Sentences with phrase «written as a short story»

I'd experimented with different kinds of stories, done some prose and those other «rhyme - y kind» of poems, and for a period of time even tried to write as short a story as possible... and this was before anything called «flash fiction.»

Originally written as a short story for the anthology, From the Indie Side.

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Hebrews, though — I'd particularly like to see what else you've written on this, because what I'm seeing above is on point as far as it goes, but woefully short of the whole story.

These days, the Waukegan, Ill., native is even busier than he has been for a long time — as one of the editors overseeing the recent rebirth of one of America's great magazines, The Saturday Evening Post, writing regular short stories for them and for another revived literary mag, The Strand.

To one accustomed to thinking of the Bible as historical throughout, it may be a surprise to discover that it contains also short stories — some of the finest fiction ever written.

It's unlike any other I've written, for in addition to memoir, it includes original poetry, short stories, soliloquies, and even a short screenplay, all aimed at engaging your questions, doubts, ideas, and imagination as you wrestle with the Bible along with me.

The team were encouraged to use a breadth of reporting techniques, utilising multimedia skills to present the stories in various forms, such as longer and shorter form writing, as well as video, audio and pictorially.

I wrote this as an afterword to the short story «The woman who measured the heavens with a span» by Sara Maitland.

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet, written by the Geophysical Laboratory's Bob Hazen, has been chosen from books released in 2012 as one of the five titles on the short list for the current Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, one of the three book awards given by Phi Beta Kappa annually.

She writes science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories for adults and children, and is known as a prominent voice for the asexual community.

I enjoy playing Scrabble and watching Jeopardy as well as reading and writing short stories.

Well my name is Donny thomas im sorry i cant chat or message i do nt have a upgrade and as you know I'm a gamer I also draw and write songs and short stories I practice martial arts and weapon training I'm a bit on the dark side of life and try to satu indoors sports are not my thing but I'm up...

Hello i'm Nathan, I enjoy playing video games both ps4 and xbox, as well as reading books, and writing short stories I also enjoy drawing and acting,

Isabelle (Huppert), an ex-nun who believes that God has an as yet unspecified mission set aside for her, keeps herself fed by writing short stories for a pornographic magazine.

Damien Power, who wrote and directed, previously made a series of short films, and his experience becomes evident as the story develops.

The short story «We Can Remember It for You Wholesale» by Philip K. Dick served as the source for the 1990 Motion Picture screen story by Ronald Shusett & Dan O'Bannon and Jon Povill and screenplay by Ronald Shusett & Dan O'Bannon and Gary Goldman, with the updated screenplay being written by Kurt Wimmer and Mark Bomback and James Vanderbilt.

Written and directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Undead, Daybreakers) and based on the short story «All You Zombies» by the late Robert A. Heinlein, Predestination is said to be an ingeniously constructed puzzle - box, as emotional as it is thrilling.

«Split into chapters, replicating short stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.stories, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.Stories (New and Selected) is top - tier Noah Baumbach and it's really beautiful to see Sandler giving it his all and crafting such a warmhearted but damaged character,» we wrote in our review of the movie when it premiered at Cannes this year, «while Stiller — a Baumbach regular — is very funny as the youngest Meyerowitz, doing his best to distance himself from his father and siblings, but realising home is where the heart is.»

Right, and also interestingly Eric Rohmer wrote all of his movies as short stories or novellas and then he turned those into screenplays, which is a fascinating way to do it.

This is the darker one of the two, though it's not as twisted as AI (# 6, 2001), you can definitely see Spielberg slowly starting to mature in these two films, perhaps under the influence of Stanley Kubrick and Philip K. Dick (who wrote the short story this film is based on).

But fans are wondering if he might have one more trilogy up his sleeve, as Tolkien wrote plenty more material about Middle Earth, including the novel «The Silmarillion», short stories and more appendices and indices.

But Reeves also might have his attention diverted as he has committed himself to write and direct the short story 8 O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.

The movie follows James as he takes off on a tropical vacation («When I come back, I will be ready for life,» he insists), has a frenzied romantic fling with a teenager, and tries to parlay a few sloppy hand - written short stories into a regular gig writing for a magazine edited by one of his dad's old business associates.

Written and directed by Don Coscarelli and based on the Bram Stoker Award - nominated short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale, BUBBA HO - TEP stars cult icon Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness, «Ash vs. Evil Dead») as Elvis Presley, the late, great Ossie Davis (Grumpy Old Men, Do The Right Thing) as John «Jack» Kennedy, Ella Joyce (Set It Off, Stop!

Re-Animator (1985) is Stuart Gordon's loose contemporary adaptation of H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 short story Herbert West — Reanimator, which was written as a parody of Mary Shelley's most famous work, the 1818 Gothic novel Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.

