Sentences with phrase «writers feel better»

But though some vanity publishers do occasionally offer non-fee contracts, such promises are far more likely to be marketing ploys intended to make writers feel better about handing over large sums of cash.
If anything, to make writers feel better about piracy, they can look upon it as a form of advertising, even if not one of which they particularly approve.»
When I was reading this, it definitely occurred to me that talking about the evils of editors and «cookie cutter» manuscripts might have been a way to make the writer feel better if she was having secret doubts about self - publishing.

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We have this feeling that since we are not good writers now, we can not become good writers.
«When one feels writer's block, it's good to just keep putting things down on paper — ideas, knowledge, etc.»» Konnikova reports author Scott Barry Kaufman as recommending.
Zeus and Osiris may not be the best examples of gods that could incite the same feelings as the writer had when he implied that God is not offended by the disorder of our minds etc..
Heidi said «Zeus and Osiris may not be the best examples of gods that could incite the same feelings as the writer had when he implied that God is not offended by the disorder of our minds etc..
'' Putting Parents in Charge» is one of those feel «good statements that a writer knows one can not refute without sounding like an unreasonable extremist.
The best chapters in this book recount O'Connor's time at the Iowa Writers» Workshop and later at Yaddo, where she met Robert Lowell (to whom she may have felt a romantic attachment) and her editor, Robert Giroux.
The writer of an unsigned article in The New Yorker, describing a feeling experienced at the funeral of a friend whose long and happy life had been spent as a wife and mother, caught it well:
Many Catholic writers who admit that the times have changed in this respect do so resignedly; and even add that perhaps it is as well not to waste feelings in regretting the matter, for to return to the heroic corporeal discipline of ancient days might be an extravagance.
In both writers this was an intellectual mistake as well as a mistake of feeling.
The Writers criticism of supporters waving WENGER OUT BANNERS is wrong.Supporters have every right to show their contempt of this man who has now made himself the point of ridicule and a laughing stock within the football world.Im talking opposition supporters, tv and press as well as the ever increasing majority of the Arsenal Fanbase.Who ever wrote this article has misjudged the mood of the support and is badly mistaken if he feels his comments will carry any credibility.How many WENGER IN banners are held up each match?The only chants for Wenger to stay are from our opponents fans.Of course they want him to stay.Why wouldn't they?
I feel competent people want wenger in or atleast let him finish his contract this writer wrote facts were winning silverware and no matter what we win or how far we make it the wenger outs just need that negative element to feed they make it obvious when they have no facts to stand on oyher than we lost a final that we beat last years champions to get into and lost to this years champion who have been the best team in england not much to stand on
I might not be a writer myself but I feel the content in the articles are «usually pretty good» (some writers ofcourse) but the titles just blows people off and others rush into comments reacting directly to the title rather than the issues raised.
The delightful Paul Myers played us some songs and I was humbled and inspired by Elissa Schappell's reading (which is the best way to feel when watching another writer read.)
Stacey Ferguson, Justice Fergie [«Cheer for Your Cheerleaders»] Kristin Shaw, Two Cannoli [«You Know Your Child Best»] Aviva Goldfarb, The Scramble [«Always the Potential for Good»] Margo Porras, Nacho Mama [«Your Kids Will Do What You Do»] Emily McKhann, The Motherhood [«You Are Courageous»] Jane Maynard, This Week for Dinner [«Savor Even the Hard Seconds»] Mary Ann Zoellner, producer at NBC's TODAY [«Play Like a Dad»] Lian Dolan, Oprah.com [«Life is Serious Enough»] Maria Bailey, Mom Talk Radio [«Take Time to Celebrate You»] Christie Matheson, Stroller Traffic [«Nothing Better Than Coming Home»] Carla Naumburg, Psychcentral.com [«You Are Not Your Thoughts»] Jenny Lee Sulpizio, JennyLeeSulpizio.com [«I'm Not Above Mom Jeans»] Kimberly Coleman, Foodie City Mom [«Follow Your Own Inner Voice»] Missy Stevens, Wonder, Friend [«Nice Things Are Still Just Things»] Rachel Jankovic, Femina Girls [«It's Not Supposed to Be Easy»] Megan Brooks, Texas Health Moms [«The Love Language of Listening»] Carissa Rogers, Good N Crazy [«Here's to Embracing Change»] Dina Freeman, BabyCenter [«Learn to Swim in the Deep End»] Elizabeth Grant Thomas, Elizabethgrantthomas.com [«It's Easier to See Light in Darkness»] Wendy Hilton, Hip Homeschool Moms [«They Want to Make Us Happy»] Renée Schuls - Jacobson, Rasjacobson.com [«Beware of Emotional Vampires»] Shannon Lell, ShannonLell.com [«Don't Be Afraid to Sparkle»] Bunmi Laditan, Honest Toddler [«What Makes You a Writer»] Erin Dymoski, Sisterhood of the Sensible Moms [«What I'd Tell My Younger Self»] Lyss Stern, Divamoms.com [«Those Who Matter Don't Mind»] Debra Shigley, In Deb's Kitchen [«Feeling Bad?
In my lectures, I used a LOT of Michael Pollan and Mark Bittman, mostly because I felt like it was important to introduce students to some of the very public writers about food and politics, and I threw in several of Bittman's NY Times posts as they appeared as well.
