Line editors make suggestions about a final draft that subtly massage the language of the manuscript so that it reads as well as it possibly can, while retaining the full flavor of the author's original voice.
Not exact matches
Derek Thompson — The Atlantic: As a business columnist and
editor for The Atlantic, Thompson walks a fine
line trying to
make complex stories accessible for a large audience.
BGOV's veteran
editors would gather and roll their eyes as Winkler, on the
line from New York, tore apart each headline and
made them rewrite it in Bloomberg - ese.
Peter Gianetti,
editor of a housewares trade publication called HomeWorld Business, says most coffeemakers and small appliances are
made in China, although a few
lines are still
made in the United States or Mexico.
«My
editor made me do it» is, of course, an old
line among reporters, but in this case, at least with some, it seemed to be more than a convenient evasion of responsibility.
In this week's Fashion Q&A;, Cosmopolitan.com's style
editor, Charles Manning, answers your questions about high heels versus flats, the best underwear for avoiding panty
lines, and how to
make denim on denim work for you.
It allows the ensemble cast to shine without showing off: Michael Keaton, fresh from Birdman,
makes a second, perhaps even better comeback as Bostonian Robby Robinson who heads up the paper's investigative team; Liev Schreiber is the paper's new
editor, an outsider and Jewish in a heavily Catholic city; Mark Ruffalo and Rachel McAdams are reporters on the front
line, knocking on doors and digging out documents.
Sestero, a
line producer and leading actor of The Room, detailed his experiences
making what his subtitle declared «The Greatest Bad Movie Ever
Made» and the friendship with writer / director / star / producer /
editor Tommy Wiseau out of which the film was born.
NEW Sounds from the Cold — interviews with supervising sound
editor David Lewis Yewdall and special sound effects designer Alan Howarth NEW Between the
Lines — an interview with novelization author Alan Dean Foster Audio Commentary by director John Carpenter and actor Kurt Russell John Carpenter's The Thing: Terror Takes Shape — a documentary on the
making of THE THING featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, special effects make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
making of THE THING featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell, special effects
make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby ca
make - up designer Rob Bottin, legendary matte artist Albert Whitlock plus members of the cast and crew (80 minutes — SD) Outtakes (5 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes from the electronic press kit featuring interviews with John Carpenter, Kurt Russell and Rob Bottin (12 minutes — SD) Vintage featurettes — The
Making of a Chilling Tale and The Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
Making of a Chilling Tale and The
Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby
Making of THE THING (1982 — 14 minutes — SD) Vintage Product Reel — contains a promotional condensed version of the film with additional footage not in the film (19 minutes — SD) Vintage Behind - the - Scenes footage (2 minutes — SD) Annotated Production Archive — Production Art and Storyboards, Location Scouting, Special
Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby ca
Make - up Effects, Post Production (48 minutes — SD) Network TV Broadcast version of THE THING (92 minutes — SD) Teaser Trailer Theatrical Trailers (U.S. and German Trailer) TV spots Radio Spots Still Gallery (behind - the - scenes photos, posters and lobby cards)
You can imagine the notes a good
line editor might have
made on the script, deleting a redundant scene here, expanding a transition there, gently reminding the director - screenwriter to watch out for his own authorial tics.
Bottom
Line: Google News» lack of
editors makes this a site that's not always the best for student use; kids may lack the background knowledge to judge whether particular stories are credible sources.
Copy
editor Rusty Blackwell enjoys the characteristic smoothness with which the Honda's 189 - hp, 2.4 - liter in -
line four
makes power.
EDITOR WES RAYNAL: While the price of this 2013 Nissan Altima 3.5 SL
makes me gulp a bit, it's really in
line with the competition.
This book is bursting with real life examples and bottom -
line advise to create professional proposals that will
make editors sit up and take notice.
If you're a good writer, and you're published, you have to toe the company and
editor line, or they used their contract to
make you.
We should be very picky about who we let
line edit our work, especially as we need to
make sure our
editor is a good match for our voice.
