Sentences with phrase «writing feels like work»

I know this is partly because I've been a professional editor and worked at a traditional publishing house, so to me, reading amateur writing feels like work.

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As much as I enjoy writing and coaching, if no one feels inspired to action through my words, then it feels like my work is in vain — «What's the point?»

We felt as if we had been playing parts in a fascinating movie that suddenly took a bad turn, in which we had worked like dogs for two weeks to produce something really spectacular and then were written out of the script.»

Like, writing a book feels so unproductive, because you're working on it for years and nothing happens.

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So many people just will not start writing because it feels like work.

We're talking about discipline (or the lack of it), church today, new friend debriefings, the book I'm writing, the school he's trying to finish (still) and how frustrating it is to work and work and still feel like you're just barely making ends meet because I do a lot of things really well but unfortunately, none of them make us much money.

Any writer will tell you that writing a book can often feel like giving birth, it's a wrestle to bring that work into the world.

Like going for a long walk, doing something creative like drawing or writing, re-potting my houseplants (strange, but this feels luxurious to me), a nap, reading a book for half an hour in the afternoon when I should be working, eLike going for a long walk, doing something creative like drawing or writing, re-potting my houseplants (strange, but this feels luxurious to me), a nap, reading a book for half an hour in the afternoon when I should be working, elike drawing or writing, re-potting my houseplants (strange, but this feels luxurious to me), a nap, reading a book for half an hour in the afternoon when I should be working, etc..

But, man, I tell you what... it just seems like by the time I get home from work, having dinner, and spending time with the family, the last thing I feel like doing is sitting in front of the computer writing a blog post.

Between writing a holiday cookbook, hosting Thanksgiving, preparing to go to New Orleans this week, keeping up a busy work - from - home schedule, and getting the boys through schoolwork before a Christmas break, I kind of feel like a chicken with my head cut off.

What a briliant piece of work... Kudos Hamzah... This was really nostalgic and very well written... I would have like it more if you had written something on the way Suarez felt the pain of loss as the fans did and also the way he celebrated with the fans and his sense of humour (That celebration in front of Moyes??? Good work nonetheless...:)

I worked through my feelings about my first birth experience by writing about it and talking through it with my partner, but I still wanted to know what childbirth was like without drugs.

I just wrote out an e-mail today to a girl who was feeling discouraged about pumping at work with some «insider tips» on nursing — like the hands - free bustier!

If you are writing about something you love, it won't feel like work.

Distracting your child with food works short term, but it also hinders your child's ability to work through his negative feelings (Andrea Nair wrote a great three - part series on how to deal with tantrums if you'd like to check it out).

Write this questions down and think what kind of motivational mantra you can tell yourself for when you don't feel like working out.

Though Dr. Jack Newman is a man, he writes from his professional experience working with thousands of mothers and babies so that you can feel like you're in good company — with lots of other concerned mothers and fathers.

Her writing is so rich and the interviews so sharp that you feel like you've met her subjects personally — and can't help but feel their passion for the work.

Answering an e-mail about this follow - up profile for Science Careers, Weissman - Unni wrote, «I realized that the (magazine) article sort of made me look like a superstar without noting how much I don't feel like a superstar, how hard it is to balance work and family.»

I felt like I would love to write a book that summarises some of this excellent work.

After my initial Keto post I was messaged, called and questioned about it so much that I felt like maybe I could start writing recipes, tips and tricks that have worked for me and any info I learn along the way!

So sometimes, sitting down to write about career - related topics makes it feel too much like work, which has been a tad all - consuming lately.

I totally relate to the blogging «block» — writing is a lot of hard work and to me, it doesn't always feel like it's worth the time.

At the beginning of your blog, were you ever frustrated because you felt like no one was seeing the hard work you were putting into your writing?

I do think it is an individual thing - if you do nt feel like blogging for a week then do nt, if you do nt want to write everyday then don't, it just depends on what works best for you

Conversation - style of writing just like day - to - day type of thing works better because it has a personal feel and it may give more information about the person whom you're communicating.

