Sentences with phrase «writing friends who»

I have a number of writing friends who are in one phase or another of a traditional career ---- still in it, sometimes hanging by a thread, a few dropped by their publishers.

I have a lot of writing friends who are pursuing traditional publication.

I have so many writing friends who are part of writing groups that do just this, and the results are always a lot of manuscripts not being sold.

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

Do you have a writing friend who you'd be more excited for than for yourself?

Got a writing friend who could use this news?

Not exact matches

«The regiment actually had a football match with the Germans who beat them 3 - 2,» an officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps wrote in a letter to a friend in London.

Write a handwritten note to a friend who has been through a rough time lately.

«Paradoxically, big get - togethers can be easier to prioritize than smaller ones,» writes Vanderkam, offering the example of a busy professor who plans an annual getaway for her old college friends and their families.

«HEPs listen hard to others and do all they can to grasp their emotional state and needs, whether it is a friend who has just been diagnosed with cancer or a spouse who is upset at them for working late yet again,» he writes, adding, «but listening is never enough.

There are many classic books about writing effective copy, and «How to win friends and influence people» should be required reading for anyone who wants to improve their marketing chops.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

It's written by Gates» late friend, Swedish statistician and global health expert Hans Rosling, and Rosling's son and daughter - in - law, who helped finish the book after he died in 2017.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

Adam Grant, the Wharton professor who is Sandberg's friend and writing partner, has been by her side, offering the comfort of research into resilience and tools for emerging from grief.

NPS is «perhaps the best - known customer - loyalty tool around today, based on the entirely sound principle that the more customer promotersyou have (i.e., customers who say on surveys that they're highly likely to refer you to a colleague or friend), the more likely you'll be to grow your business and outpace the competition,» writes customer - engagement expert Bill Lee for the HBR Blog Network.

«In - N - Out is beloved by your friends, who encourage you to go for a quickie whenever you can,» Kryza wrote in Thrillist.

My friends who read my first attempts at writing my book, years ago, struggled to tell me how unreadable it was, so I wasn't born with engaging writing.

Written by Bays & Thomas and Spivey, the spinoff is in the tone of HIMYM, this time told from a dad's point of view, and features a new group of New York friends who hang out at MacLaren's Pub.

«I always had great contempt for people who bitched and moaned about how «hard» writing was and how «blockage» was a constant and looming threat,» Wallace wrote to his friend Jonathan Franzen.

After Steinbrenner's death, Trump wrote how his «great friend» was a «true legend» who «understood winning better than anybody.»

Then, if you end up finding a teen - friendly bank, be sure to write a carefully worded letter to the bank that said no, letting them know that not only did you find a different bank to do business with, but you are recommending it to all your friends, who also want checking accounts of their own (business checking or otherwise).

«I had a recent Sloan alum read mine, and a lawyer friend who writes well,» Hofmeister says.

Zuckerberg, who grew up in the New York suburb of Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., began writing computer code when he was 10 on an Atari computer, devising games and enlisting friends to do the graphics.

A friend who has been around tech almost as long as I have wrote the other afternoon with a question.

One interesting bit of research I came across is that a study found a 33 percent increase in the completion of goals among those who wrote their goals down, created an action plan and shared with a friend.

With his good friend Paul Allen, who was working at Honeywell Inc.'s Boston facilities, he began writing a programming language.

Bricklin got together with an old friend, Bob Frankston, who knew more about programming, and the two started a company called Software Arts Inc. (See «Software Arts wrote the first best - seller,» page 71.)

The Macro Man blog is written by Team Macro Man, a very small group of friends who are market participants with varied backgrounds are across asset classes, geographies, roles and institutions.

Tony wrote the first edition of Notes From a Friend in 1991, handing it out to thousands of people who needed to overcome their greatest challenges.

We were thrilled and honored to have consummate entrepreneur and a close friend, Gary Whitehill, write the Foreword for Small Business, BIG Vision: Lessons on How to Dominate Your Market from Self - Made Entrepreneurs Who Did it Right.

Like one of our friends, a builder, who has long been driving around in his van on the side of which was written: «Erection guaranteed», the industrious businessmen from the -LSB-...]

Kogan's app also provided access to «more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,» Grewal wrote — aka friends of friends — which allowed Cambridge to build profiles for millions of potential voters.

The Daily Mirror wrote that in 1982, Carney's high school trivia team lost a competition after it failed to correctly answer who was Snoopy's bird friend (Woodstock).

This is precisely why I wrote my paper for people in their 20s which I distribute to my college friends and others who hear about it in some way.

This friend of mine who is writing a new smart contract introduced me to the Colorado Bitcoin Society Meetup.

My friend Jason Brady wrote an entire book on this subject, called Income Investing, which is a great book for equity people who might not know a lot about bonds.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

I first was introduced to Warren (not physically) through a friend of mine in 1979 who said, «There's this guy out in Omaha that when he writes, you really should read what he writes»cause it's got a certain clarity to it,»» he said.

A 2015 Dominican University of California study found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves without writing them down.

,» asked a friend of mine who read my article which I wrote back in June of last year.

♦ A friend wrote, taking issue with my characterization of Rush Limbaugh as someone who has «made his career by denouncing people.»

The lawyers simply can not be as blithe as my friend George Will and the other Never Trumpers, who write off this election and look to a better future rising from the ashes.

So to my friends who are reading this, and especially to the friend who wrote in, may God be with you and know that all of us are with you also.

I have written research papers with colleagues (and friends) who are fierce atheists and think my Catholic beliefs are for the birds, and they know that I think their atheism is for the birds.

• The Colson Center held a lunch - time forum on religious freedom at the Evangelical Theological Society meeting, and the four speakers were Timothy George and Ryan Anderson, both members of our Advisory Council, and Thomas Farr and Russell Moore, both friends of the magazine who've written feature essays in the last two issues.

Finally: I'd like to issue a big thank - you to our friend, Matthew Vines, who not only wrote a great book for discussion, but who has jumped into the comment section several times to respond to your questions and ideas.

It's written by my friend Glennon Melton, who blogs at the wildly - popular Momastery, and it's called Carry On, Warrior: Thoughts on Life Unarmed.

Let's be a community of women, gathered together to live more whole - hearted, to sharpen, challenge, love and inspire one another to then scatter back out to our worlds bearing the mandate that my friend Idelette wrote, we are women who love.

On January 24, 1774, the young James Madison, twenty - two years old and two years out of Princeton, wrote an exasperated letter to his college friend William Bradford, who lived in Pennsylvania.