Sentences with phrase «read over your manuscript»

During that alone time, she reads over his manuscript.

At least one (preferably two) qualified individual needs to read over your manuscript from cover to cover in an effort to seek out those nasty typos and misspellings that your word processor didn't catch.

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.

The advantages of a preprint journal club over a journal club reviewing published papers are 1) lab members read the latest material (often posted within the previous week or two), 2) they feel that reviewing a paper is not an empty exercise (because the paper is already published), but something that actually helps people, 3) they learn about improving manuscripts, and 4) authors get more feedback.

My change of heart has come after querying over 300 agents for three different manuscripts over the course of the last 2 - 3 years and barely getting anything more than form rejections... the kind where I can tell the agent didn't fully read my query or get to the sample pages or synopsis.

Feedback from Beta Readers differs from what you get from a critique group because Betas generally read your whole manuscript in a week or two rather than over the span of months or years.

They differ from a critique group because they usually read a whole manuscript in a few sittings rather than hearing it over a period of months or years.

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.

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.

As an author, I know how easy it is to miss plot holes or character inconsistencies or those pesky typos and punctuation errors when you've worked closely with a manuscript for months, reading it over and over so many times you can't even see it anymore.

by Lisa Dale Norton June, 2015 I've read thousands of manuscripts and worked with hundreds of writers over dozens... View Article

First off, if you're already reading this blog you know the importance of hiring an editor to go over your manuscript.

You can only read a manuscript so many times before your brain starts glossing over errors — a professional second set of eyes will prevent mistakes from passing through to the «published» phase.

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.

'' «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.

Over my two decades of teaching the craft and reading manuscripts submitted at conferences, I've seen a rise in the tide of competent fiction.

Join Elif Shafak as she hands over her manuscript and gives a reading.