Sentences with phrase «clean first draft»

I write a clean first draft (except for a 50k word novel I wrote in twelve days for the 2012 NaNoWriMo challenge — and that was a huge mess), send it to beta readers / editors, make changes I agree with — then publish the books.
I beta read sometimes, but due to my «day job» of freelance line editor, I'm a terrible beta reader for rough drafts (unless you're the type to produce pretty clean first drafts).
After they've learned to effectively polish their manuscript, it helps them write a cleaner first draft.

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Fortunately, I do have a number of already written first drafts for stories that I just need to get cleaned up, edited, and out there.
If an editor is given a first draft and asked turn it into a structurally sound, grammatically clean, marketable manuscript, there are many more stages for her to go through to get to the end product than if she starts with a third or fourth draft.
In the first draft, I don't worry about how clean and tidy it is, although I'll admit I can't handle spelling and punctuation errors, so might clean those up as I go when I find them.
I cycle, Laura does many drafts working story into shape and cleaning, my wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch is an taker - outer, powering first draft and then putting things together and cleaning.
I have noticed the «bare bones» I do tend to wind up with after first drafting tend to be cleaner as I've gone along so there's hope!
My editorial services are for writers who have worked hard on their novels, have written a first draft and a second and a third and a fourth and have cleaned up grammar and typos and formatting and are ready for an editor's assistance to take it to the next level.
The Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA), at its twentieth session, requested its Chair, with the assistance of the secretariat and on the basis of submissions by Parties contained in documents FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.3 and FCCC / SBSTA / 2004 / MISC.4, and of inputs by Parties during the twentieth session of the SBSTA, to prepare a draft text for a decision on simplified modalities and procedures for small - scale afforestation and reforestation project activities under the clean development mechanism and on measures to facilitate the implementation of these project activities, for consideration by the SBSTA at its twenty - first session.
Speaking to lawyers at Fennemore Craig (an Arizona - based law firm and ROSS partner), Katz reports that «[ROSS] generates clean memos, and while it's no Hemingway, it offers up a functional first draft filled with summaries of applicable case law, some basic analysis, and a straightforward conclusion.
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