Sentences with phrase «writing pulp»

I'm not disputing the fact that an editor would make my books better, but I'm writing pulp fiction not literary masterpieces.

They are writing pulp fiction, not literary masterpieces.

Although some authors did make a career out of writing pulp, I don't think anyone ever got rich off of exclusively writing pulp fiction (there were no Amanda Hockings of pulp).

Interested in finding out more about it, or perhaps even writing pulp yourself, but not sure how to go about it?

It's a state - of - the - digital art 3D film with 1930s «Flash Gordon» story elements, stuff that probably wasn't as dated 100 years ago when Burroughs was writing this pulp fiction.

The first disc also houses a pair of feature - length commentary tracks, the second of which, from filmmaker Roger Avary (one half the team that wrote Pulp Fiction and director of the underestimated Rules of Attraction), is disposable fanboy fare indicated by a lot of fawning and reverential silence.

C.E. draws upon his experience as a USAF veteran and seventeen years as a criminal investigator to write pulp - styled thrillers.

Timothy Zaha wrote some good novels, but a lot of the rest was poorly written pulp fiction composed by authors not talented enough to come up with their own stories who could only make a living by backpacking on the popularity of star wars.

Not exact matches

King was writing short stories for his school classmates, then for publication in the pulps, then for submission to publishers — all the time writing in uncomfortable makeshift spaces (he's tall and the desks he used were not).

I've written copy in computers, chemicals, pulp and paper, mining, construction, electronics, engineering, pollution control, medical equipment, industrial equipment, marine products, software, banking, financial services, health care, publishing, seminars, training, telecommunications, consulting, corporate, e-commerce, membership sites, online information marketing, and many other areas.

When I was writing this post I looked up an old recipe I used to make involving preserved lemon (though I never used it) and it suggested exactly that — chopping the pulp and squeezing the juice.

I have made this recipe as written a few times and have really enjoyed it, so the recipe came to mind recently while trying to figure out a way to make muffins out of my leftover almond pulp.

Stora Enso has written to EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) to evaluate cellulose pulp as an additive in plastics.

Alan began to write novels in the 1950s and Trewin discovered that his first novel, accepted on the 13th submission, was pulped because of a libel.

«Carl Paladino loves to bluster about going after Albany's power brokers with a baseball bat, but the only thing he's likely to beat to a pulp is the state GOP's credibility,» Daily News columnist Bill Hammond writes today.

In addition, PSC staff writes that there was no need for evidentiary hearings and none of the opponents who weighed in on the acquisition — neither PULP, nor Citizens for Local Power and a municipal consortium nor Democratic Assemblyman Kevin Cahill — requested such hearings until May.

The rain foiled Klinsky's plans to write down answers to one open - ended question on her survey, turning her notebook into a wet pulp.

Asimov, whose phenomenal literary output totalled more than 400 books, began writing fiction for the American «pulp» magazines in the 1930s.

In a written statement, AF&PA president Red Cavaney says that Press has used EPA data to «condemn unfairly the pulp and paper industry and to seriously mislead the public».

Movies like last year's «Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,» for example, written and directed by «Lethal Weapon» writer Shane Black, got the spirit just right: Black's movie showed plenty of affectionate nostalgia for pulp tradition, but its sense of energy and movement felt wholly contemporary.

Similar to Inception and Pulp Fiction (okay, maybe not so much the latter), this movie is horribly misunderstood by the common person, but to anyone who has a sense of meta - humour, good cinematography, writing, and great plot line this movie shines like lamp in a dark basement (See what I did there, I was implying that horror movies in general aren't that great... I was also referencing the movie).

During 1993, Tarantino wrote and directed his next feature, Pulp Fiction, which featured three interweaving crime story lines; Tony Scott's big - budget production of True Romance was also released that year.

It also snared Tarantino his first writing and directing Oscar nominations since Pulp - and got a Best Picture nod, too.

According to the press notes, «Reach Me» director John Herzfeld first wrote the script for this ensemble dramedy circa 2001, which makes sense given that the film bears more than a faint aroma of Herzfeld's «2 Days in the Valley» (1997), one of the least offensive of the era's many «Pulp Fiction» also - rans.

Where the writing in «Pulp Fiction» tempted actors to strut and pose, the words in «Hard Eight» keep them in check.

Deadline writes that the one - hour drama will «honor the original film while adding its own unique brand of grit, pulp, sex and violence.»

