10 Things I Wish I Had Known
About Being an Author When I first started writing my author blog (about four and a half years ago), I had
Not exact matches
For example, if you
were an
author writing a book
about how to drive traffic to a website, you need to find an example of how your business suffered
when it didn't have traffic to its site.
When author and blogger Mark Manson
was about to get married, he reached out for some advice.
If you
're unsure
about what your goal for the book
is, read this piece
about the mistakes that
authors make
when framing the results they
are looking for, and how to better frame.
A book
about the prince written by US
author Sally Bedell Smith claims that
when travelling to America in first class — naturally to reduce his carbon footprint — he reportedly complained that the upper class deck
was «incredibly uncomfortable.»
«
When we have to think about our failures - that puts us in a negative mood and research has shown that when people are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead author Hristina Nikolova explai
When we have to think
about our failures - that puts us in a negative mood and research has shown that
when people are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead author Hristina Nikolova explai
when people
are in a negative mood state, they tend to indulge to make themselves feel better,» lead
author Hristina Nikolova explained.
«
When people
are surprised on Twitter, they
are going to tweet
about it and that
's how things can spread very quickly,» says O'Neil
's boss, Dave Kerpen, CEO of Likable Local, and
author of Likeable Business (McGraw - Hill, 2012).
The book
is particularly helpful, says Branson, because the
authors explain how to build and successfully channel new power: «It
's a useful lens to use
when thinking
about how business has changed, how to spread ideas or start a movement, or create change.»
«Relative deprivation
is an idea that says that
when we make judgments
about ourselves, we judge ourselves next to our immediate peers — people like us in the same room as us — not to the world at large,» Gladwell said in a recent interview with
author Daniel H. Pink.
When Steve Case, the billionaire co-founder of AOL, first met J. D. Vance,
author of «Hillbilly Elegy,» the best - selling book
about the industrial decline of the Midwest, Mr. Case told him, «I really love the book but there
is a part of it I don't love.»
Futurist, change management specialist and «X: The Experience
When Business Meets Design»
author Brian Solis sits down with The Young Turks» Cenk Uygur to talk
about the past, present and future and how more and faster change
is coming, and the only question
is whether you
're going to
be a part of that change or a victim of it.
About the
Author: Sam has
been investing his own money since 1995
when he first opened an online brokerage account.
Understand the Annuity Product - In Plain Language Annie Logue of the Root of All, Chicago on the Cheap, and
author of several Money and Investing Dummies books
about asks; «
When are annuity investment products a good idea?»
«
When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it
was in late 2017, so we
were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel
about these market stabilization proposals that
are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the
authors of the study.
While this strategy works just fine for large publishers that already have established brands and get thousands of shares on any new article they publish (such as Mashable or TechCrunch), a more pragmatic approach
is needed for just
about every other business.It's true that getting quality inbound links starts with great content on your client's website, but the missing link
is getting journalists, contributors,
authors, and editors at quality publications to become aware of that content so that they can link to it
when writing relevant stories / articles.
In my experience, the phrase usually pops up
when an
author wants to write
about a topic just because he finds it interesting, but feels like readers won't care
about the topic unless he can convince them it
's somehow important.
I mean seriously, if it wasn't for those that
were non-Christians in Europe, such as the Enlightenment
authors, who constantly wrote
about how wrong these acts
were then maybe they would not have ended
when they did.
The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can
be understood differently
when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts
were written, what other Old Testament
authors had to say
about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes
about it in his second letter.
CNN: My take: «Atheist» isn't a dirty word, congresswoman Chris Stedman,
author of «Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious,» writes that
when Rep. Kyrsten Sinema's campaign said «the terms non-theist, atheist or non-believer
are not befitting of her life's work or personal character» it implied that there
is something unfavorable
about nonbelievers.
I re-read a book recently, and the
author wrote
about how she
was supposed to speak at an event, and
when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what
is saving your life right now.
I agree that the
author receiving a «like» feels better
about the feedback than they do
when receiving a «dislike», but the same can
be said for full comments of agreement or disagreement.
When you read in the Bible
about proclaiming Jesus as Lord, following Jesus, taking up your cross, eternal reward, inheriting the Kingdom, life in the Spirit, faithful living, and on and on and on, the
author who wrote that text
was primarily thinking of how we should live as followers of Jesus so that we can experience the life God meant for us to live.
As
author Penny Lernoux has noted: «
When the Alliance for Progress was finally buried at the end of the 1960s, about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961 when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 2
When the Alliance for Progress
was finally buried at the end of the 1960s,
about the only thing that the Latin American countries had to show for it
was an enormous foreign debt: 19.3 billion dollars compared to 8.8 billion in 1961
when the program was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 2
when the program
was launched» (Cry of the People [Doubleday], p. 211).
Maybe the Holy Spirit
is at work around the world to bring multiple
authors and pastors and theologians to similar ideas
about similar things all at once, and so
when I read something in someone else's book that sounds a lot like something I have written, but they don't give me credit, it
is not that they «borrowed» from me, but because both of us
were listening to what the Spirit has
been whispering to minds all over the world.
