Sentences with phrase «good line editors»

Because line editing is all about our writing, we can also struggle to find good line editors because — more than any other phase of editing — line editors must be a good match for our voice.

Those gray lines can make it hard to find good line editors or point out what makes line editing unique.

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.

A good line editor is skilled at understanding what makes a particular author unique.

A good line editor can mean the difference between being an amateur writer with a mediocre book that wasn't fully realised and a professional author with a best - selling book the gets the recognition it deserves.

Unfortunately, it's rare for a beta reader or critique partner — or even an English teacher — to have the necessary skills to be a good line editor.

Additionally, in reference to your «comment» where you stress the importance of a good copy and a good line editor — due to TKZ I am lucky enough to be working with an editor who excels at BOTH.

Have you had a good line editor before?

Does this help clarify what a good line editor should analyze or how to evaluate a line editor's skills?

But again, a good line editor often books up several weeks to months in advance — so you may want to book early.

Not exact matches

While the latter have no «business as usual» stamp, since the war colored almost everything those years, one senses that the editors were saying: life must go on; faith needs nurture; the subtleties of life matter; there are trenches in America as well as on the front lines.

Bottom Line: The overall best memory foam mattress and our Editor's Choice winner.

Discussing lactivism, the editor wrote, «But there is a line, at least in my mind, between supporting the nursing mother and insisting that you know the best thing for her family.

To get a better feel for the specific effects of parenting that is not in line with research, this API Editor's Pick highlights the Psych Central post, «Unloved in Childhood: 10 Common Effects on Your Adult Self» by Peg Streep, a parenting book author from New York City, USA.

Hunter's show signaled to the fashion industry that it's serious about its new ready - to - wear line, and many well - known buyers and editors responded by showing up.

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.

Steven Spielberg's film is an ode to an era when newspapers — with their crotchety reporters and editors, connected and well - heeled owners, democratic values, and broadsheet features — were a literal part of the social fabric, lining parlor couches and billowing through windy city streets.

A few months later, when I was politely asked to cover «Scary Movie 4,» I accepted... but my annoyance was palpable when the time came to write my review, which resulted with the closing lines, «Well, Mr. Editor, go ahead and pencil in that someone's going to have to review «Scary Movie 5» for sometime in 2008.

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.

This track again involves Fincher as well as writer Andrew Kevin Walker, editor Richard Francis - Bruce, New Line President of Production Michael De Luca, and film professor / author Richard Dyer, who also acts as host.

Robert Peston, the BBC business editor, has been named best TV performer in a non-acting role, while Evan Davis will take home the radio presenter of the year prize for his work on Today and The Bottom Line on Radio 4.

«Tu Dors Nicole» One of the secret gems of the Cannes Film Festival, where it proved a highlight even among the very strong Directors» Fortnight line - up, was French - Canadian comedy «Tu Dors Nicole,» from writer - director Stephane LaFleur (best - known as the editor of the Oscar - nominated «Monsieur Lazhar «-RRB-.

Bottom Line: CNN.com is a good choice for use in the classroom because all of its content comes from paid reporters working with top - notch editors.

The Times editors fault DeVos for supposedly supporting «legislative changes that have reduced oversight and accountability» for charter schools — a charge that treads a thin line between exaggeration and falsehood — and laments that DeVos wants to expand school choice in Detroit, where supposedly «charter schools often perform no better than traditional schools, and sometimes worse» [links in the original].

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.

Photo competition winners — Some of the best of the old photographs entered for the Sunday Telegraph / National Motor Museum competition / 1992 Daffodil Run — Tom Threlfall's report on the Bean Car Club's annual run to Bournemouth / 1914 Shelsley Crossley — The Editor examines a superb example of this fine Edwardian sporting car / A short history of coach lining — How this form of vehicle decoration has developed since the earliest days of motoring.

In a fit of annoyance almost as year ago, we declared the Toyota Highlander the best mainstream midsize SUV, but withheld the Editors» Choice designation because Toyota pushed most useful tech options into the two most pricy trim lines.

EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: This Mercedes - Benz CLS63 AMG is still one of the best - looking cars built today, with terrific lines, even if the nose has more of a gaping mouth than the previous - gen car.

SENIOR EDITOR FOR NEWS BOB GRITZINGER: This is a close to perfect in a small crossover as you can get — clean lines, well - equipped, functional and comfortable interior, and just the right power - to - mpg ratio.

Even editors at the time were surprised how well that one simple line worked to turn away the uninformed.

The bottom line — and I speak as both a seasoned indie author and anthologist (the Panverse series) as well as a freelance editor — is that the tired writing dogma and «rules» that get endlessly recycled in writers» groups, on popular blogs, and elsewhere pale in the face of story.

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.

My small publisher prefers work that has already been through at least a line editor, but they have their own staff editor as well.

Ideally, you'll collaborate with an editor on a level of editing that includes content editing as well as line and copyediting.

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....

These are the sort of details that a good editor would pick up - and if there is any justice in this world it won't be long until this self published author has a line of editors and publishers queuing up to publish his books.

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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.

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.

So this list can help us evaluate line editors we might work with as well as develop our own skills.

Like her suggestions, if someone could afford only one editor, I'd also recommend focusing on the writing level because finding a good match for our voice is essential for line editing.

Line editing includes follow - up time with your editor, as well, because questions are part of the process.

They're going to get the best cover artists for these particular genres, editors who know the genre inside and out, focus on a few lines, and cultivate an audience that loves the work that they do.

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.

Many line editors and copyeditors overlap their skills as well.

Some line editors will overlap with the other stages as well, providing developmental feedback as well as some copyediting suggestions.

Many authors decide to use both a line - editor and a proofreader for best results: four eyes see more than two.