Sentences with phrase «think editing their work»

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For insight into what he thinks about working with such bigwigs, here is an edited transcript of our conversation.

The race between automation and human work is won by automation, and as long as we need fiat currency to pay the rent / mortgage, humans will fall out of the system in droves as this shift takes place... The safe zones are services that require local human effort (gardening, painting, babysitting), distant human effort (editing, coaching, coordinating), and high - level thinking / relationship building.

If there was a question about it, you'd think that at least one of the scores of scholars and theologians that worked on the project for 20 years would have pointed out the inaccuracy before it was edited and printed — especially considering that not all the participants are Catholic.

Without the invitation, this essay would not have been written, and it has contributed a great deal to helping me clarify my thoughts about the correspondence — which has in turn improved my editing work.

In Brightman's case one may see the same mode of thought at work in his account of unconscious purposes in Person and Reality, edited by P. Bertocci, J.E. Newhall and R. S. Brightman (New York: Ronald Press, 1958).

Although my thinking is inspired by the seminal work Practical Theology: The Emerging Field in Theology, Church, and World, edited by Don Browning (Harper & Row, 1983), my thoughts essentially are an attempt to make sense of what I do, and thereby add one more opinion to the important effort to reform and renew theological education.

@indigochild I'm open to suggestions or edits to get my thoughts into more working order.

@ Soylent - I think a minor edit of one or two words works better than vote to close.

While editing a new edition of a social - psychology textbook, however, Hewstone turned up no references to Stapel's work in 15 chapters, suggesting that Stapel's work was not as influential as he had thought.

The first results of gene editing in viable human embryos reveals it works better than we thought, but that there's another big problem blocking the way

I've been working out with your beginner program for a while now, and I think it's about time I edited it to suit my goals more... I'm just having a bit of trouble figuring out which changes I should make.

I know nothing about video editing or youtube and how these things work, but just thought I'd share the idea.

But frankly, I started my blog as an escape from work since it was creative endeavor that I could completely control as I would not be subject to others edits and thoughts.

While I was working on editing photos I started thinking that maybe a lighter couch would be better in the space to match all the other neutral pieces of furniture we have.

I think my ideal everyday / working wardrobe is somewhere in the range of 120 - 150 items, which should be achievable with minimal additional culling and regular editing.

If a friend asks for your help editing a paper, for example, I've said things like, «Sure, I think I could really help you improve this based on my experience editing articles at work.»

So a few weeks ago, I began recruiting a team — in my opinion, some of the best dating writers I've read recently — all of whom write in a tone I thought might work well on the blog I was editing.

I truly can not think of a movie that I've seen that was so blatantly torn to shreds in post-production in the editing room, to a point where it feels like no single scene belongs in the same movie as any other one, and that no one working on the film even realized they were working on the same one as all of these other people involved.

It just seems like the Sony marketing department doesn't have enough faith to do a JJ Abrams - like slow build, and instead decided to bombard moviegoers with as many cool looking shots from the film edited into a neat little package (something I think works closer toward release).

Despite the fact that twenty - six years have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and thirteen years have passed since the first group of formerly communist countries joined the European Union, an East / West divide is still often used to define European cinema in scholarly works (one could think of a number of edited volumes, such as European Cinema after 1989 [2007], A Companion of Eastern European Cinemas [2012], Cinemas in Transition in Central and Eastern Europe After 1989 [2013], among others).

I think that, even with the extra padding, it works, but a good 124 - minute thriller could have been a fantastic 105 - minute one with some shrewder editing.

I run my own film review website, Thoughts On Film, where I also delegate and edit work by other writers.

I did a film called Margaret after that, which actually hasn't been released yet; it's still being worked through, I think in the editing room, and then United 93 was my third job.

I think it could be a good starting point to anyone who teaches this movie for the first time and can be easily edited to your own resources if you do not wish to work with the booklet.

So while I'd rather be working on the final edits / production of the sequel (and I'm itching to make a start on the third book in the sequence), I'm also in parallel making plans for every self - promotional event I can think of.

And I think what can happen if you're just starting out with fiction is you think you have to write some massive, massive book, and that takes a lot of work, a lot of editing.

