Sentences with phrase «write longer works»

People who write longer works aren't just punished for having less to sell.

No, people who write longer works aren't being paid more per page.

Randomly stumbled upon this tonight and I see most of the comments are now years old... but in response to your last comment Tracy about how you know at least some writers that make $ 1,000 a day by writing longer works... out of curiosity, are these writers publishing dozens of books to get to that level or did they just find the right niche and only have to publish a few books to get to that level?

Marketing oneself requires a completely different mindset than writing a long work of fiction or non-fiction.

Glad also to know there's a growing market for short stories as I thought I'd have to shift to writing longer works: novellas or novels, which really aren't my form or at this point, my interest.

Not exact matches

It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

«DACA is dead because the Democrats didn't care or act, and now everyone wants to get onto the DACA bandwagon... No longer works,» Trump wrote on Twitter.

«The process forces employees to reflect and to jot out a forward - looking plan for getting stuff done, all while requiring a minimal disruption in the employee's actual work,» writes Chen, who adds that as employees can compose their Snippets on their own schedule, the practice is maker friendly, i.e., it doesn't break up long blocks on concentrated work.

You can find the same types of long - running disagreements across the therapeutic board in clinical trials, as I wrote about years ago in an essay for the New York Times, entitled «Do Clinical Trials Work?»

Not too long ago I wrote about «the entrepreneur's dilemma,» a clever formulation of the work - life balance tradeoffs faced by busy professionals from entrepreneur Randi Zuckerberg.

Not only is it true that «a full 20 percent of CEOs on Inc. magazine's 500 fastest - growing private companies list indicated that they continued to work a paying job long after founding their organization,» Raffiee explains in a write - up of the research, but many of our entrepreneurial icons actually waded into starting up slowly, keeping a corporate job for quite awhile while they tested the waters.

'' [M] oving our work from the laboratory to the field is not only an important milestone for our group of biologists, engineers, and automation experts, but it's also a critical step in bringing our long - term vision to reality,» Verily scientist Jacob Crawford wrote in a blog post announcing the trial.

«There is no way that five people living in 6,000 square feet, miles from work, schools, and shopping, can be «environmentally friendly» or sustainable for humanity in the long run,» one reader wrote.

Could incorporating more long - form writing into your work routine provide similar clarity about how well you understand your business?

If you find yourself writing or reading long, complex sentences at work, edit and reedit them so that they express the gist in fewer words.

Squire is shorter than a regular pen so it fits in your pocket, but long enough to work well as a writing tool.

«As long as someone apologizes well, it doesn't mean they're taking responsibility,» says Lynn Gaertner - Johnston, founder and business - writing specialist at Syntax Training who has worked with REI, Microsoft, and Russell Investments.

When the research team cross-referenced these three types of data, they found, «not all people who work long hours are workaholics, and not all workaholics work long hours,» says the Knowledge@Wharton write - up of the findings.

«There was length, there was strength, there were physical talents, but to go with them was a beautifully polished set of skills, the kind of skills that a 17 - year - old could possess only after long hours of dedicated work,» writes Lazenby.

It was a long way from the email he wrote Johnson on Dec. 7, 2011: «Amazing to me how much you've gotten done in such a short time, not to mention the quality of the work and genius of the ideas.»

In a company's «infancy,» Adizes writes, «it is normal that the founder is working long hours, does not delegate and makes all the decisions.»

«No matter what jobs you have or jobs you want, seek out the oldest people in your present company, or the people who have worked there the longest,» Spooner writes in the book.

Galen Cranz, a sociologist and professor of architecture at the University of California Berkeley who has long crusaded for more active work environments writes via e-mail: «It will take cultural change in order to make significant change.»

They wrote long business plans outlining the structure of their company before any of them knew or had tested if they had a business model that worked.

Telecommuters work the same and often longer hours when they work from home, Rogers wrote on LinkedIn, noting that «they also have higher engagement scores, lower absentee rates, lower turnover rates, and the same or higher annual performance ratings, when compared to our nontelecommuting population.»

-- Deleveraging and the reverse wealth effect: I've written in lots of places how debt bubbles, like those involving mortgages, take a lot longer to work through then equity bubbles.

«You can work long, hard or smart, but at Amazon.com you can't choose two out of three,» Mr. Bezos wrote in his 1997 letter to shareholders, when the company sold only books, and which still serves as a manifesto.