Not only is there an appetite for it, but I think it'd also be incredibly cathartic for the writers and performers as well as being the perfect antidote to balancing out the constant chaos and anxiety we feel with every news update.
If you use jargon in a way that causes your reader to feel uneducated or out - of - the - loop, it may keep you from being well - liked as a writer.
In his new book Suggestible You, science writer Vance opens our innate mental medicine cabinet to look at the placebo effect — or what happens when a person receives a fake treatment and feels better just the same.
Now Ms. Rapp is one of the best writers, living or dead, I have come across so when I am around her, well, I feel more like a real writer.
Michelle Kirsch is a transformational coach & writer who inspires women to reconnect to their intuition, reveal their own inner wisdom and make intentional choices to create a life that feels good.
In this clear, informative and well documented book, the writer explains why individuals who take IMUPIus» feel the difference.
the writer and creator of JerseyGirlTalk.com - a blog dedicated to inspiring and helping readers to feel and look their very best both inside and out.
And I'm a writer, editor, and fitness nut who is just like you: striving to move better, feel better, and live better.
They are also the best writers and know how to spin words with flair and feeling.
As a professional wedding toast - writer, I know how to capture what's in your heart and wordsmith it into a speech that will get the audience to laugh and cry at just the right moments, while the bride feels the love well past the last dance.
As I writer, I find that I'm often better expressing myself with a keyboard or pen than with verbal communication, and I'm sure there are others who feel the same way.
Just call me, I am not a good writer, feeling kind of shy doing this.
And the whole thing feels like everyone involved — actors, writers, directors, best boys — were working outside of their comfort zones.
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But despite the best efforts of the writers (including Ken Anderson of Cinderella fame), it still feels like a series of episodes, in which characters turn up, do little and then disappear for quite a while.
That's how the gifted young Argentine writer - director Matías Piñeiro makes his movies, in a style that seems casual and feels sure - handed — casual and sure - handed being about as good a combination as artistry, in any medium, has to offer.
Viewers may relate to the feeling of being trapped during this strained and tedious throwback, which the writer - director Mickey Keating has framed as a hat tip to the 1970s work of Sam Peckinpah and Peter Watkins, but which lands well south of John Waters in its try - anything - for - a-reaction pretensions.
This collaboration between director Mark Pellington (Arlington Road) and writer Alex Ross Perry (The Color Wheel, Listen Up Philip) unfortunately feels like cocktail - napkin sketch writ large (well, writ medium, anyway).
Numerous supporting characters from the MCU also appear, and it's a credit to writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, as well as director - brothers Joe and Anthony Russo («Captain America: Civil War»), that the 149 - minute film is balanced and never rushed, with all the characters feeling prominent and necessary.
If a movie can unnerve you a bit, of course you must be willing to allow that, then I'm sure the writer, directors, and actors would feel they have done well.
I have my doubts about this film and the cast, but if Academy Award nominated director Bennett Miller and Academy award nominated writer Dan Futterman feel this is the best cast for their movie, I trust their judgment.
For Tony Stark's first outing post - «Avengers,» it was going to be hard to find a writer / director with as much a feel for the character's spiky throwaway one - liners as Joss Whedon, but Black delivered on that level and added surprising insight into the character's psyche, while also engineering one of the best Marvel rug - pulls ever with Ben Kingsley «s Mandarin.
From the Oscar - award winning writers of The Descendants (Best Adapted Screenplay, 2012) comes a feel good summer movie, with plenty of sensitive emotional punch.
Unfortunately, it appears as though this is one of those cases where the writers» previous filmography is a good indicator of what to expect here; namely, a whole lot of horror genre cliches and familiar setups that lack the precision or creativity, in terms of execution, to make them feel fresh or to create atmosphere.
But since the new film from writer - director Jeff Nichols (Take Shelter, Mud) works best as a very strange road - trip movie, that cliché feels apropos.
I'm a longtime fan of writer / director Martin McDonagh because his movies often feel «written» in the best possible way, with a wonderful mixture of flawed characters, heartbreaking loss, and laugh out loud comedy.
I felt as if the writer had pulled off random events, some good, some bad, from here & there and assembled it into the script anyhow.
Like Jolie, the writers also do a good job of compartmentalizing each piece of the story so that it feels like a fresh chapter with renewed interest, while also keeping the focus on the emotional / spiritual arc of Louis as a consistent throughline, so that the movie's climax (which is much more metaphoric and spiritual than literal) has significant impact and satisfies in an iconic and moving way that is hard for any film to pull off.
It only makes last year's masterpiece Far from Heaven look that much better; writer / director Todd Haynes took another late 50s / early 60s film formula and used the colors and the feel of a Douglas Sirk movie to make a comment about films and about ourselves.
Years later as a writer myself I see the value in books and movies like this as a necessary «feel good» source in our often troubled world.
Personally, I feel the best scores of the year are Let Me In, Never Let Me Go, and The Ghost Writer.
Writer and director Damien Chazelle didn't just transport us to a «jazz - up world» where you have to be the best in order to be with the best, he also managed to make us feel all that musical energy — and even a little fear — in just a little over a 100 minutes.
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