Sentences with phrase «written piece of fiction»

The best thing about the film, though, is that even though it's all about real events and real people, it still feels like a very well - written piece of fiction — not to say it feels unrealistic, it's more to say that the characters are more developed and intriguing than in most biopics.

«I've written a piece of fiction that suddenly starts coming true around me.

If you're writing a piece of fiction, you'll have a lot more leeway in the design, but if you're a non-fiction author with a textbook or manual, you'll want to stick pretty close to the conventions other books in your genre utilize.

Not exact matches

«This is a piece of fiction that I wrote in 1972, I think,» Sanders said.

The only fact about the bible is that it's the best piece of fiction ever written.

That bullshit might have worked when mankind was living in caves and a couple of thousand years ago when some desert dwellers wrote a crappy piece of fiction now called The Babble, but we now know better on many, many fronts.

NO... but people that believe in the biblical fantasy will always try to add some kind of science angle to it so as to legitimize the badly written piece of crappy fiction..

In a book replete with evaluations and magisterial judgments tossed in as throw - away lines, Till We Have Faces — arguably the most powerful piece of fiction written by Lewis — is mentioned only twice.

And while it sometimes can be overwhelming to work on fiction while working on non-fiction parenting pieces in the same week, it also lets me have a break while still being productive if something is frustrating me in one area of my writing.

But what's interesting, especially about that one, and that one [is a] piece written by Larry Greenemeier, was that, you know, all the popular science fiction treatments of that kind have it [suddenly] happening and conflict between humans but through Larry's reporting it seems more likely that we will see it coming; that machine self - awareness will occur in a certain kind of stepwise fashion where they're getting better at certain tasks; [that they'll be able to do] autonomous activities, and from there that you can actually see them develop, and it shouldn't come up as a big surprise as it if finally happens.

Mike Birbiglia's sensitive, funny, sad, honest film Don't Think Twice, which has more affection for and understanding of a certain kind of comedy person than perhaps any piece of fiction that's ever been written about them.

I still love the power of fiction, and I've written pieces about movies in the past year that I'm proud of, like this one on David Lynch and this one on the intersection of movies and video games.

The literature of Frank Miller is a prime example that comics aren't just for kids, and just because they are graphic novels, they are as important to our culture as any other piece of American fiction writing.

Despite its brevity or because of it, «Fiction» is the stronger of the two pieces; Solondz crams issues of misogyny, race, and Ivory Tower pretension into its tight arc and transfers the embedded hypocrisies of both onto the process of literary criticism as it manifests itself in college writing courses.

12, reviewed more than 350 pieces of artwork from a monthly magazine for teens and 50 fiction writing samples produced by high school students from a similar publication.

In November and December, the students study poetry and literary devices, followed by learning to research and write a piece of historical fiction.

The competition, sponsored by the CREC Foundation, accepted original pieces of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction writing.

We linked our Literacy text to Space, studying «Tower to the Sun» by Colin Thomson and the children used their space knowledge to write some fantastic pieces of fiction about towers into space.

I spent quite a bit of my weekend writing, signing and packing up books, editing for an upcoming anthology, writing a piece of flash fiction for another anthology, responding to emails, etc..

I read the piece but, by the time I got to that, I was to the point of either throwing the laptop against the wall or writing a major piece, both of which would have taken away from my fiction writing.

I tend to write flash fiction pieces in one sitting — a bit like freewriting — and then edit the hell out of it afterwards.

One of the keys to success as a writer is to spread your fiction writing wings by writing a variety of pieces.

Good writers can pack a universe into a piece of flash fiction and bad ones can write paper - thin characters and hackneyed prose across 200,000 words.

Since my undergraduate degrees were in Psychology and English Literature, and having started writing stories at the very young age of 8, I always tried to fathom what it was that made a piece of fiction a great work of art.

It was actually the experience of handling a lengthy bill (with more than 400 pages of legislative text) that gave me the confidence that I could write a novel - length piece of fiction.

