Sentences with phrase «editing a manuscript several»

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Story consults have always been part of the overall editing package, but after several author requests for consults while they were in the middle of their manuscript, I decided to offer it as a separate service.

My manuscript had been edited several times, including twice by my agent, but I still hired a freelance editor.

Editing companies can have five or more editors on staff, several of whom will be working on your manuscript.

A line editor may have to read a manuscript several times and go through a number of different passes to ensure that it has been edited to a high standard.

When I was in high school and college I was doing copy - editing for several magazines or newspapers but when I started working in publishing, the publisher just gave me a manuscript and told me to «edit it», and for me that inherently involved both the copy and the content.

For the next several months, the goal for plot a publishing plan is to move from a edited manuscript to a published novel or memoir.

Recently we've had several projects where the authors used terms like proofing, copyediting and «light edit» to describe that final manuscript review necessary before a book moves into the design and layout phase.

Like any creative and significant endeavor, a book manuscript can take several weeks, months, or even years to reach the point of being ready for editing and formatting.

For a manuscript that's ready for developmental editing, I read it through several times to study the plot, concept, character development, pacing, and literary style.

Long - term, one - on - one work with an experienced writer and editor to plan book concept and focus, with the right measure of market strategy; writing and editing of several drafts with a final manuscript prepared for publication.

• Edit your manuscript in several stages.

Several other editing services will outsource your document to a stable of part - time medical editors for a meager wage, asking them to find time in their busy schedules to attend to your manuscript when they have a moment.

The manuscript will be edited several times through by several different editors before the galley proofs will be printed.

If your manuscript has been through several rounds of editing — especially after using many beta readers — your final editing costs probably wouldn't even be that much because you've done the clean up work ahead of time.

It's the quickest and cheapest form of editing, mostly because by the time you send your manuscript to a proofreader, it should have already been edited several times over.

As indie self - published writers, we get a bad rap about this issue, but every single indie author that I know goes to great length and expense to have their manuscripts not only edited but proofread (and usually several proofreading passes) and yet a reader will find errors / typos in our published books.