«If you can't give me a base personality to work with, I don't feel like playing 20 questions to see if you're someone I even should be talking to,» writes DDfnord.

That first issue in particular reads and feels like one of the X-Men or Spider - Man comics Coates read growing up, or an issue of the Ed Brubaker - written Captain America, which Coates has cited as an influence on his own comics work.

I was writing a lot — writing with Noah, writing alone — and I was working on scripts for hire, and I felt like I was quite inside the form of a movie.

The source material for «Zathura» may only be four years old, but it, like its predecessor «Jumanji» (both the work of children's author Chris Van Allsburg), feel like they were written in the «50s.

I also like the feeling I get when I'm working on a true story — a sense of authenticity, that I'm really reporting and not just writing.

The series is created, written and directed by Rodrigo Garcia, who is known for his work on feature films like «Mother and Child» and last year's «Albert Nobbs,» as well as television series such as HBO's «The Sopranos» and «Six Feet Under,» the latter of which has a similarly soap opera feel to it.

Curtis, who is only 56, said science - fiction project About Time felt like «a summing up» for a career which has taken in the legendary TV comedy Blackadder, writing work on 1994's Four Weddings and a Funeral and 1999's Notting Hill, as well as the directing of 2003's Love Actually.

, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - winning play, feels too much like a «Greatest Hits of Grief» compilation, then it still manages to work due to the perceptive ideas it brings forth and the surprisingly tart one - liners that dot the film's landscape.

Even if the screenplay by David Lindsay - Abaire, who also wrote the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award - winning play, feels too much like a «Greatest Hits of Grief» compilation, then it still manages to work due to the perceptive ideas it brings forth and the surprisingly tart one - liners that dot the film's landscape.

We also know what it feels like to be buried under a pile of student writing that needs to be read and commented on, and although there are many strategies that can help us deal with this paper load, it's still a daunting part of our work with students.

It feels like a real progression for these students and clearly builds on the work they did last term on non-fiction writing.»

«For example, in the Manga workshop run by Matthew Lin, the students drew manga characters; Candy Royalle's poetry workshop led to students creating pieces of poetry — some of which were later published online; John Larkin and JC Burke worked with students to develop «show don't tell» writing skills whereby they took a word like «walk» and then all the synonyms associated with that word — for example skip, hop, stumble, sprint, shuffle, stride — and learned how each word has a nuanced meaning and how this can change the feel of a text.

«We feel like we are part of one big school,» she writes, «and as we work together, share ideas and collaborate we know that it will be our students who benefit the most.»

So if writers can stop seeing marketing as something that's outside of the realm of their imagination of creativity and think of it as something that's intrinsic to the work itself, I think it all goes much more smoothly and doesn't feel like such a departure from the writing activity.

Hi, I have read this before, but came back to get it into perspective again, it sounds like hard work, but if you are writing about something that you really feel then its all worth while, saying that you have to be so dedicated, so well done!

(She's currently working on a collection of them and writing them «feels like a vacation» because she doesn't have to make anything up.)

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The shape of the ThinkPad Tablet makes it the one device that has some closest to feeling like writing or working on a paper notepad for me, and that makes a difference when we get to talking about inking later on.

If spending a bunch of money to have a project manager, or personal coach, or to be involved in a supportive community makes you feel good about your writing and confident enough to keep working on your project, it can feel like money well spent.

Like Aisha am also writing my first fiction novel and finding it both daunting and exciting work and feel out of depth but am determined to write and finish my first novel anyway.

Book writing can make them feel like they're «working.»

It's that time of year when writing and finding time to blog begin to feel like antisocial activities — when everyone is off work and wanting to party and I'm making excuses...

The writing is so masterful and vivid that not only does the reader feel like he's right there on the field with the phenom rookie player, he also forgets that this is a work of fiction.