Sentences with phrase «possible thing any author»

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Most authors he's spoken to generally want three things: to do a good job telling their story, to get to the widest audience possible and to earn a living doing so.

Missouri Synod theologians had traditionally affirmed the inerrancy of the Bible, and, although such a term can mean many things, in practice it meant certain rather specific things: harmonizing of the various biblical narratives; a somewhat ahistorical reading of the Bible in which there was little room for growth or development of theological understanding; a tendency to hold that God would not have used within the Bible literary forms such as myth, legend, or saga; an unwillingness to reckon with possible creativity on the part of the evangelists who tell the story of Jesus in the Gospels or to consider what it might mean that they write that story from a post-Easter perspective; a general reluctance to consider that the canons of historical exactitude which we take as givens might have been different for the biblical authors.

You see, evil is defined by the absence of good, and so God by being the author of complete goodness or Shalom, makes possible the existence of things which are not good, or are evil.

Prof. Gordon Pipa, a senior author of the study, says that since it now seems to be possible that machines can be programmed to make human like moral decisions it is crucial that society engages in an urgent and serious debate, «we need to ask whether autonomous systems should adopt moral judgements, if yes, should they imitate moral behavior by imitating human decisions, should they behave along ethical theories and if so, which ones and critically, if things go wrong who or what is at fault?»

«Our understanding of protein structure, the virus and the virus life cycle is allowing us to do things that we didn't think was possible even a few years ago,» says Gary Nabel, chief scientific officer at drugmaker Sanofi and an author on the Nature Medicine paper.

«The kinds of things that once existed only in the realm of science fiction movies like Inception and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind are now experimentally possible,» says Steve Ramirez, a graduate student in the lab of HHMI investigator Susumu Tonegawa and first author of the new work.

When authors work with paid editors, one of the smartest things they do is pre-clean their manuscripts every way possible, so that the editor they pay is working at a higher level than easily fixed typos and misspellings.

Weiner advised authors to tweet about the things they love (for Weiner, it's the reality TV romance competition The Bachelor); to tweet about the authors they love (Roxane Gay and Gary Shteyngart are two of her favorites); and to tweet about their own projects «sparingly, carefully, modestly, thoughtfully, and absolutely as little as possible» — and let their now - loyal crew of social media followers spread the word.

If publishers let Amazon get away with this, Amazon will gain that much more power in the industry, and eventually publishers will have to eat those costs too, which will be passed on to authors... There's no good route out of this, and letting Amazon get away with this is definitely the worst possible thing that could happen.

Moving from wannabe author to the real thing is totally possible this coming year.

In 2017, we focused all of our development power and energy on building as many new things for the indie author community as possible.

And people searching for «self publishing» may be interested in some of the things I write because there is a lot of confusion and misunderstandings about the term; savvy authors exploring all their publishing options are wise to get as many different perspectives as possible to make an informed decision.

One of the cool things about self - publishing right now is that it's very possible for a «mid-list» author to make a good income.

The problem is, getting it out there is the worst possible thing a writer can do for his career if his story isn't ready, and the author is never the best determiner of whether it's ready or not.

It won't do many things that another Kindle won't (the interface is virtually identical to the other new models) but if you want to get the words from the author's pen into your eyes the sleekest way possible, the Kindle Voyage is the way to do it.

Which brings us to the most important thing that you can do as an author: Figure out as far in advance as possible what your publisher's plans are for your book — but not in a confrontational way.

Money and fame are side issues, and my guess is that all things being equal, there are very few authors who don't want the widest possible reach when it comes to readership.

We try to be as transparent as possible and the inferences here that we are trying to take advantage of authors in no way reflects a business where, day in and day out, we spend hours with authors on the phone, often recommending they NOT do things in order to save them money.

The thing that so many authors are struggling to wrap their head around, myself included, is that self - publishing is possible.

And there is no other way to do that but to try as many things as possible: offer a giveaway, host an author Q&A event, post an excerpt or a short story, post a picture with a quote, organize a poll for your fans to choose your next character's name, etc..

The whole thing is designed to benefit Amazon while paying authors as little as possible.

The most important thing you can do as a self - published author, however, is to make sure your ebook is available through as many retail channels as possible.

There's no reason why a traditionally published author couldn't do the same thing, and in this day and age there's every incentive for everyone to try and generate as much attention as possible.

All of those things are possible for indie authors but there would have to be a lot more hustle and work for an indie author to get those things.

«The thing you absolutely must do is straighten out your mortgage financing before retiring because you might not qualify with your reduced income after retirement,» said Casey Fleming, author of «The Loan Guide: How to Get the Best Possible Mortgage.»