine, he had thousands of views and friends of friends were sharing it with him, not knowing he'd wrote it.

The Women's March is an example of this, where a grandmother with an internet connection wrote a post that led her friends to start a Facebook event that eventually turned into millions of people marching in cities around the world.

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

Then, if you end up finding a teen - friendly bank, be sure to write a carefully worded letter to the bank that said no, letting them know that not only did you find a different bank to do business with, but you are recommending it to all your friends, who also want checking accounts of their own (business checking or otherwise).

It worked: Dollar Shave Club's YouTube pitch, which Dubin wrote himself and filmed with the help of director friend Lucia Aniello, racked up nearly 10 million views on YouTube.

«I will probably feel... upset as my social life will be totally stopped if I can not used Facebook and can not find my friends in Facebook, I will also feel like left behind as I will not be able to know what has happened with my Facebook friends in the coming five days,» wrote one participant.

«For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family,» Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page at the time.

«Compared with the accuracy of various human judges reported in the meta - analysis, computer models need 10, 70, 150, and 300 Likes, respectively, to outperform an average work colleague, cohabitant or friend, family member, and spouse,» they wrote, which you can see in the below chart.

A friend who has been around tech almost as long as I have wrote the other afternoon with a question.

One interesting bit of research I came across is that a study found a 33 percent increase in the completion of goals among those who wrote their goals down, created an action plan and shared with a friend.

«Act with fortitude and honor,» Alexander Hamilton once wrote to a distraught friend in serious financial and legal trouble of the man's own making.

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.

Wrote one reviewer: «Everyone at Bain is the type of person you'd want to be friends with and go hang out with on a Saturday night.»

It turned out the person wasn't, but she was a friend of Harding's and because the woman was familiar with Rogers» writing credits she connected him with Harding.

Because of this, we've learned to love the solitude and to come up with ways to fill the silence, whether that be having imaginary friends, turning to writing or art, or another outlet for expression.

With his good friend Paul Allen, who was working at Honeywell Inc.'s Boston facilities, he began writing a programming language.

«The use of the medicines in lethal injections runs counter to the manufacturers» mission to save and enhance patients» lives, and carries with it not only a public - health risk, but also reputational, fiscal and legal risks,» wrote the companies in a friend of the court filing.

Bricklin got together with an old friend, Bob Frankston, who knew more about programming, and the two started a company called Software Arts Inc. (See «Software Arts wrote the first best - seller,» page 71.)

As media and technology scholar Zeynep Tufekci writes on Medium, «You are seeing fewer news items that you'd disagree with which are shared by your friends because the algorithm is not showing them to you.»

The Macro Man blog is written by Team Macro Man, a very small group of friends who are market participants with varied backgrounds are across asset classes, geographies, roles and institutions.

That while my friends got drunk, did stupid tourist tricks and ate at greasy spoons, I sat by the pool on the 1 chaise lounge chair with rust on the clean side and wrote up my businessplan.

«President Xi and I will always be friends, no matter what happens with our dispute on trade,» Trump wrote.

«[T] his means that not the data subject but «friends» of the data subject are consenting to the use of personal data,» wrote Schrems in the 2011 complaint, fleshing out consent concerns with Facebook's friends» data API.

I actually wrote this because I kept getting friends asking me to help them with their AdWords accounts lol.

«For years, we've focused on building the best experience for sharing photos with your friends and family,» Mr. Zuckerberg wrote.

Two years ago this week I wrote «The Road to a New Medical Order» with my friend and personal physician, Dr. Mike Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic.

There was no shortage of creativity in our fundraising efforts, which included partnerships with Denver restaurants and shops, such as Chick Fil A and Alex and Ani, a wine party for friends and family with tickets and raffles, spirit week at Denver schools, as well as email and letter writing campaigns directly to prospective donors.

That's enough time to reply lots of emails, write a guest post, do a Facebook live, send tons of reach outs, cold emails and also enough to spend with your family and friends.

Paul - Martin Foss, our good friend at the Carl Menger Center, wrote a very nice post a few days ago concerning how the Fed may be getting itself tangled - up in an impending Greek default, through its swap lines with the ECB.

She loves writing for her own personal beauty, fashion, and fitness lifestyle blog, volunteering for a local dog rescue, traveling, and spending time with family and friends.

«In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the U.S. — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica by apps that they or their friends used,» Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer wrote in a blog post Wednesday.

In a 2014 news release announcing new restrictions to its developer policies, a Facebook executive wrote, «We've heard from people that they are often surprised when a friend shares their information with an app.»

Instead, it comes from connecting with the world and getting away from yourself, as when you enjoy time with friends, family, and children, are engaged at work, or do all - absorbing tasks such as art, writing, crafts, athletics, or helping others.»

I lost three months of sleep over this with my first novel (The Almost True Story Of Ryan Fisher) because in the middle of writing it, Ted Haggard, my senior pastor and friend — he even officiated my wedding — had a story break that made it into national headlines.

♦ A friend wrote, taking issue with my characterization of Rush Limbaugh as someone who has «made his career by denouncing people.»

It's a fictional account of his conversion that he wrote over a holiday visit with his childhood best friend.