Sentences with phrase «over the manuscript just»

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

In fact, until the existence of self - publishing, it was one of the hardest things to do on earth (just ask any author who's queried over 100 agents to represent their manuscript and come away empty - handed).

Over the past few days I've been re-reading the manuscript — just reading it, not actually editing it — and thinking about the notes I took... Continue reading →

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.

I sent 25 pages of my just - finished manuscript to a contest last week, but not before I'd gone over it carefully.

Just as it's a fact of life that we'll get rejected a lot over the years, whether it's for a job or for a manuscript that we're trying to get published, it's also a fact of life that it's not easy to deal with.

But, truth is, most writers still just want to be left alone to write, hand over the manuscript and let someone else do the work of bringing their book to market.

-- is that the vast majority of authors still want Big Five contracts and most agents are doing just fine in come - hithering the majors and ferrying over those manuscripts, thanks very much, jingle, jingle, see you later, baby.

After I had just over half of my first draft written, I started looking for references on how the manuscript would need to be formatted for the eventual Kindle upload.

Aspiring authors spend months or even years working on their manuscripts and don't want to hand over their «baby» to just anyone.

Just one look at any 15th or 16th century manuscript will reveal the fallacy of your argument: no punctuation, fonts styles and sizes all over the place, variations in spelling from instance of a word to the next, line run together, spread out, cut off... you name it.

All over the world there are drawers crammed with manuscripts — just started, halfway through, nearly done.

Personally, I find it difficult to see some of my own spelling mistakes, or even plot issues in a manuscript which I've written and rewritten over and over, but this is just me.