You must
think as a professional author, if you really want to gain literary success from your writing.
Not exact matches
Expressed
thoughts belong to articles»
authors and can not be used
as a
professional advice.
Today she works
as an independent consultant, speaker, and
author providing
professional development to school districts and organizations in the areas of science and STEM formative assessment, understanding student
thinking, teaching science for conceptual understanding, and designing effective instruction.
Using the Fountas & Pinnell Benchmark requires extensive
professional development,
as the child is measured on a variety of skills including instructional and independent reading abilities, plus «emphasis on
thinking about the
author's craft.»
Agents will have to became Writers Scouts, do their own research rather that being the writers search for the right Agent, and Publishers should start
thinking as professional football teams, making their
authors the best, supporting and coaching them to become even better, and marketing their
authors like mad.
I
think the problem here is not so much with «writer» vs «
author»
as it is with the writer of this post's general confusion about what «
professional» means.
I
think that hubpages
as a website goes that well thanks to
authors like you who write such interesting,
professional and needed hubs.
Seems to me that a chance to get it into the hands of someone trained to respond but to respond
as — or «on behalf of» readers,
as we tend to
think of it in
professional mainstream criicism — could be incredibly useful for an
author community that talks to itself all day and night.
Self - publishing, on the other hand, contains both
professional full - time
authors who spend time and money marketing their books
as well
as people who just
think it would be fun to put an ebook up on Amazon and never spend any time marketing.
So many indies
think they need a «
professional website»
as well
as a blog in order to be «real
authors», but here you are — a trad pubbed
author — supporting my advice: One site is plenty, people!
I write it
as an
author,
as a
professional blogger, and
as someone
thinking on how the publicist might develop their efforts.
I also
think they are right to try to establish a threshold or standard for what constitutes «
professional,» because there is indeed a wide range between self - published
authors who write well and produce well - edited, well - formatted books and those who, frankly, have little grasp of the fundamentals of writing — basic grammar, punctuation, and syntax
as well
as plot, characterization, voice, and the other aspects of writing that can make or break a story.
Professional book covers cost money (but not as much as you might think), and often, authors end up asking themselves: does a professional book cover actually get you more click
Professional book covers cost money (but not
as much
as you might
think), and often,
authors end up asking themselves: does a
professional book cover actually get you more click
professional book cover actually get you more clicks and sales?
Now, before you take issue with the word
professional or
think that I'm trying to insult people, all I mean is that many indie
authors don't treat their writing and their book promotion
as a business.
Professional education,
as the Carnegie
authors point out, can and should be a special time, where the professions not only prepare new members for practice, but also push them — and the profession
as a whole — to
think about the field's aspirations and to face hard questions.
About the
author: Michelle Dumas is a multiply - certified, national - award - winning
professional resume writer and career marketing expert widely recognized
as pioneering
thought - leader and trend - setter in the employment services industry.
Wendy Enelow, Co-Owner of Career
Thought Consortium and
author of many resume writing books, articulates in one of her blogs the need to capture her clients» accomplishments: «
As professional resume writers, we all know that a great deal of a resume's effectiveness is based on accomplishments — what a job seeker has done to improve operations, increase revenues, strengthen bottom - line profits, reduce operating costs, enhance business processes, upgrade technologies, and so much more.»