Even the most successful, prolific writers I know don't work seven days a week, fifty - two weeks a year.
And most indie writers I know don't know how to use an exclusive sale correctly.
Most
writers I know do about 4 pages in an hour, so that means you need to spend generously 1.5 hours per day writing to be making a living with your writing in five years.
Most picture book writers I know don't post their stories on their blogs because of intellectual property issues.
And I have to say, the majority of writers I know don't have the money to spend $ 100 to $ 500 on webinars and seminars and conferences which often mold them into a «Strunk and White's» colorless automaton.
Not exact matches
Translation scholar Peter Newmark explains that the translator has a duty to be faithful to the speaker or
writer only in as far as their words
do not conflict with material and moral facts as
known - and they can express dissent if the text is likely to mislead the receiving audience.
On Memorial Day weekend, Moghadam called his cofounders to let them
know he'd heard from a
writer at Gawker who was
doing a post on his annotations.
We don't
know if the
writers below wanted to lead others, so they may have achieved other goals.
On making a good impression when you're new to an organization «If you're new in a
writer's room, and you don't
know what to
do or say: One, be the person who holds the marker and stands at the board.
EASTWOOD: And so I... Just through that I got story ideas and I called up Paul Haggis and I said, you
know, I can't afford you Paul as a
writer but I said
do you have any students?
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.
But the comedian
knew he was poking a bear: When his
writers reached out to Murray Energy for comment, the company sent a letter instructing the show to «cease and desist from any effort to defame, harass, or otherwise injure Mr. Murray or Murray Energy» and added that «failure to
do so will result in immediate litigation.»
«It might seem like I built my business overnight, but what people don't
know is that on the marketing side, It took me years of building a network of food
writers, chefs, magazine editors, and other people in the industry,» echoes Luuvu Hoang, founder of Txiki Plaka restaurant.
Watching the election returns, we were reminded of the quote attributed to the American
writer Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens): «It ain't what you don't
know that gets you into trouble.
Online, my social - media universe was filled with journalists and Jewish communal professionals, rabbis and professors and nonprofit workers, all of whom
knew that a Tablet
writer had said something offensive about the Harvey Weinstein case — but outside my front door, I encountered people who didn't inhabit my social - media universe.
response > So, is it
writer's block if I don't
know where to begin after all this time.
«The audience didn't
know what to make of it,» recalls Jim Downey, a former Saturday Night Live
writer watching in the audience that night.
The only thing I
do know is that if the market starts to breakdown anytime leading up to or within the August through October period there will be at least one market blog
writer taking some serious defensive action.
Did you
know that
writers are blessed with passive income over their lifetime?
I am happy that the
writer had the choices that she
did... She is also free to decide whether or not she is a Catholic... She however, took an available medication for a health problem... most Catholic facilities recognize such health problems and allow for that treatment... I am completly puzzled, though, that she would not want other Catholics to be able to choose differently than she
did... for those people who wish to use contraceptive services and medication, options are open to them... I am not Catholic,
did not grow up in a faith based family, and don't
know whether a God exists or not... However, to leave a relgious group with no option but to contradict its own tenets is an attempt by those who don't believe in those tenents to mock them, certainly, but more to erode them... this seems the aim of many and when those folks operate from inside the government... that intrusion is an overreach of the govenrment...
I really felt the meaning of your writing, and I can't imagine a
writer who doesn't feel satisfied to
know this.
Think of what we learn from the stories of Flannery O'Connor, a lesser
writer than Twain, certainly, but one who
knew something very important about the world he didn't.
How
did Moses, the
writer of Genesis,
know that?
writer of article says the minute Judas
knew what he had
done he felt remorse.
Although we've
known one anoehtr for many years and have worked together on numerous stories you as
writer, I as publicist I didn't realize the scope of your writing career until now!
the
writer of this article is an idiot and he is not educated and
does not have a brain because he has written it with out having any info about it.thats why little knowledge is dangerous.if he
does nt
know some thing then he is better off not writing things he
does not
know about
Good
writers convey the unknown by showing us what we
know — and using that to explain what we don't
know.»
