Well I would start by familiarising myself with proportion, with as you suggest some good books, only when you start to tie a quantity of flies will a tyer begin to start getting proportion right. I do suspect that some people will naturally have an eye for it.
First thing that anyone will need to properly teach themselves is tying in and wrapping thread down the hook shank, these obviously being the foundation for a well tied fly. Then tying in various materials would be the next thing to learn. Which would fit nicely into the next lesson of winding a smooth body with say floss, wools and tinsels. Learning to tie in materials with the minimum number of thread wraps will help immensely in keeping bodies neat. Ribbing would come next for me and then tying in a hackle at the head, I would also at this stage be tying thorax covers, (think PTN). After getting around wrapping a head hackle move onto a body hackle (Palmer) which would lead nicely to ribbing the Palmer to secure it. Finishing and varnishing the head would only be last because that would all that is left to do once your fly is completed.
Once your completing well executed and proportional flies other things that take your fancy will begin to be incorporated, such as feather, fur and synthetic wings, muddler heads, sculpin wool, no on will ever stop learning new things.
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