Time travel is a tricky business — so tricky, in fact, that the danger of messing with time serves as the subject of virtually every notable time - travel tale since Ray Bradbury wrote the 1952 short story «A Sound Of Thunder.»

This commentary is much better, as the participants delve into the story of the film and discuss how the script (which was written in a very short time) evolved.

As a creative project, a teacher could post a short - story starter, then let students continue to write the story as a group, each taking turns creating the next sentence or twAs a creative project, a teacher could post a short - story starter, then let students continue to write the story as a group, each taking turns creating the next sentence or twas a group, each taking turns creating the next sentence or two.

As I say in my new book, Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Subject Areas (due out in April), a valuable way the students show me their research is by providing at least 10 hyperlinks throughout their essays, regardless of whether they are writing short stories or argumentation Writing Behind Every Door: Teaching Common Core Writing in the Subject Areas (due out in April), a valuable way the students show me their research is by providing at least 10 hyperlinks throughout their essays, regardless of whether they are writing short stories or argumentation Writing in the Subject Areas (due out in April), a valuable way the students show me their research is by providing at least 10 hyperlinks throughout their essays, regardless of whether they are writing short stories or argumentation writing short stories or argumentation essays.

As they become familiar with the story and vocabulary, the pupils gain the confidence to then work in groups and write their own short story based on the same format, and add their own actions.

Young men with athletic ability in sports such as Football or Basketball were considered heroes, regardless of their ability to solve algebraic equations, or write short stories effectively.

Use news stories as possible Bell ringer activities (or whatever the current jargon is for a short activity for the students to do) especially while you are checking homework ~ doing attendance ~ at the end of the period ~ etc.) Find a news story ~ write up a brief summary and then include two reaction questions for the students to respond.

They then wrote a short story as if they were a character in that event and created a PowerPoint presentation for their classmates.

As part of the competition, pupils were tasked with writing the best original stories and performing them to an audience within the short three - minute time frame.

Try using a variety of texts for shared reading such as picture books, short stories, poetry, songs, informational texts, and even student writing.

The student who forgets to do her book report or math problems as homework may get absorbed in a learning project that involves interviewing a grandparent for social studies (interpersonal), taking pictures of animals in the neighborhood for an ecology unit (spatial - naturalist), or writing a song on an electronic keyboard about a character in a short story (musical).

This manual is the third in a series that assists parents, teachers and professionals in teaching children to create good quality stories, while engaging them in the writing process.This manual can be used as a seperate manual to teach children how to plan and organize a short story, or as a part of

At the end of the week, students form partnerships and write poems, tongue twisters, or short stories using as many «sh» words as possible.

This typically involves changes in (a) textual materials (that is, moving from commercially prepared short stories and text excerpts to original literature as a basis for instruction); (b) curriculum organization (such as moving from isolated instruction in reading, writing, language, and subject matter to intra - and interdisciplinary teaching); and (c) changes in roles and contexts (that is, the teacher moving from controlling topics and turns to assuming a supportive instructional role, while students take greater responsibility for topic selection, discussion, and assessment of their own progress).

It has become a bit of a tradition that every Christmas I write a short story for my friend, author Catherine Brunelle, as her Christmas present.

What do you see as personal challenges to writing a shorter story?

Fast forward a bit and those of us who wrote long fiction started looking at our royalty reports and realized that we were making the exact same amount per borrow for a five thousand word short story as we were for a hundred thousand word novel.

Author, journalist and blogger, she's especially keen on short - form writing, such as flash fiction, short stories and blog posts.

First impressions are lasting impressions, and as a writer, you rarely get a second chance to make one, especially when you write short stories and novels for a reading public that wants to be impressed immediately...

We accept well - written articles (ideally 1000 — 4000 words); such as essays, political analysis and satire, philosophy, psychology, short stories, book reviews, book excerpts, author interviews, poetry, et cetera.

New York Times bestselling steampunk / fantasy author Gail Carriger joined us this week to talk about writing and marketing for traditionally published novels as well as her experiences self - publishing novellas and short stories.

As writer Denise Barnes recently remarked to me at the Romantic Novelists Association annual conference, where I was a guest speaker, there's not that big a leap from writing themed collections of short stories to producing a novel.

«My Parents» Bedroom,» a story from his short story collection, Say You're One of Them, was one of five short stories by African writers chosen as finalists for The Caine Prize for African Writing 2007.

Byars eventually finished college, and he now writes short stories and serves as an assistant editor for Narrative magazine.

Rick Bass was brought up in Houston, Texas and, for about a decade after leaving college, worked as a gas and oil geologist in Jackson, Mississippi (where he started writing short stories in his lunch breaks) before moving to the Yaak Valley in the northern Rockies, near the Idaho - Montana - Canada border in 1987 with his wife, Elizabeth Hughes, who has illustrated some of his more than 20 books.