Not exact matches
I I had spent most
of Saturday, February 29, 1992, Leap Year Day, working
through a stack
of books and notes I was using for a major paper on Transcendentalism, due in
draft at Cleveland State University in the Graduate English program.
The first two rounds
of the 2017 MLB
Draft are in the
books, which brings us to day two to get
through Round 10.
The timing
of the coordinated effort by Pressbooks and BiblioBoard is significant: the beta version
of Pressbooks Public is being created during the ongoing international November «NaNoWriMo» National Novel Writing Month project, which runs
through November and sees many fledgling and veteran writers produce a first
draft of a
book in 30 days.
I'm about halfway
through a first
draft of a
book centering around a car crash, a mysterious woman who dies in it, but I'm superstitious and can't talk about a
book until it's finished.
Isn't this exactly the kind
of advice that's causing indie authors to rush to market with the first
draft of their
book, before it's gone
through several rounds
of rewrites and had some professional editing?
In practice you'll probably do many substantive edits, going
through a number
of partial and complete
drafts of your
book, and then just do a single copy edit at the end, once the manuscript is finished in every other respect.
Once I finish working on new posts, I turn to my next project — the rough
draft of my next
book is in its beta revision stage and won't be out for several more months, but I started promoting that
book in 2010
through the platform Blog I launched just for that
book.
Jenna, our in - house writing expert and
book coach, will not only assess the first
draft of your manuscript, but guide you
through the entire revision process.
Notes have been a big help while going
through MOBI - rendered
drafts of my
book.
So after having a bout
of cold feet on my 1st person alternating POV narrators, 35 % into the second - ish
draft of my novel, I decided to look
through a few
of my all - time favorite
books and see how they were done.
If you're one
of the fortunate few to be agented and traditionally published, your
book will go
through a series
of tortures — er, edits — that may cause you to doubt how well you crafted that first
draft.
Barton and Larsen have shown me the public critiques
of one writer's 58 revisions
of his
book, no less, while assuring me that the average writer goes
through six
drafts.
When the first
draft of your
book cover is complete, we'll e-mail you a proof and work with you
through up to five rounds
of revisions to perfect the cover.
I got a
book deal and powered
through the rest
of the first
draft in something like seven months.
An interesting attempt,
through a number
of interviews with veteran curators Hans Ulrich Obrist
drafts in this
book a deliberately fragmentary history
of curating, full
of amusing stories and anecdotes.
More recently, Professor Ken Adams, Adjunct professor at Notre Dame Law School,
through his blog, Adams on Contract
Drafting, his
book, A Manual
of Style for Contract
Drafting (currently in its 3rd edition), and his many seminars, has been doing what he can to advance the cause
of what he prefers to call
drafting in «standard English» (rather than «plain language»
drafting).
Above and beyond, I acknowledge my dear friend and life mentor Rick Skwiot, an award - winning author who guided me
through the process
of writing a
book, took the first run at my early
drafts, and instilled in me the seriousness
of purpose and the privilege in becoming a published author.