And we have all watched you boldly take the way of abundance —
no matter how it seemed like it didn't matter — because God makes meaning out of messes, because He is the God who can make all our brokenness into abundance, because, you and I say this back to each other over and over again: The
Writer of the story has written Himself into the hardest places of yours and is softening the broken edges of everything with redeeming, abundant grace.»
I
do a lot of speaking and I meet a lot of the
writers we all look up to and you
know what I have learned?
There are a lot of factors that show up and I don't
know about you but if I had to read one more article that talks about how a
writer had taken three months off in a cabin in the woods or how they required zero interruptions or had a solitary fellowship or months in a monastery, I was ready to cry.
while the
writer has little knowledge of the bible, he is also greatly lacking what he should
know to write such a article, the laws give to people of all walks of life is the commandments given by moses, religion
does not have anything to
do with goverments laws or rulings, he told us straight the one law that there is no forgiveness for is murder, rulers and goverments take it upon themselves to make the decision whether to go to war, or if a person should be put to death, as far as jesus and the apostles are concerned thier labours was a work of love and true humanitarian towards all peoples, races, religions, they never asked for anything for themselves, and they never took from one to give to another.
Maybe we've evolved intellectually and
no longer believe that God doesn't to people — maybe he never
did and the
writers of this tome called the bible were trying to gat a Pulitzer.
The
writer of this Psalm loved to worship God, and
knew that there was nothing greater that we can
do.
The
writers of the bible started the trend thousands of years ago but
did not expect their musings to be taken as the Truth, who
knew that people would buy this nonsense.
Earlier, nothing was
known about it except the fact that it was used by several heretical groups such as the Naassenes; some church
writers denounced it but
did not describe it.
Science may tell us much that the biblical
writers did not
know about the processes by which God continually fashions an unfinished world, but it can not go beyond the great truth stated in Genesis 1:1, «In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.»
Mr article
writer, according to the Bible the man who killed all those kids
did not
know God.
Those who wrote them, being believers, theologians, and preachers themselves, were seeking to make God and godliness
known to their original envisaged audience, and the first question to be asked about each book has to
do with what its
writer saw it as saying and showing about God himself.
As a successful professional editor she
knew (and only a few professionals
do not
know) better than to try to change the style of an already good
writer into someone else's style, for example, the editor's, or to make it accord with a rule open to occasional reasonable exceptions.
How
did the
writer of Ecclesiastes
know the water cycle of condensation and evaporation in 1000 B.C.?
If the
writer wrote, «I
know you hate me and feel uncomfortable around me, but I love you anyway because of how much undeserved love I've found in Christ,» that would be much more Christian than, «Let me tell you all the ways you annoy me and everything you're
doing wrong.»
I don't
know that I can offer any real good advice for new
writers except that write what you have a passion for.
How
did the
writer of Proverbs
know that — 3000 years ahead?
-- forgetting that ancient religious
writers, unlike scholarly historians,
did not as a rule feel it incumbent upon them to give, in a footnote or otherwise, their source for every anecdote or event, or to anticipate the modern reader's constant query, «How can we
know that what you say is true, in every detail?»
Matthew
knew what John
knew — John
did not have a higher evolution of understanding of who Jesus claimed to be than the other apostles — it is just in the wisdom of God as He used each
writer to convey understanding to the folks who received the letters and for our benefit in the ages to come that Matthew focuses on different things than John.
The
writer of this article obviously
does not
know what he is talking about.
I have since wondered if some of those
writers of moral tales for youth
knew just what they were
doing.
Why would Plato, who as a
writer obviously
knows what he is
doing, use such an artificial means to end his dialogue?
How
did the
writer of Ecclesiastes
know the water cycle of condensation and evaporation?
In the same vain, to say that GWB spoke «Christianity» (it was his
writer that put that phrase in) made him «one of us Christian's is ludicrous — like the Pharisees, he doesn't
know how to «walk the walk» and live what he claims to be is his Faith.