I'm guessing that this is going to
make not one iota of difference in the way Samhain pays the authors that it promotes to Samhain Gold; Samhain then gets to send
editors to conference (comped)(provided that they take pitches only for the Samhain Gold
line), and we have a very simple test for allowing e-publishers: If you believe you can guarantee decent royalties for a good number of authors (although not for all of them), you're in.
You'll need to
make more changes based on the feedback of the beta readers and
line editor.
IDW CEO and
Editor - in - Chief Chris Ryall added, «Rovio has taken what was once a captivating game and built it into an interesting world filled with interesting and, uh, feathered characters who will
make a perfect addition to our growing
line of fun, all - ages comics.»
This trend will continue as independent
editors start offering affordable editing services through the internet and first
line authors start doing the math and realizing that they can
make more money by self - publishing their books for $ 2.99 - $ 4.99 than they ever did by going with one of the «big six» publishers.
Besides the author, the publisher has to invest in a decent
editor, a cover artist (and probably cost for the images on the cover as well, models have to
make money too), then you have a
line editor, possibly a different galley
editor, promotions department (depending on how big the company is), then with paperbacks you'd have print costs, distribution costs, freight, advertising....
A good
line editor is skilled at understanding what
makes a particular author unique.
Although I look at each scene separately, we can't assume that every
editor who calls themselves a developmental
editor would do the same, so it's critical to
make sure that this stage is covered somewhere in our editing process, either by self - editing or by our developmental
editor or
line editor (or whatever they choose to call themselves).
Most
line editors will point out technical errors or logical inconsistencies when they jump out, because they're trying to
make your writing better, and
editors tend to be perfectionists.
A
line edit may get you to say, «With a few strokes of the pen on each
line, [my
editor]
made it one million percent better.
Those gray
lines can
make it hard to find good
line editors or point out what
makes line editing unique.
Maybe we self - edit at the scene level, or maybe our developmental
editor or
line editor looks at each scene (some do and some don't), but we want to
make sure we're checking that each scene adds to our story.
First, the terminology —
line editing, copy editing, proofreading — seems to mean something slightly different to every author,
editor, publisher, magazine, agent, and online journal, and this
makes it tough for the author seeking an
editor to know exactly what it is they're asking for.
Of course that doesn't mean a developmental
editor won't point out issues with mechanics or a
line editor won't
make suggestions regarding characterization, but the focus of each type of editing is essentially different, and by the time a manuscript is ready for
line editing it shouldn't have many big - picture issues left, which allows the
line editor to focus on your lovely prose and how to
make it even better.
If I were to nit - pick, I would say that the formatting appears to be off (e.g., no
line break before «quote - book»), and all that extra code (e.g., «edition =
editor =»)
makes it harder to read.
That's what
makes well - done
line editing so difficult — and why some folks insist that signs of well - done
line editing actually are what an
editor necessarily shouldn't do.
You've encountered these before: why it's essential to get an agent, how to attract the agent, why you need to revise, revise, and revise again, how a writer's critique group can provide useful feedback, why it helps to share your manuscript with editing professionals (developmental
editors for plot and style problems,
line or copy
editors for
making the grammar and syntax road - worthy)... and all the rest.
Any professional
editor of trade books knows the Chicago Manual of Style well and as a matter of course automatically
makes changes that are in
line with it.
Hire a
line editor who can help you to
make sure your finished product is polished and ready for publication.
One of the biggest mistakes many authors
make is in thinking they can get away with not hiring a
line editor.
(6) Revisions You'll need to
make more changes based on the feedback of the beta readers and
line editor.
The
editor assigned to each project engages in
line - editing, copy - editing and fact - checking in addition to
making recommendations to the writer on issues such as context, consistency and tightening chapters that meander.
That means that sometimes a
line editor will
make actual content changes to a work.
