Sentences with phrase «writer friend worked»

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McDowell directed the other Pine Bros. ads made by the brand's in - house team but decided to recruit his friend Fred Wolf, a comedy writer and director whose work also includes «Grown Ups» and «The Chevy Chase Show.»

Having proved his ability to handle crystal ball work, Buffett, 86, was asked by this writer — an 87 - year - old friend of his — whether he might care to make a prediction about total returns over the 17 years starting now and ending late in 2033.

The company I worked for nearly went out of business, and a friend offered me a job as a writer for a content service at $ 15 a page — and I thought it was marvelous.

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.

FRIENDS is a Brooklyn - based coworking community and the work home to 35 creatives — designers, filmmakers, writers, illustrators, developers, photographers, and people doing generally awesome (creative) work.

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?!)

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 othWork 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 othwork of writer and friend Brian Doyle with reflections from David James Duncan, Barry Lopez, Kim Stafford, and several others.

My friend didn't spill the beans on any specifics, but perhaps that explains why so many Christian songs sound like they maybe started out as a run - of - the - mill love song before the writer realized that by adding a few references to Heaven, this could work as a pretty decent worship song.

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

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.

just before I went to sit in the Letterman green room, my fantastically courageous and brilliant friend Nell Scovell published this article in Vanity Fair about the unfriendly attitude toward women writers in late - night - tv and particularly the hostile work environment at (you guessed it) good ol' Dave's.

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.

Through stories (Tracey's + guest writers), accessible instructions (think of it as a friend telling you how to work your camera vs. said boring camera manual), and plenty of beautiful visual examples, Tracey helps you figure out how to use your camera, then find and capture the beauty in everyday moments.

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.

Livermore and Alexander had instituted a «quarterly look - ahead» meeting, at which grand strategic matters were discussed among a senior group that included Greg Beales, Tom Baldwin, Stewart Wood, Torsten Bell, the head of strategy, and Marc Stears, a close friend of Miliband's from university who worked as a speech writer.

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.

Not only does working out of a coffee shop help stimulate creativity and combat writer's block (which I fall victim to every now and then), but it allows me to see friends and meet new people.

The brand's story began more than 15 years ago, when the founder, Miranda, a freelance writer and traveler, made friends with people working in the wedding industry who shared her interests for art and beauty.

About Blog Writer of this blog, Aishwarya Mohan Gahrana is Practicing Company Secretary and Insolvency Professional working with M / s Aishwarya M Gahrana & Associates, a New Delhi based peer reviewed firm of company secretaries having pan India presence through friends and associates.

Enough Said is a romantic comedy - drama from Nicole Holofcener, the writer - director of other critically acclaimed films exploring the daily travails of mostly upper middle - class affluent women (and men) in such as Lovely & Amazing and Friends with Money — something that invites comparisons to the works of Woody Allen often.

The writer of «Wreck - It Ralph» and «Cedar Rapids,» who's working with Sacha Baron Cohen on a spy comedy that's in development, is a dear friend of ours from our days in Brooklyn over a decade ago.

Containing engaging interviews with Didion fans and friends including Calvin Trillin, David Hare and Hilton Als, «Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold» does that thing that the best documentaries about writers to: it makes you want to return to its subject's work as soon as possible.

Director J Blakeson, working from a script credited to some heavy - hitting veteran writers (Akiva Goldsman, Susannah Grant and Jeff Pinkner), quickly establishes that Moretz's Cassie used to be a pretty average teenage girl in an idyllic Ohio town: soccer practice, keggers, a wisecracking best friend, an adorable younger brother (Zackary Arthur) and loving parents (Ron Livingston and Maggie Siff).

In «Band Aid,» Anna (writer / director / producer / star Zoe Lister - Jones) and Ben (Adam Pally) flounder around, work dead - end jobs and watch their friends mature, have kids, find career success and otherwise hit typical markers of a successful life.

Starring Joseph Cotten and Orson Welles, the film follows writer Holly Martins (Cotten) who works to unravel the mystery behind the assumed death of his friend Harry Lime (Welles), finding romance, mystery and intrigue along the way.

Later, when Lee becomes a writer in Interzone, the transformations become even more dense and metaphorical: typewriters, for example, become talking cockroaches or Mugwumps (a Burroughs beastie that the film works wonders with, in New York and Interzone alike), functioning variously as Ugly Spirits, muses, prophets, psychiatrists, lovers, friends, bosses, and drug dispensers, so that writing, sex, and drugs become virtually interchangeable.

According to former LA Weekly film critic April Wolfe (who, full disclosure, is a friend and professional acquaintance of this writer), that story may already be in the works.

Writer - director Holofcenter (Lovely & Amazing, Walking and Talking) continues her fine work making womancentric films with Friends with Money, a few weeks in the travails of four women at a crossroads in their lives, relationships, and careers.

Make friends with other writers, learn from their trials and hardships, get advice on things you're struggling with (but don't expect them to do the work for you).

I wonder, though, how often a self - published writer has a day like my friend Jay had today — and he knows we're going to work with him to make certain his finest literary days are still ahead of him.

Jane Friedman, former publisher of Writer's Digest (whom I worked with, and remains a good friend), pretty effectively dismantled that notion last year in her smart essay, «The Future of Self - Publishing Services ``:

Particularly when any written work is swamped by tens of thousands of books that in another time would only ever be bought by friends and family — purely out of charity for the writer and the knowledge that once all those short - run books are no longer clogging up the author's parent's garage, the parents might actually be able to park their car undercover again.

Honestly, substantive editing is so expensive (thousands of dollars), that, as a self - publishing author, you're probably better off finding a workshop and / or good beta readers (other writers, not friends / family) to critique your work.

The list is populated not only by that writer's work but the books of all his fellow writers who he counts as friends.

Talk to your friends and other working writers about their experiences.

My CFO friend was back a month ago at another workshop and he had worked out a seemingly simple sorting method through Excel, and he walked me through it on a white board with about fifteen other writers watching, and I have yet been able to duplicate it because it was so complex and I'm not great at Excel.

Writing is how you improve your craft — by doing a whole lot of it, by reading, by having your work read by friends and family and by other writers and by editors.

I may just be one of those writers who has to be happy if family and friends get to read my work.

A good, rich, encouraging response from those friends on Wattpad or in other places, of course, can be expected to lead some writers to consider self - publishing their work.

I have so many writing friends forcing themselves to work through upheaval simply because they think that's what writers do.

I attended various writing conferences, but since I am relatively introverted and take time to make trusted friends, I didn't come away with lots of writer friends to exchange work with.

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.

Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked.

Are these authors so unconnected in the writing world that they don't have other writer friends who are grammar Nazis and good editors with whom they can trade work to get it cleaned up and edited?

That solution might work great for us — many writers find lifelong friends that way — but it might also leave us open to harsh criticism from those who don't know our genre or care about our feelings.

Kit Raine, an American writer living in Tuscany, is working on a biography of her close friend, a complex woman who continues to cast a shadow on Kit's own life.

Finally, as I was telling a friend the other day, I'm desperate to see more white writers exploring whiteness in their work.

When my writer friends are working, they feel better and more alive than they do at any other time.

A love of reading that began in childhood fueled a deep respect for writers, and a dedication to being a friend, fan, coach, advocate and champion of their work.

I've had to do follow up edits for writers that had «Sure, I can edit» friends look at their work.