For some of you, getting the word out while marketing your fiction book is a piece of cake compared to the writing and publishing that comes before!

Recently, I wrote a 500 word flash fiction piece for practice that will never see the light of day.

During his tenure at the magazine, he has written fiction and humor pieces, book reviews, profiles, reporting pieces, and more than a hundred stories for «The Talk of the Town» and «Comment.»

- Fran Bigman, The Washington Post «A dark fairy tale that pulses with life and anger, Little Nothing is a remarkable piece of fiction - fantastically written and beautifully crafted.»

I was a magazine journalist who had written a few nonfiction articles about Maine game wardens, and one Saturday morning, I started noodling around with a short piece of fiction — not even a story, just an anecdote — about a rookie warden and a marauding black bear.

The piece in question is an 800 - word short story, nay, practically a blog post-length work of flash fiction, that she sat down to write specifically for a charity auction.

Anyone can publish what they have written on Wattpad a romantic story, a piece of science fiction, poetry, an essay or a novel, and interact with readers and fans.

Giving a piece the room to expand beyond its few words is one of the central tricks of writing flash fiction.

Maybe keep it on the one topic of fiction short story pieces for magazine, collection of 10 short stories for the agent and for the publisher, so the query letters are targeting something specific and you won't have to guess what the reader might be doing — «if you are writing a proposal, write this query letter, or if you wrote a novel, write this query letter, etc.» Just short stories, just ideas of how to phrase it, how long it should be, how much info to share, etc..»

Since electronic reading devices (and to some extent laptops for that matter) make reading long pieces of writing less enjoyable, we have chosen to dedicate the journal to «short fiction,» in this case, fiction which is approximately 1500 words or less in length.

Before writing novellas, I wrote a lot of flash fiction, entered contests — won some, lost some — but each time I wrote a flash piece, or sent it in to a contest, I usually had a self - edited publishable short ready to send around to lit mags.

I think this book is a beautifully written, timely, piece of historical fiction.

The piece in question is an 800 - word short story, nay, practically a blog post-length work of flash fiction, that she sat down to write... [Read more...]

«This well - written period piece may appeal more to readers of women's fiction than mystery fans.»

Into FREE FRIDAY FRIGHTS #freefridayfrights which he'll be starting next Friday — Friday April 6, 2018 and rolling out weekly via www.markleslie.ca/freefridayfrights a free piece of writing (alternating between fiction and non-fiction) that will be available for 24 hours.

If you're writing a book (rather than a piece of journalism), whether it's fiction or non-fiction, the Chicago Manual of Style is a fairly safe bet.

Having recently been interviewed by author Jay Lemming on the subject of literary fiction (link to interview follows this post), I rashly agreed to write a longer piece on how I came to find the indie publisher who published my work of literary fiction (and subsequent novel), Vagabondage Press.

As Le Veque points out in the NYT piece, not everyone is in the same category as she is when it comes to adapting to this landscape: since she has been writing fiction for more than 20 years without selling a single book through the traditional publishing industry, she has a backlog of material she can quickly produce and / or cut the price on.

Since electronic reading devices (and to some extent laptops for that matter) make reading long pieces of writing less enjoyable, we have chosen to dedicate the journal to flash fiction.

I've written articles on a given topic, then included a piece of flash fiction inspired by that topic, then I've had people sign up for my free short story collection because they liked what was on my blog.

«If you receive a certain modest advance for a piece of fiction, which is what most writers get these days, but if you write a book in six weeks and it's published two months after you start it, that makes more economic sense than three years,» Pollack said.

So many great pieces of commercial fiction writing, so few slots we could fill.

Just because a piece of writing is small doesn't mean it's flash fiction.

Any mystery fan, fan of science fiction, or lover of the private detective style of writing of the 40s will lose him or herself quickly in this piece.

I wrote a post with the very same title as a memoir piece a couple of years ago Thinking of a short fiction piece with a Christmas theme for Sarah's Guest Post, nothing grabbed me — mild panic, yikes!