Learn from other authors: Watch what they do and the results they get and don't be afraid to ask why they are doing something a certain way.
You can definitely
learn from other authors, but your content needs to be 100 % original.
Being part of the Non-Fiction Writers Conference was a great way to connect and
learn from other authors.
The Author Learning Center was created with the purpose to help authors
learn from other authors to improve their craft, understand their publishing options, plus gain insights on marketing and bookselling.
You might also spend time
learning from other authors and experts (this article by Morris Rosenthal is a good start).
Not exact matches
A long time ago, I
learned a very effective way to do this
from none
other than influential
author and podcast host Tim Ferriss.
His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department;
authoring many books about finance
from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many
other ventures, commuting
from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have
learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.
It contains 45 stories
from numerous
authors about how they
learned to love God, love themselves, love
others, and love their enemies.
The Practice of Love contains 45 stories
from numerous
authors about how they
learned to love God, love themselves, love
others, and love their enemies.
Many and sometimes most of the weekly papers are by
authors who actually wanted to remember that they
learned something crucial, and that experience rarely keeps them
from being critical and even playing the texts off against each
other.
Note that I am not making this stuff up, but have
learned what I am writing
from reading
other authors and
from studying Scripture in community with
other people.
The Milk Memos How Real Moms
Learned to Mix Business with Babies — and How You Can, Too by Cate Colburn - Smith and Andrea Serrette (Tarcher / Penguin, $ 13.95 paper) These two
authors / moms met through a journal they kept in the IBM employee lactation room and, along with entries
from other breast - feeding IBM moms, created this humorous (but informative) book on issues facing mothers returning to work.
In addition to Online Politics 101, Epolitics.com also features two
other publications by
author Colin Delany,
Learning from Obama: Lessons for Online Communicators in 2009 and Beyond (the definitive guide to Barack Obama's 2008 online campaign) and How Candidates Can Use the Internet to Win in 2010.
Based on his experience as a marine ecologist and Congressional Fellow, he
authored «
Learning from the Octopus: How Secrets
from Nature Can Help Us Fight Terrorist Attacks, Natural Disasters, and Disease» (2012), among several
other recent books.
Babies are born with the ability to
learn and use language, a feature of human behavior that, like
other behavioral capabilities, emerged
from eons of biological evolution — a scientific explanation that
author Tom Wolfe rejects in his new book, The Kingdom of Speech.
What critics like English linguist Geoffrey Sampson,
author of Educating Eve: The «Language Instinct» Debate, seem to find most irksome is Pinker's wholehearted promotion of a linguistic model that views the human capacity for
learning language as distinct
from other abilities, such as building bridges or writing symphonies.
The results challenge the accepted belief that chimpanzees need to
learn from each
other how to use tools, and instead suggest that some (if not all) forms of tool - use are instead within their pre-existing behavioural repertoire (what the
authors call «latent solutions»).
He's joined on the paper by several
other members of both the CBMM and the McGovern Institute: first
author Joel Leibo, a researcher at Google DeepMind, who earned his PhD in brain and cognitive sciences
from MIT with Poggio as his advisor; Qianli Liao, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science; Fabio Anselmi, a postdoc in the IIT@MIT Laboratory for Computational and Statistical
Learning, a joint venture of MIT and the Italian Institute of Technology; and Winrich Freiwald, an associate professor at the Rockefeller University.
As the participants performed the tasks, an EEG cap recorded signals
from the brain, and the
authors applied statistical methods to extract those signals related to one
learning system or the
other.
At Uppsala University, you have the opportunity to listen to and
learn from Nobel laureates,
authors, politicians and many
other guests and friends.
We turn to tricks and techniques we've
learned over the past 10 years, some
from the chefs and cookbook
authors we work with,
others developed through lots of trial and error, right here in our kitchen.
Paul Oyer, an economics proessor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and
author of Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Economics I
Learned from Online Dating, says the marketplace of romantic partners functions a lot like any
other marketplace.
Although it makes sense for a couple to go on «date zero» (meet in person) before they grow too attached, there is a lot the pair can
learn from each
other by openly corresponding online before dating, the
authors» strictures notwithstanding.
There's a lot to
learn from the above study, but making assumptions
from one study, ignoring all the
other research, forgetting that
learning that is associated with the intellectual or creative problem solving areas are always treated differently to grouping in sport, drama or music, shows that there is a bias towards accepting the findings of this one study - maybe not by the
author, but by those in the community who are jumping on this study.
