When Ms. Pynchon realized after 12 years as a lawyer that her work stress was fueling health problems, she shifted gears and began writing fiction to "re-connect with my creative spirit, " she says.
If Binet is as doubt-filled about fiction, and as passionate about historical witness, as he says he is, the scrupulous response would be to refrain from writing fiction, or to do a kind of historical research that is not attempted here.
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Tarantino won the original screenplay prize for Django Unchained, adding to the Oscar he won for writing Pulp Fiction in 1994.
There are some superbly crafted scenes Beard putting on his snowsuit on his way to the North Pole, Beard stealing a packet of crisps all of which will please those who believe Mr McEwan is best at writing short fiction.
By the mid-1970s he had carved out a nice living writing pulpy science fiction and suspense novels.
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Publisher Tim Sanders of Net Minds persuaded him to write a book linked to Jobs, even though Bushnell had already finished writing a science fiction novel about a video game hatched through nanotechnology in 2071.
Lanier is studying fiction writing in a masters' program, and said she plans to record her campfire conversations with her traveling buddy, who plays in a band called I Need Sleep and will also offer some free musical entertainment.
Advice was varied when I mentioned my desire to enroll in a well-known non-fiction creative writing class.
Hilda came to the center for a week long fiction-writing course.
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But Mr Fraser was a devoted son of the borders, born in Carlisle and writing both fact and fiction about the ruffian-reivers and cattle-stealers of the region: men who, in their shameless venturing and whoring and disrespect for law, were quite a lot like old Flashy, except that they were brave.
Mr Bowden's writing, which reads like fiction though it describes fact, will enchant some and drive others up the wall.
Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.
Named after Hugo Gernsback, the editor of groundbreaking sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, the Hugos (originally the Science Fiction Achievement Awards) have been awarded annually for science fiction and fantasy writing since 1953.
Ebert covered high school sports for a local paper at age 15 while also writing and editing his own science fiction fan magazine.
You can have your own account and talk with your friends and the public about agenting, bookselling, book making, writing, criticizing, dreaming about fiction.
At such moments, the reader starts developing a few scruples of his own, one of which is: a passage like this is neither good fiction nor meaningful historical writing.
According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.
It has what he calls his "research, " the notes for a science fiction story he's writing.
The document is divided into five sections - a record of published fiction, money earned by writing, published miscellany (including movies), the earnings of wife Zelda and a year-by-year account of his life.
Gaiman, whose honors include the Newbery Medal for children's writing, the Hugo for science-fiction and fantasy and a Carnegie Medal in literature, has written fantasy epics "Neverwhere" and "American Gods" and the groundbreaking graphic-novel series "The Sandman, " among other works.
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