If, for instance, you're laying off someone you've worked with for a long time, «You could say, «I have written what I think is a strong recommendation for you; would you like to see it?

Yesterday one wag suggested Harper didn't actually need to deliver a speech - of - his - life, and that his ambition should be more modest: «He needs to make the generic case he would make to any audience — economy and trade — and the narrower case that works best with Conservatives — Wheat Board, long - gun registry, resource exports, crime,» this fellow wrote.

I have been practice writing a travel blog about our upcoming month long trip to France with the hubby and two sons ages 12 and 10 and your site constantly gives me little boosts to keep working toward this goal!

Periodically, I will write about dividend stocks that we purchase or own, as an example of how the dividend growth investing (DGI) strategy works, the risks that you have to deal with in pursuing the strategy and the long - term patience that DGI requires.

«More family time,» he wrote, «more focused work time without a long commute.

No one can write for you and there will always be a long line of people or circumstances to stand between you and your work — your job is write anyway.

This is too long, but I want to end with something I wrote about Moltmann's theology a while back, which is very relevant for at least 2 of the players here, who have published claiming his works as defining for them.

He joined the Duke Divinity faculty after he graduated in the early 1960s and secured tenure at a time when one still could do so without having a long résumé of works written for other academics.

I am no longer on birth control for medical reasons (higher risk of clots in my family), but when I was on it, I used it because I didn't want to get pregnant while working full time, writing full time, and living as a single woman.

You ignorant person, don't you know the bible and other religious works are written by men from a long time ago who hated women except to procreate with them and have them serve them as their slaves?

All the acts which I have done expressly to serve thee, and also all the acts which I believe to be neutral and purely human, and also all the acts which I know to be disobedience and sin, I put in thy hands, 0 God, my Lord and Savior; take them now that they are finished; prove them thyself to see which enter into thy work and which deserve only judgment and death; use, cut, trim, reset, readjust, now that it is no longer I who can decide or know, now that what is done is done, what I have written I have written.

Considering the job description, written and unwritten, of a pastor it is not unreasonable for him to make a salary equivalent to the average in his congregation but the American church has a long way to go in their tithing / stewardship mentality to make this equity arrangment work.

The actors announced their break - up on social media on Sunday night, writing that they tried to make their marriage work for a long time and are disappointed they could not succeed.

Perhaps even an invitation to write comments such as this on my own blog, not unlike the invitation to resign that I received at work not so long ago.

In Understanding Whitehead, Lowe essentially reprinted an abridged and subtly altered version of the longer article that he now regarded as quite definitive (262), but by the time Lowe wrote Alfred North Whitehead, The Man and His Work, it was the 1949 study he referred readers to (II, 178 - 179), and reminded them of the tentativeness of the conclusions.

It had been a long time since I'd worked on any kind of serious project, but I'd been thinking and writing a lot about the concept of baptism at the time, so it seemed safe to assume that if I was diligent, the other songs would steadily emerge.

Although he first worked in medieval scholasticism, by 1919 he wrote to his earlier Catholic mentor that he no longer found «the system of Catholicism» acceptable.

In 1551 he wrote to Edward VI of England about his commentaries, «In an especial manner I have resolved to devote myself to this work as long as I live, if time and place are afforded me.

It's easy to forget that it's actually hard work; writing jokes is difficult and takes a long time.

In 1837, the first editor of Washington's Collected Works wrote: «If a man who spoke, wrote, and acted as a Christian through a long life, who gave numerous proofs of his believing himself to be such, and who was never known to say, write, or do a thing contrary to his professions, if such a man is not to be ranked among the believers of Christianity, it would be impossible to establish the point by any train of reasoning.»

Doing a long series of arithmetical calculations or working all day entering data at a computer terminal may result in almost total «an - aesthesia,» while proving a new mathematical theorem or writing a complex computer program may bring about intense involvement and the enjoyment of vivid immediate experience.8 «Aesthetic» experience in the more usual sense of tile term can also y ~ ry fi - om trivial to highly intense, even when it relates to a single object; one is reminded of the cliche situation in which one member of a couple listens in rapture to a concert while the other writhes in boredom.

Now we can understand what Paul meant when he wrote, «It is no longer I but sin that works in me.»

The Glencoe series seems to suffer less from political correctness and revisionism than do some other texts, and it provides a fairly complete course in writing and literary analysis which my self - directed daughter can work through on her own during long days on the college campus.