Sentences with phrase «good manuscript»

I don't think it is wise to abandon the study of the scriptures or to neglect the oldest and best manuscripts of them.

Sometimes what seemed like an impossible job, or a horrible idea, ends up making a much better manuscript.

Recently, a young agent on my staff requested a really good manuscript.

It doesn't matter how good your manuscript is if the agent doesn't read any of it, so your first impression is critical.

Good manuscript prep has even bigger benefits during the production phase.

The biggest thing that you really do need to remember is that you should always consider creating a really good manuscript and keep your book on topic.

The converse of this is that those without any contacts in publishing stand an even weaker chance of publication, even with good manuscripts.

I was lucky enough to win «Best Manuscript Submission.»

Free to any registrant: a total of six educational seminars across two days, networking mixer with all guest editors and agents, and the awards ceremony for best manuscript samples submitted and best pitches.

Work directly with experienced, credentialed editors with a passion for helping good manuscripts become great books

They want good manuscripts to shop to publishers.

The revisions were good enough to earn a «Best Manuscript Submission» award, and I also got wonderful feedback at that conference about how to tighten and strengthen the manuscript.

«I will say your comments moved me forward into a much better manuscript.

Even we can debate according to Scriptures and cross reference with the best manuscript available, the Word of God and Rhema Word of God is still being experienced and intepreted differently and uniquely by all of us though it could similar but not the same.

In Mark it reads, «Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod» (some good manuscripts read «the Herodians»; cf. Mk 3:6; Mt 22:16).

Most of the best manuscripts read, literally, «Take care not to practise your righteousness before men»; but instead of «righteousness» some excellent manuscripts have «charity» (KJV «alms»), while the famous Codex Sinaiticus and a few of the ancient versions have «giving.»

I have bracketed the word «broken» because some of the best manuscripts omit it, but it is implied in the action of breaking the bread which accompanied the words.)

is not found in the best manuscripts of Matthew and Luke, and is either an independent later piece of oral tradition, or a liturgical conclusion which the church added when the prayer came to be used in worship.

By comparing the Revised Standard Version and the King James here, you will notice that the statement that Jesus «was... carried up into heaven» (verse 51, KJV) is not found in the best manuscripts, and is therefore not included in the translation.

Verses 37 - 41 center around the idea of Jesus» name; 42, 43, 45, 47, and 48 (verses 44 and 46 are left out in the best manuscripts) refer to offenses or causing to sin; 48 - 50 center around the idea of salt.

As he demonstrates, there are only two lengthy passages in the entire New Testament (the extended ending to Mark's Gospel; the woman caught in adultery in John 8) that are sharply contested, and that do not appear in the oldest and best manuscripts.

Instead of «peace, good will toward men,» the best manuscripts read literally «peace among men of good will» (or «favor»).

I met agent Ann Collette at my second conference where she awarded me «Best Manuscript Submission.»

Spell check... grammar check... thesaurus... all great tools to help you write a better manuscript.

From basic correction of typos, punctuation, and grammar, to more advanced activities such as re-writing or ghost writing sections of your manuscript, a great editor will help you envision and deliver a better manuscript.

After you've written the best manuscript you think you can, show it to some people, preferably members of your target audience and some published authors, and incorporate their ideas.

The better your manuscript is from a structural and grammatical standpoint, the less you have to pay.

The best manuscript in the world will fail as a book if punctuation is neglected.

After all, my aim is to get you published and the better your manuscript, the better your odds.

A good manuscript isn't going to be enough for publishers, especially as the tech wave gathers strength.

What if you have a good manuscript but no marketing dollars?

The Editorial Department's query and submissions packet evaluation provides expert critical analysis of the three components of a typical submission (query, synopsis, and first 50 manuscript pages), all based on the insights and knowledge gleaned from 35 years of success in placing our clients» best manuscripts with literary agents.

Line editing tends to be misunderstood and underappreciated, but a careful line edit can be the difference between a good manuscript and a great manuscript, because its focus is on bringing out the best in the author's voice and making the writing shine.

And the better your manuscript, the better this new system works.

It just means that I need to rework my letter to reflect the best manuscript possible.

If you are serious about getting your book published, then utilizing a good manuscript editing service is a necessity.

They'll turn aside a good manuscript if they're in a bad mood the day they read it, or any other number of reasons.

Bad stuff happens to good people, and good manuscripts.

Write a good manuscript and someone will notice.

With smart research and a good manuscript, it's quite possible to get a traditional publisher without an agent.