The first, ascribed to Peter, exists in part in a papyrus fragment which describes the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus and breaks off
when the
author says, «But I, Simon Peter, and Andrew my brother, took our nets and went away to the sea, and with us there
was Levi, son of Alphaeus, whom the Lord...» This gospel
was known to and criticized by Serapion, bishop of Antioch,
about 190.
So it
was with great excitement
when I learned that one of my favorite
authors who writes
about the church,
was publishing a book
about Jesus.
The
author reviews a book by Stanley Hauerwas:
When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their propone
When Hauerwas asserts that liberal Christians
are those who take «humans, not God, as the center of Christian faith,» or
when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity» is that «humans are the measure of all that is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough about what liberalism and modernity mean to their propone
when he says that one of «the most cherished conceits of modernity»
is that «humans
are the measure of all that
is,» he reveals that he has not thought hard enough
about what liberalism and modernity mean to their proponents.
He added that the
author's comments
were «dismissive of children
being harmed», saying it
was «naivety at best and, at worst, a dismissal of understanding that
when we talk
about indecent images of children, we
're talking
about a crime scene where children have
been abused.»
But
when the Rev. Paul F.M. Zahl read several of King
's novels, he learned something new
about the
author: There
's a lot of faith behind his fright.
I re-read a book recently, and the
author wrote
about how she
was supposed to speak at an event, and
when she asked which topic they would like to here her expound upon, they said, well, just tell us what...
It
's sad
when the
author of this story makes it sound like she knows what she
is talking
about and the unknowing person believes that the writer
is correct.
I vividly recall
being crushed for
about a week
when I found out Stephen King (the
author)
was a believer.
This does not help us
when we try to figure out what a Biblical
author is talking
about when he writes
about «baptism.»
The United States
is one of a dwindling number of nations unenthusiastic
about the application of world law
when applied to its own conduct, but for reasons supplied by the
author, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
is still a tool for people of conscience to use in the struggle for a world more respectful of human dignity.
talks so confidently
about the inerrant, perfect, infallible character of the original Autographs of the Bible
when no one has seen one for more than eighteen centuries Moreover, it
is clear that originally no one thought the wording
was perfect since copyists, translators, and
authors had little fear of changing it.
So
when scholars write
about the Old Testament, they primarily seek to understand only what the original human
authors and original human audience understood
when the text
was written.
Here
is a page that addresses some of the many lies by DB: http://tfninsider.org/2012/03/02/more-zombie-lies-from-david-barton/ (This
was the
author whose book
about Jefferson
was yanked by his publisher
when it came to light that
is was chock full of misinformation.)
However, we should recognize that
when we do so, we
are speaking quite differently than the biblical
authors who naively thought they
were talking
about actual events.
The impression you will get from the book
is that the
authors are simply teaching what Jesus, Paul, and John really thought and cared
about,
when in reality, what you will
be getting
is a strong Calvinistic interpretation of the New Testament.
As Yves Simon and Heinrich Rommen long ago demonstrated, there
is room for disagreement within the tradition of natural law
about how one envisions the role played by God as the
author of human nature, or
about the tortuous problem of culpability
when there
is deeply rooted perversity of basic inclinations.
My own first reaction
when I heard
about the USPS honor
was to recall a January 1954 letter to Robert and Sally Fitzgerald, with whom the young
author had lived for a brief period.
Was this
author equally appalled
about the prayer breakfast earlier this month,
when President Obama tried to use biblical phrases like «for unto whom much
is given, much shall
be required» and «love thy neighbor as thyself» out of context as justification for his tax and economic policies?
When the
author talks
about interpretation of an ancient book, he means to take literally the scripture the way you
are putting.
When we read
about Paul struggling mightily so that Christians in small churches will learn to live in Christian harmony, perhaps we see an alternative vision of church — one in which all the theological muscle of the
author of Philippians
is marshaled merely to get Euodia and Syntyche to get along (Phil.
The
author's degrees
are in philosophy, not theology, and I think it shows one of his biases
when he goes on
about where his Mormon counterparts got their degrees.
About 3000 years ago, the
author of the book of Sirach had this to say:
When, in the beginning, the Lord created human
beings, he left them free to do as they wished (free will)....
I remember
when I
was researching the first flop, I came across Gesine's (the recipe
author's) web site, where she happened to
be giving a polite but stern lecture to others with the same question,
about the importance of using her recommended ingredients.
Also the recipe
author says not to worry
about any little lumps in the cake batter - I ignored the small ones and it
is notable
when eating the cake in an unpleasant way (texture-wise, as I like my cake to
be smooth and fluffy) so I would recommend making sure it
is lump free before pouring into pans.
This
is an abstract of an observational study that can establish only association but does not prove causality; this
is confirmed by the
authors themselves in the press release
when they state ``... so we can not say that low kilojoule beverage cause these problems... there may
be other factors
about people who drink more diet drinks that could explain the connection.»
One of our goals as
authors of Lunchbox Solutions
is to educate people, because it
is only
when we
are educated
about nutrition — and the lack of nutrition in our foods — that we have the ability to make informed choices
about our health.