Go over your manuscript again.
So I don't need people to
go over this manuscript in huge detail, that's what I'm paying Deb for!
The more times your editor
goes over your manuscript, the more errors that will be caught.
At that time, I hope to share the work with some more beta readers, then get some freelance editors to
go over the manuscript.
No matter how many times
you go over your manuscript, you WILL NOT SEE the errors.
First off, if you're already reading this blog you know the importance of hiring an editor to
go over your manuscript.
I'll
go over your manuscript and look for technical errors.
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.
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.
Not exact matches
To properly understand Ephesians 3:7 - 13, I highly recommend you
go back and read the sermon
manuscript on Ephesians 3:1 - 6, especially my opening comments about how my thinking has changed
over the years about this important passage.
I still have
over a month of writing to
go before I turn in the
manuscript, then a few rounds of edits, so chances are I'll be a little quieter than usual on the blog — case in point, I totally forgot to post a recipe last week.
Twenty years or so ago this process was managed mostly on paper, but
over time it
went electronic and — thanks largely to email and online
manuscript submission systems — became quicker and more interactive.
He says that the
manuscript went through two rounds of review
over eight months — twice as long as is normal for the journal — and that he urged the researchers to discuss the ethical issues surrounding germline editing in the paper.
Over the next 3 weeks, I focused and wrote, and by July 24th had my first draft of my
manuscript, and
went on to publication through Balboa Press by February of the following year.
But a proofread is still needed, and if you can't afford a professional, please find several people with a very fine eye for detail to
go over every word of your typeset or formatted
manuscript.
In fact, if you have old
manuscripts or published works that could use another
going over, offer them all up to the class of editors.
You should pay that person to
go over the book at least twice to catch all of the errors in your
manuscript.
Hell's bells, if we have to make sure we send an edited
manuscript to our agents and editors before they «edit» it — and yes, there are a number of authors who pay freelance editors to
go over their work before submitting it because they know there will be no real editing done by their editors at certain legacy publishers — and we have to do our own marketing and promotion and do it on our own dime, why are we giving legacy publishers the majority of money earned by our hard work?
I've worked with enough struggling writers, however, to know that some of you reading this right now believe that if you redraft your
manuscript just one more time, or get just one more beta reader to
go over your story and provide feedback, your book will finally be perfect.
On more than one occasion, literary agents have requested the complete
manuscript within the hour... saying they're
going to take it home with them to read
over the weekend.
Upon reviewing your edited
manuscript, if you believe that an unsatisfactory number of errors remain, please create a list of the errors and the page numbers on which they appear and email it to
[email protected], and a member of our staff will
go over the list with you.
I sent 25 pages of my just - finished
manuscript to a contest last week, but not before I'd
gone over it carefully.
Editing — to
go over the near - final
manuscript before I made the very final changes.
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.
Having other writers
go over your story can pick up lots of trouble spots and help you improve your
manuscript.
If you can not afford an editor, be sure to carefully read a book about self - editing, print your
manuscript out and
go over it with a fine tooth comb.
And, don't be alarmed, but that
manuscript you meticulously slaved
over, and even paid an editor to
go over, will end up with revisions.
This type of consumerism is not possible under the legacy publishing model where books can take
over a year to
go from an author's finished
manuscript to a bookstore.
'' «We are
going to win a Nobel Prize,» I breathed.As they stay up all night to read the 9th - century Codex, it spills answers to all the burning questions of the thinking Camino pilgrim, including: Is there any chance at all that a Middle Eastern Jew's bones are in a crypt in Santiago de Compostela, Spain?Why, in the cathedrals along the Camino, are there so many portraits of St. James riding his horse
over people?Did the legend of James in Spain — and the nation of Spain, sort of — really begin with a scribal error in an old
manuscript — the modern equivalent of a typo?We're spirited to early 800s northwestern Spain, where King Alfonso II is in a pickle.
Have you
gone over all the necessary steps to ensure your
manuscript is actually ready to be submitted to a publisher or agent?
Another thing that makes self publishing more of the way to
go is that you, as the author, own total rights
over your
manuscript.
Before you pass your
manuscript off, be sure you've
gone over it meticulously.
And if you do
go for a contract with a publisher, they will take
over the design and production of your book, so don't worry about the format of your
manuscript.
Make sure you've
gone over all the tips and tricks to have your
manuscript in «good» showing form.
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Over the weekend, I spent more time
going through William's memo and the comments on my
manuscript, and I'm incredibly impressed with the work he did.
Gone are the days when you turned your
manuscript over to a publisher who then nurtured the project to fruition, tending to everything from design to marketing.
Next, he
went over the drawing with size (weak glue used in the Middle Ages to stiffen the pages of illuminated
manuscripts) and painted the final layer with tiny brushes dipped in gold leaf.
We
go over every single page and look at pacing and all kind, grammar and all kinds of things, and then after that they have a copy editor come through and he or she will put five or six, seven, eight stickies on every page of an 800 page
manuscript and I have got to address every single one of those questions and concerns.