The
authors suggest that
other states
learn from «the danger of relying on statewide test scores as the sole measure of student achievement when these scores are used to make high - stakes decisions about teachers and schools as well as students.»
As early implementers, these educators have gone both to the «source» of the standards and used
other proxies for quality and alignment: They've worked directly with and
learned from the standards»
authors themselves and / or used tools created by them (e.g., the Publishers» Criteria developed by Student Achievement Partners and several
other groups).
eLearning developers tend to fixate on video and slideshow - style content as the «default» formats for digital
learning, probably because that's what most
authoring tools are geared toward, but consider for a moment how many people get their news and
other information
from podcasts or the radio.
«I hope this will serve as a catalyst for city leaders to take a look at where they might be falling short and identify
other cities they might
learn from,» says CRPE Senior Research Analyst Michael DeArmond, the report's lead
author.
The
authors outline three ways school districts can pay for Linked
Learning: (1) by reallocating resources away
from other activities; (2) by inspiring teachers and
other staff to volunteer their time and resources; and (3) by obtaining additional resources
from donors, philanthropies, or taxpayers.
Learning teams can use an LCMS to develop content using design templates, reusing content elements across courses and learning departments, importing and integrating content from other authoring tools, and publishing the content to multiple outputs and
Learning teams can use an LCMS to develop content using design templates, reusing content elements across courses and
learning departments, importing and integrating content from other authoring tools, and publishing the content to multiple outputs and
learning departments, importing and integrating content
from other authoring tools, and publishing the content to multiple outputs and devices.
She is the
author of The
Other Side of Curriculum: Lessons
from Learners (Heinemann, 2002) and Engaging the Disengaged: How Schools Can Help Struggling Students Succeed (Corwin, 2008), and editor of Powerful Designs for Professional
Learning (National Staff Development Council, 2004).
San Antonio's public school officials could
learn from their peers in
other U.S. cities where running public schools like charters empowers teachers, administrators, and parents,
author David Osborne said Monday night at a panel discussion on public education.
I think Jeff Goins said it best, «What I've
learned from watching
other successful
authors is it's not enough to write a good book.
One key factor to our success as
authors is what we have
learned from others along the way.
All
authors have so much to
learn from each
other.
It was included in the Writer's Digest Books Guide to Literary Agents as a sample query letter for
other authors to
learn from.
[In the first post about my Weird Indie Publishing Project, I explained why it was weird and stated that I would share my journey here so
other beginning indie
authors could benefit
from my success or failure and what I
learned by doing it.
Start
learning from and collaborating with
other authors.
For each event, you will have an opportunity to network and socialize with
other local
authors, and
learn from the founder of Jera Publishing, Kimberly Martin, as she shares her self - publishing knowledge with the group.
In light of his success, Manaher became fascinated with the complaints he heard
from other authors, all having to do with the fact that there was nowhere to
learn how to market their books.
Ask your neighborhood bookseller or librarian if they offer
author programming, and if not, suggest things you and your
other author friends would be interested in
learning from them.
You can join the Nonfiction
Authors Network via LinkedIn Groups here, and start asking questions, reading posts, and
learning from others.
Most of the
authors who've
learned the tools they need to succeed picked up those skills
from other authors.
Each year, hundreds of veteran
authors and those just
learning the craft of Christian fiction gather in a setting like this to hear skilled instructors, inspiring keynoters... to gain
from the insights of industry professionals... to interact with
other writers... and to present their ideas to agents and editors looking for stories like theirs, or to mentors who can help them move forward in their writing career.If you write Christian fiction — or want to
learn how — the ACFW conference is an investment worth making.
Or, did you
learn things during the process of writing, creating or selling your book that
other authors could
learn from?
What are some of the favorite success stories you've been part of, and what can
other authors and illustrators
learn from them?
But more importantly, we believe that
authors can
learn a lot
from each
other.
Twitter is a glorious hub filled to the brim with your favorite
authors, editors, agents, and
other publishing professionals, all having conversations that you can listen in on and
learn from.
From what I have
learned about
other writers, we all struggle to find a rhythm, but it is much harder when you are not only the
author but the publicist as well.
I keep watching
other authors and how they navigate these indie waters, and I love that we are all
learning from each
other.