I think that the promoter might not know the difference in performance btw RAM512 and RAM 1 GB.0 I think that the promoter might have never experienced the work in editing PDF with 13.3 reader or e ink readers, OR, in underlying or highlighting a text in PDF file with 13.3 e ink reader.

Wow, you really are out of touch with the publishing industry if you think that indie authors aren't investing as much (if not more) money in getting their work edited, covers designed etc that the larger publishers put into their titles.

The book my co-writer and I are working on right now, due to be published later this year, is going to be a self - edited affair we think — two of the four writers are publishers in their own right, you know Mark Williams and Saffi I presume?

Besides professional editing, cover design, distribution and sales effort, I think marketing might be the most important missing element in so many digital authors» works.

Jason Thompson is a man of many credits: he edited megahits like Dragon Ball Z at Viz Media, wrote the exhaustive Manga: The Complete Guide back in 2007, works on his own original comic King of RPGs, writes about manga for Otaku USA every month and, most importantly, you can read his weekly thoughts on more than a hundred different manga right here on ANN.

The writer has full autonomy of their work; able to make the covers, formatting, and editing quality the way they think it should be done.

Complete novice in this area, but worked out I could pull iPhone 4 video onto the iPad 2 using the camera connection kit (I thought it was going to have to be by PC too, so I didn't bother) so had a play with iMovie on it and it seemed really impressive, but that is my first look at editing so no idea how limited it might be yet...

In the twenty - plus years we worked together I found him responsive, funny, brilliant, and totally committed to his writing and hence, to being edited as long as he thought the editing was serious.

I specialize in editing fiction, and I think it works well because fiction depicts how people talk today.

But think about it... why would ABC Bad Literary Agents accept your work for representation (and go through all the hard work of trying to sell it), when XYZ Editing Company sends them a check (kickback) every month (for a percentage of the money that writers — like you — pay XYZ Editing Company)?

There are a few possibilities as to why you feel this way: you know you didn't do the work to carefully craft and revise it, you didn't hire an editor to edit it, you got negative reviews, or you got no reviews at all and have no idea what people think.

My basic service includes proofreading and copy - editing of work that you've polished, but I also offer substantive editing if you think your book may need surgery beyond the cosmetic.

Writer's Resource works with authors, public speakers, thought leaders and small presses to ghostwrite, rewrite and edit fiction and nonfiction; pitch to agents and publishers; develop business proposals and art grants; and branding.

I mentioned above that I worked on my novel for ten years but, despite all my editing, I never really thought of it as «done».

I really like your story because I think it's one that many of our editors on Reedsy can relate to: you previously worked in - house for Simon and Schuster and are now freelance and focusing on developmental editing (or editorial assessments).

While she was editing material for Selected Letters of William Styron, Rose Styron, widow of the acclaimed author, had a revelation about her husband: «I realized that half the endless hours I thought he was working on novels... he was actually writing letters.»

As an editor, I obviously think that editing is important, whether you plan to self - publish or work with a traditional publisher.

When I see line editing done right, they tweak the little picture for the big picture affect they think will work best (moving sentences around for better flow, tightening paragraphs, etc.).

I shoved it in a box for a month so I wouldn't think about it, then pulled it out and began the work of editing before querying it to agents.»

I read a back and forth on some book review site a while back between a reviewer and an author where the author thought she should get cut some slack because she had kids and a job and apparently didn't have the time to devote to honing her craft and seriously editing her work.

Okay, There are stories of people going to the or a publisher and then getting the work edited, but raise your hands people how many of you think this will happen to you?

To build on what JSB said, I think in the modern online world of selling, copy or a good cover blurb, cover art and sampling are all critical to getting new readers interested, and quality storytelling and professionally edited work will get them to return.

This is perhaps one of the most exciting parts of promoting your book, and it's actually quite fun to think about it when you're doing the hard work of editing and revisions and proofreading.

The reason traditionally published authors & the traditional publishing side has such disdain for self - publishing is not because anyone & everyone CAN do it, but because MOST of the ones who DO IT have self - published either unpublishable garbage OR have taken a manuscript with great potential & published it without decent editing & revision (both of which seriously hinder the enjoyment of the reading audience - not an issue if you're a hobby writer who just wants to entertain family & friends, but a serious issue for anyone who thinks that that sort of thing can hold its own against carefully revised & edited work).