Right now most of the time has been
spent editing our manuscript.
While most of her time is
spent editing manuscripts,...
Not exact matches
Indie authors should have their
manuscripts edited professionally (yes,
spend the money!)
I think that if more authors invested in a
manuscript evaluation, they'd have to
spend less on a full on
edit.
She also interned at Macmillan Learning and has
spent the first few months after graduation back in her home state of Washington,
spending her time freelancing, ghostwriting,
editing manuscripts, and running an after - school art program for her dad's fifth grade class.
This relatively affordable step can help you get your
manuscript in much better shape before you have the whole book
edited, so the editor may be able to
spend less time on it, and therefore charge less, or at least concentrate on other issues that might otherwise have been buried under grammatical errors.
Spend the money on a developmental
edit to ensure your
manuscript is sound of structure.
The consensus seems to be: Don't
spend money on
editing your
manuscript before shopping it to agents and editors.
Just like everything else, it's a learning process, and I consider the funds
spent on
editing both
manuscripts well worth the investment.
Delete: If you don't follow submission guidelines; if you attach information instead of pasting it into the email; if the query letter is long, rambling, incoherent; if you're querying a genre I don't represent; if you
spend paragraphs tooting your own horn and then the writing is atrocious; an incomplete
manuscript; work that isn't fully
edited and polished.
When you're writing or
editing and
spending hours on a single sentence, it's hard to see your
manuscript as anything other than a problem child.
And the simple answer is that I
spent more of my creative time and energy on
editing my
manuscript rather than create new words.
If they
spent have that time
editing their
manuscript, they would be in better shape.
I was embarrassed by the findings, and I
spent another three days self -
editing before sending the
manuscript off.
I can only assume that the editors at such services
spend the same amount of time on each writer's book, regardless of whether the
manuscript needs proofreading or a heavy developmental
edit.
Because the time
spent on
manuscripts varies widely between authors with different levels of experience, we will look at submitted projects for line
editing and proofing and
edit ten random pages before finalizing our agreement.
I
edit and critique more than 200
manuscripts a year, and I'm stunned by the amount writers are saying they
spend on
editing in this article.
Before you
spend thousands of dollars on developmental
editing, try a more budget - friendly option: a
manuscript review.
Most people don't
spend the time they need to
spend on
editing their
manuscript and formatting it to make sure it's top quality.
If you're an artist and you want to share your work,
spend what it takes to get your
manuscript professionally
edited, typeset and cover - designed (there's nothing more tragic than shoddy art).
This comprehensive
editing suite gives you the tools to take a publication from raw
manuscript to finished files ready for typesetting, in a fraction of the time you'd
spend doing all of that work by hand.
Our authors still
spend their own coin, and, if they don't shop it out, they slave over
editing, cover design,
manuscript formatting and ebook creation.
After you've
spent countless hours writing,
editing, and agonizing over it, your book
manuscript is sure to seem priceless to you.