Updating a script written by Robert Lowell (a man who has been deceased since 1977), Haley updates the action to modern day Cleveland, but this mob affiliated kidnap caper feels exactly like direct - to - video fodder from the mid to late 90's modeling snappy, impressionistic dialogue around loopy bits of violence and pronounced plot twists, a common template following the success of Tarantino's Pulp Fiction (1994).

Definitely not for young kids, but it's smart pulp writing and well put together for a direct - to - DVD animation.

PULP FICTION **** / **** Image A + Sound A + Extras A + starring John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Bruce Willis written and directed by Quentin Tarantino JACKIE BROWN **** / **** Image A Sound A + Extras A starring Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Robert De Niro screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, based on the novel Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard directed by Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary won the Oscar for writing «Pulp Fiction» (1994).

Tarantino wrote the character of Pulp Fiction's Jules Winnfield for Samuel L. Jackson after working with him on True Romance and after a reading for Reservoir Dogs, but a subsequent, lackluster Pulp line reading (Jackson did not realize he had to give an energetic audition for a part written for him) planted doubt in Tarantino's mind — and Jackson lost the role to Paul Calderon, who gave a great reading.

by Walter Chaw Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote grand, incendiary pulp.

When we first wrote about this years ago, not many believed Rogen could pull off a pulp hero like this, and yet here away, kickin» off the weekend with the Green Hornet and his Black Beauty.

As Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman wrote when Pulp archaeology was reaching a fever pitch, «In the two and a half hours of Pulp Fiction there are plenty of scenes that recall other movies, but the bulk of the movie does not.

David Bordwell contends that Tarantino deliberately signals his sources to his audience, «in order to tease pop connoisseurs into a new level of engagement,» while Aaron C. Anderson writes that by using framing markers and calculatingly phony distancing devices (like, for example, the black - and - white process shots in Pulp Fiction), «Tarantino draws attention to his film's status as a film, as a constructed work of fiction, and as a «simulation.

Written in three weeks, Reservoir Dogs began as a possible story in the triptych that would become Pulp Fiction.

While writing for pulp magazines, Hammett is asked by Jimmy Ryan (Peter Boyle), his old boss at the Pinkerton agency (and the model for the writer's «Continental Op» character), to help crack a particularly tough case.

Sylvester Stallone can write entertaining formula action scripts like a demon, but he often hands them over to hack directors who don't know how to extract the pulp and the juice from them.

He wrote the original screenplay and the Tony Scott - directed film hit the scene between «Reservoir Dogs» and «Pulp Fiction.»

Tales were swapped, newspaper stories were written, and pulp novels churned out in which sociopaths were remade into «legendary» gunslingers, and when the movies were invented, the folk antiheroes took naturally to them, too.

Chester Rush (Quentin Tarantino, «Four Rooms,» 1995) «Four Rooms,» a series of four short films, followed right on the heels of the success of «Pulp Fiction» but was ultimately nothing to write home about.

Go, the new movie written by first - timer John August and directed by DougLiman (Swingers) is the best Pulp Fiction rip - off in a long time.

Michael Wolff, who would go on to write a book that is not at all pulpy or propagandistic, called Zero Dark Thirty a «nasty piece of pulp and propaganda»; Naomi Wolf straight up called director Kathryn Bigelow a modern - day Leni Riefenstahl.

DeVito reunites with cinematographer Stephen H. Burum (Body Double, Mission: Impossible) to create a unique, dark look to the film, which lends a grittiness to the story that works well with Mamet's pulp writing style.

All of his movies, not just «Pulp Fiction» and «Kill Bill» and the rest, but also the ones he wrote but did not direct, like «Natural Born Killers» and «True Romance,» mainline blood and guts and grunge.

You just made me wonder if one of the reasons I like writing so much is that I get the same kind of huge adrenline rush I'd get from growing seeds, but without the crazy - making stuff like hail pummeling the seedlings to pulp... or squash bugs killing all the pumpkins... or # @ % # deer eating the nearly - ripe cantaloupes.

To write even a quarter of the output of these extreme pulp writers, you'll need to streamline your system to give your productivity the boost it needs.

But before you think you should start writing your books by hand or get to work pressing pulp to make paper, let's take a look at what artisanal self - publishing... Continue Reading

On the side, he wrote World War II pulps — nobody ever told him that that war was over.

Further, while his father was a disgruntled career soldier, his mother wrote for romance pulps and had a 16 - year affair with cartoonist, cartoon anthologist, and mystery writer Lawrence Lariar, a reasonably big name in his day.