1 Structure, Plan and Write 1.1 Turning Real Life Into Fiction 1.2 Kurt Vonnegut on the The Shapes of Stories 1.3 The 12 Key Pillars of Novel Construction 1.4 Plot Worksheets to Help You Organize Your Thoughts 1.5 The Snowflake Method For Designing A Novel 1.6 Seven Tips From Ernest Hemingway on How to Write Fiction 1.7 Study the Writing Habits of Ernest Hemingway 1.8
Making Your Characters Come Alive 1.9 Vision, Voice and Vulnerability 1.10 10 Points on Craft by Barry Eisler 1.11 Coming up with Character Names 1.12 Using the Right «Camera Angle» for Your Writing 1.13 The Art of «Layering» in Fiction Writing 1.14 Weaving Humor Into Your Stories 1.15 On Telling Better Stories 1.16 The 25 Best Opening
Lines in Western Literature 1.17 6 Ways to Hook Your Readers from the Very First
Line 1.18 Plot Development: Climax, Resolution, and Your Main Character 1.19 How to Finish A Novel 2 Get Feedback 2.1 Finding Beta Readers 2.2 Understanding the Role of Beta Readers 2.3 Find Readers By Writing Fan Fiction 2.4 How Fan Fiction Can
Make You a Better Writer 3 Edit Your Book 3.1 Find an
Editor 3.2 Directory of Book
Editors 3.3 Self Editing for Fiction Writers 3.4 The Top Ten Book Self Editing Tips 3.5 Advice for self - editing your novel 3.6 Tips on How to Edit a Book 4 Format and Package Your Book 4.1 The Thinking That Goes Into
Making a Book Cover 4.2 Design Your Book Cover 4.3 Format Your Book 4.4 Choosing a Title for Your Fiction Book 5 Publish 5.1 A Listing of Scams and Alerts from Writers Beware 5.2 Publishing Advice from JA Konrath 5.3 How to Find a Literary Agent 5.4 Understanding Literary Agents 5.5 Association of Authors» Representatives 5.6 Self - Publishing Versus Traditional Publishing 5.7 Lulu, Lightning Source or Create Space?
Editors needed the spacing in between
lines to write in comments and
make markups.
She then claims she'll
make your story so good that it will grab the reader's or the
editor's (in traditional publishing) attention from the first
line.
Carolyn Spencer Brown,
Editor - in - Chief of Cruise Critic, talks about some of the new luxury yacht products and innovations in cruising, and the cruise
lines» focus on
making sure that the passenger experience is an exciting one — regardless of what ship you are on or where you're sailing.
Additionally, the new
line of Pokémon toys [AD2]
made by Wicked Cool Toys and distributed by Character Options was crowned the winner of the Toy Fair 2018
Editor's Choice Award, which was voted on by media visiting the show.
Made it so
lines are not rendered when taking the screenshot for the preview image of levels saved in the level
editor
«The
editors of CMP's Game Developer magazine have named the finalists for the 2007 Front
Line Awards, the magazine's tenth annual evaluation of the year's best game -
making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engine, middleware, and books.
The teams battled it out over rounds such as name that villain, remember the next
line to a classic 90s hit (beautifully performed by Develop
editor James Batchelor) and a special round relating specifically to games
made locally in Guildford.
Heck, the very first
line of the entire SourceWatch entry lists being said Technical
Editor as your job, with the first paragraph
making clear how you are a bought and paid for lapdog servant of Big Coal.
The evidence for this is in precisely what happens in venues like E&E that have effectively dispensed with substantive peer review for any papers that follow the
editor's political
line — you end up with a backwater of poorly presented and incoherent contributions that
make no impact on the mainstream scientific literature or conversation.
Google may end the Nexus brand in favour of the Google Play Edition.Eldar Murtazin,
editor in chief of mobile - review, tweeted that 2015 will be the end of the
line for Nexus as Play Edition takes over.Currently Google Play Edition handsets are
made by... Read more
CAREER COACH JEN: The
editor made an interesting choice to include Jobacle.com as the first
line of professional experience, and
made a strong choice to include in there the recognized media outlets for which Jobacle has garnered attraction.