Sentences with phrase «manuscript in a drawer»

Calvin decides Ruby is perfect just as she is and locks the manuscript in a drawer.

The author with the manuscript in the drawer could end up competing with their new traditionally published book.

«This is the best time to be an author because if you have a manuscript, you do not need to die with that manuscript in your drawer.

If I had one thing I could change about the process, I would have stuck the manuscript in a drawer for a month or two, then read it again looking for missed errors.

I hope it motivates those with manuscripts in their drawer to get published.

As a writer said to me recently, «Only a decade ago, I'd have no choice but to leave my manuscript in the drawer.»

Too many writers do the digital equivalent of leaving their manuscripts in a drawer, collecting dust.

If publishing houses rejected a book, its author had two choices: self - publish and bear the stigma, or put the manuscript in a drawer, forfeiting years of hard work, all the while hoping the next book would be «the one.»

Not exact matches

Keep in mind that three sources of pent - up works hit the market all at once: long - queried manuscripts, manuscripts sitting in drawers, and rights that reverted to authors back when this was more likely to happen.

It is daunting to spend months and sometimes years toiling over a book manuscript to end up with it on your computer or in a drawer in your desk.

I don't know if that will happen if you publish, but I know if you don't get that manuscript out of your drawer and get it in the market, it will never happen.

Fast forward several years...e - books exploded in popularity, and my manuscript was still sitting in a drawer.

It's often referred to as putting a manuscript «in the drawer.»

So there is no need to keep that manuscript in your desk drawer any longer.

I'd gotten little response to my queries and had to decide whether to hide a manuscript I'd spent years on in a drawer or use my professional writing and design skills to put it out in front of potential readers.

13 min read If you're a writer anything like myself, you've got a handful of manuscripts finished, languishing in desk drawers, or in your Dropbox gathering virtual dust.

One thing is true: Aspiring authors have never had more or better options for self - publishing the manuscripts currently gathering dust in their desk drawers or sleeping in seldom - visited corners of their hard drives.

Maybe only a few bucks here and there, but a ton better than the manuscript sitting in drawer.

The way I look at it, it's more than I would earn if the manuscripts were sitting in a drawer!

But if they don't open, a manuscript you believe in doesn't have to relegated to a drawer.

It is better to be pirated and out there in the public getting some eyeballs than it is to have your unpirated, unseen manuscript sitting in a drawer where no one can find it or you.

Sometimes you might even give in and put your manuscript away in a drawer for weeks, months, or years at a time.

How many manuscripts do you have sitting in the proverbial drawer?

I know authors who have a lifetime of manuscripts tucked away in a drawer and hundreds of rejection slips.