Sentences with phrase «all over the manuscript»

If you obsess over the manuscript for days on end, without giving yourself time away, you won't do as good a job at revisions.

In the popular consciousness, writers spend years laboring over their manuscripts, honing their ideas and then struggle to be noticed.

A native English speaker, Matarese had often been asked by colleagues at Glaxo to look over their manuscripts.

Yes, THAT Ken Russell) over a manuscript sent to him by a beautiful Russian woman, Katya Orlova (Michelle Pfeiffer).

During that alone time, she reads over his manuscript.

For Final Proofs, I ask that you send me over your manuscript to my Kindle.

Authors maintain full autonomy over their manuscript from start to finish.

Writing a rough draft and handing over your manuscript too early will cost you.

Go over your manuscript again.

My rates are still competitive, and I labour over each manuscript as if I had written it myself.

In general, professional proofreading / editing is not the same as having friends or family look over your manuscript.

So I don't need people to go over this manuscript in huge detail, that's what I'm paying Deb for!

At least one (preferably two) qualified individual needs to read over your manuscript from cover to cover in an effort to seek out those nasty typos and misspellings that your word processor didn't catch.

Conversely, I've know authors who labored intensely and lovingly over their manuscript, only to publish but never really sell.

When you hand over your manuscript to get formatted, there are a few things that will happen.

You retain control and copyright over your manuscript.

The Charming Doodles Charles Darwin's Children Left All Over the Manuscript of «On the Origin of Species» (Brain Pickings): «In contemplating family, work, and happiness, Charles Darwin proclaimed: «Children are one's greatest happiness, but often & often a still greater misery.

There's nothing quite like slaving over a manuscript for a few months, getting it polished and ready, hitting that «publish» button, falling asleep and enjoying the thrill of a book completed, and then waking up to reviews of your brand new baby on Amazon and an inbox flooded with «What's next?»

Publishers do still fight over manuscripts from «hot» authors and you still see agents taking projects to auction, with advances being paid that may never earn out because of over-exuberance.

The more times your editor goes over your manuscript, the more errors that will be caught.

I also can get by in German, though I don't claim fluency, so I am able to do some basic quality control and look over the manuscripts.

Well, what do you think your reaction would be like when you toiled over a manuscript only to get it back from the editor awash in red ink?

Make sure you've had professional, objective eyes look over your manuscript before you publish to avoid scathing reviews.

Make sure you've had professional, objective eyes look over your manuscript before you publish to avoid negative reviews.

In the midst of all the agonizing over a manuscript, one of the last things a writer wants to do, is add another task to her «to - do» list.

You can't have too many eyes looking at a book and yes, small presses will do editing, but I would also have a friend or three pore over the manuscript looking for typos.

At that time, I hope to share the work with some more beta readers, then get some freelance editors to go over the manuscript.

Once you hand over your manuscript for a traditional publishing company to publish, you are essentially giving up all rights and control over the final product.

One aspect of self - publishing that has been so attractive to many authors is the greater sense of control over their manuscripts, and editing is no different.

One of the many things that drives authors to consider self - publication is the desire to retain some control over their manuscripts.

This includes what questions to ask yourself as you go back over your manuscript to make sure your book has a great hook, tight pacing, and compelling characters.

But, truth is, most writers still just want to be left alone to write, hand over the manuscript and let someone else do the work of bringing their book to market.

The key here, though, is that the error rate should be as minimal as possible, and having many eyes look over a manuscript is key.

No matter how many times you go over your manuscript, you WILL NOT SEE the errors.

All writers experience fears when handing over a manuscript to an editor, from potential distress upon receiving edits, to the nerves of getting on the phone and talking it all over, and finally to the feeling of being overwhelmed while implementing changes.

You may be scared to hand over your manuscript to an editor.

The books are mainly through e-publishers, and I question if they even have editors that look over these manuscripts.

First off, if you're already reading this blog you know the importance of hiring an editor to go over your manuscript.

I am dreading the red pen scribbled all over the manuscript but I know that it can only make my book better and make me a better writer.

-- is that the vast majority of authors still want Big Five contracts and most agents are doing just fine in come - hithering the majors and ferrying over those manuscripts, thanks very much, jingle, jingle, see you later, baby.

I'll go over your manuscript and look for technical errors.

Have a professional editor look over your manuscript once more before sending it to print.

To be blunt, this means you need cover art that doesn't look like Photoshop threw up all over your manuscript.

«I've slaved over this manuscript for years.

No worries as I've been polishing and buffing up to the present (my excellent editor, Jodie Renner has cautioned me that I'm agonizing over the manuscript).

BookBaby take a few days to check over your manuscript and then prepare it for distribution across the various channels.

This author, who was a New York Times best seller, talked with a group of us about how they never sent anything to their publisher without first having their own editor go over the manuscript.

An editor's keen eye for detail casts a giant net over your manuscript.

That's not to say an author — published or not — doesn't need someone to go over the manuscript JUST BEFORE SUBMISSION to check for grammar, punctuation and spelling.

Another thing that makes self publishing more of the way to go is that you, as the author, own total rights over your manuscript.