He soon started to write short stories, although his career did not take off until 1982, when, through Harlan Ellison's help, his short story " The River Styx Runs Upstream " was published and awarded first prize in a Twilight Zone Magazine story competition.

I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701, writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs.

' Around this time, Blair had started to write reviews for the New English Weekly.

After the Gabo Reform in 1894, the Joseon Dynasty and later the Korean Empire started to write all official documents in Hangul.

" The last few years I had been complaining about that fact that there weren ’ t any females speaking to women above the age of 30, so I started thinking about how I was writing my songs and came up with the idea for “ Friday Night Girls " ... I wanted to write a three minute song with every Sex and the City episode that had ever existed, so I did.

Knuth started to write a book about compiler design in 1962, and soon realized that the scope of the book needed to be much larger.

At the turn of the 1920s and 1930s he started to write short stories, which were later printed under the title Memoirs Of A Time Of Immaturity.

Aubrey Beardsley started to write an erotic treatment of the legend which was never to be finished due to his illness ; the first parts of it were published in The Savoy and later issued in book form by Leonard Smithers with the title Under the Hill.

When I started to write the play it cropped up in my mind again.

Zola started to write in the romantic style.

" Conversely, economists in other specializations have started to write on topics concerning economic history.

He had a short story published in a children's magazine in 1905 and started to write a book about nature.

Roman cursive or informal handwriting started out as a derivative of the capital letters, though the tendency to write quickly and efficiently made the letters less precise.

He filled his new few years with smaller works for his friends until 1748, when Richardson started helping Sarah Fielding and her friend Jane Collier to write novels.

Apart from editing, Mao Dun also started to write about his social thoughts and criticisms.

To stop the gossiping which started shortly afterwards, Huygens write the poem Cluijs-werck, in which he shows a glimpse of the latter stages of his life.

The realization that a useful Amiga emulator could be written contributed to an increase in enthusiasm about emulation, which started or sped-up efforts to write emulators for other and often less popular computer and electronic game architectures.

At the age of twelve, Lauper learned how to play an acoustic guitar, which her sister had given to her, and she started to write her own lyrics.

He stated, " I started to write music when I was four or five and didn't realise I was composing tonally because I was simply using the piano ".

So I started to draw and to write.

" He continued to write scholarly works and to teach, but his historical novels proved so popular that he soon started using his own name on them.

He started to write this treatise in 1143 in Toulouse and he completed it the same year in Béziers.

Under the guidance of Atlantic's Turkish-American co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, Darin's career finally took off in 1958 when he recorded " Splish Splash ," which he co-wrote with radio DJ Murray Kaufman after a bet that he could not write a song that started out with the words, " Splish Splash, I was takin ' a bath ".

In the 1970s, Novello started to write letters to famous people under the pen name of Lazlo Toth ( name taken from that of Laszlo Toth, a deranged man who vandalized Michelangelo's Pietà in Rome ).

For the press release to promote the " Get Back " single, McCartney wrote, " We were sitting in the studio and we made it up out of thin air ... we started to write words there and then ... when we finished it, we recorded it at Apple Studios and made it into a song to roller-coast by.

He tells of three men who started out on a trip across a single paddock, a ten-by-ten-mile square owned by a sheep grazer.

Erected on the site of pagan temples and three previous St. Sophias, the first of which was begun by Constantine, this fourth church was started by Justinian in 532 and completed twenty years later.

The initiative will take three years, having started June 1, 2009.

In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines, and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.

When it started in 1970, the Universal Press Syndicate gave cartoonists a 50-percent share on the ownership of their works, while the Creators Syndicate ( founded in 1987 ) granted artists full rights to the strips, something that Universal Press did in 1990. followed by King Features in 1995, while before 1999 both the Tribune and United Feature services began granting rights to creators over their works ; however the latter three syndicates only applied this to new strips, or to ones popular enough.

The Detroit Curling Club was started in 1840 when Michigan only had a population of 212, 000 and had only been in the Union for three years.

Without a long reliever or emergency starter on the playoff roster, Hargrove started both Bartolo Colón and Charles Nagy in games four and five on only three days rest.

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

While en route to Chongqing, the Nationalist army intentionally started the " fire of Changsha ", which lasted for three days, destroyed two thirds of the city, killed twenty thousand civilians, and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

Lieutenant-General William Norrie ( GOC XXX Corps ) organised the position and started to construct three defended " boxes ".

Recently, Greenland's three largest outlet glaciers have started moving faster, satellite data show.

Magellan had started out in Spain with five ships but by the time they reached the Marianas they were down to three ships and lost close to half their crew.

Within fifteen years, Handel, a dramatic genius, started three commercial opera companies to supply the English nobility with Italian opera, but the public came to hear the vocal bravura of the soloists rather than the music.

Other gags focused on Jon's poor social skills and inability to get a date ; before he started dating Liz, he often tried to get dates, usually without success ( in one strip, after failing to get a date with " Nancy ", he tried getting a date with her mother and grandmother ; he ended up getting " shot down by three generations ".

In 1642, while still a teenager, Blaise Pascal started some pioneering work on calculating machines and after three years of effort and 50 prototypes he invented the mechanical calculator.

Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.

All three started from the Mississippi River.

The history of German written lute music started with Arnolt Schlick ( c. 1460 – after 1521 ), who published in 1513 a collection of pieces that included 14 voice and lute songs and three solo lute pieces, alongside organ works.

* To get a game started faster, some house rules allow a player with no pieces on the board to bring their first piece into play on any roll, on a 1 or a 6, or allow multiple tries to roll a 6 ( with three rolls being the most popular ).

The Twins and the Red Sox started the weekend tied for 1st place and played against each other in Boston for the final three games of the season.

With that, the Nets employed all three Albert brothers during the franchise's history ; Al started his broadcast career with the Nets during their ABA days, while Steve called Nets games during the late 1970s and 1980s.

Tim Duncan and David Robinson won the 1999 championship with the Spurs, and Shaquille O ' Neal and Kobe Bryant started the 2000s with three consecutive championships for the Lakers.

When St. Louis was trailing 3 – 1 with one out in the sixth inning of Game 7, Smith started a rally with a base hit to left field, eventually scoring the first of the team's three runs that inning.

Smith started Game 1 and subsequently registered three putouts and one assist in the field, but went hitless in four at-bats in the Cardinals ' 4 – 2 loss.

On three separate occasions he had been employed by the three popes who preceded him as legate to Constantinople, his mission in each case having reference to the controversy started by Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople.