original manuscript and different versions through Google you know and uh would flip through and see you know what some of the different versions of the manuscript look like but uh but the coolest thing was all right so it's 18 13 and you know you're putting musketsnow in the hands of these girls and you're putting all sorts of swords and all sorts of kung fu fighting styles and
to publish criticism and short stories in a variety of newspapers and literary journals when Irina sent me the manuscript for her first novel couple of years ago I have to admit that at first I was a little disappointed I had alwaysassumed that you'd return to those crazy Russian teenagers at the achieva and it actually took me a few minutes of
he never got to work on it. Uh even though he did work on logic and sort of you know and and and there are manuscript of his postumously discovered that that that do work out a lot ofthings that George Bull the other man uh discovered
You know, you can put a book to bed at night, and it stays asleep. A manuscript doesn't play you off each other. If you screw up, the stakes are lower, you know.
demons and other figures in them. That manuscript is at Harvard.
very kindly the library at my old college let me in and let me see the manuscript . It's beautiful. What you can see here is exactly what it looks like, this kind of faded palm leaf manuscript , a little shred. But you can see, not so much on this one but on the shred that I saw you can see numbers in columns and little groupings everywhere and different signs, which just goes to show that before the West had even encountered these quite sophisticated mathematical ideas and scientific ideas, countries like India and China already
because you know there are things that I would find myself Googling all throughout the day seriously like okay not only first of all I looked up the original manuscript and different versions through Google you know and uh would flip through and see you know what some of the different versions of the manuscript look like but uh but the coolest thing was all right so it's 18 13 and you know you're putting muskets
dinner and even little kids get a small glass of wine. The manuscript was due in one week. So September 29th of last year 2008, I interviewed him -- got that last interview in. My editor said, "Let's beef up the beer chapter
And I was struck by that, because I was puzzled by who it is, at the Times op-ed pages, that is sitting there reviewing manuscripts and saying, yes indeed, this is what the American people need to hear today. Let's opt for yet another war before the last one has wound down.
But actually, I thought, well, Ben, that's why you're here. Rather like the manuscript that Wendy leaves in the back of the car.
And we'll see what happens. But he handed the manuscript to his granddaughter who could not put it down.
And I think it's actually going to work. Once we have a manuscript done, it's maybe three, four hours to format it into the proper files.
Another recent one is by Hugh Howey, this book "WOOL." "Cinder" is another one, and then this is probably the most famous National Novel Writing Month manuscript , is "Water for Elephants," which was made into a big Hollywood movie with Reese Witherspoon a couple years ago. And so we've had I think, what?
and she would give me her little revisions and be like, pull out this story, and more description here, and really guide me through it. And so the entire manuscript was actually written in three months, which is really fast. That's incredibly fast. Yeah.
So we would do things like I'd bring a rubber ball to school. And it was 940 manuscript pages.
So we would do things like I'd bring a rubber ball to school. And the manuscript lands for me.
demons and other figures in them. This is a manuscript from the 18th century.
demons and other figures in them. He saw the genuine manuscript at Harvard and he made forgeries based on the manuscript at Harvard.
A dummy, a dummy. So the manuscript , loose. But color photographs, assembled the way it's going to look.
And that manuscript sits today in Dodge City, where I spent many happy days working on it.
And she read the manuscript , and she was like, I really like this.
There was the initial manuscript , and then the marked-up manuscript , and then the typed script, and so on.
We cut the manuscript in half.
I turned in the manuscript in January, and I think it was available in March.
had a full manuscript about six months after that.
I have a manuscript .
My agent sent the manuscript out to these publishers last April, and by October we still hadn't heard back from three of them.
I wrote that first manuscript and it won the award and that was great.
I’ll have the manuscript .
before you present the manuscript to the editor?
and after the initial manuscript ?
East I had a manuscript to I was paying money to people up and down the borderers as I was running these people
the hundreds of handwritten manuscript pages are stacked in a neat our ready to
the ancient illuminated manuscripts .
demons and other figures in them. produced both illustrated manuscripts and big paintings on cloth.
And I think that that has a profound effect on you or consciousness, whether you realize it or not, when you run around the apartment where you live and there's nothing but books and manuscripts . And my mother's process for editing a cookbook was to take the manuscript and cook every single recipe in it.
letters papers manuscripts left by Henry
philologists to date manuscripts and place them at a kind of family tree.' 'So you're hoping that this missing "e" may be our key DNA marker? Was Syracuse every
If I build the house-- the whole manuscript is 100% mine, but I build the house and he decorates the inside.
And you write in cursive this fantastic manuscript , right?
And then you send that manuscript to your editor in New York who drops everything as soon as it comes in, shuts off the computer,
see us slaving away at our manuscript about the pure transcendence of nature while munching on somebody else's doughnut.
And then one scribbling on one manuscript just goes, "Oh my hand." And that was just dumb, because actually writing out
if you could read his manuscript .
demons and other figures in them. Or this is the one from the manuscript , the one above and the one below.
demons and other figures in them. the prancing deer from the manuscript illustration that's immediately below it.
demons and other figures in them. They both relate back to that manuscript that I was showing you.
She forced them to burn the manuscript , and she put a curse on anyone who would tell her story.
The last poem is from a manuscript that is forthcoming from Four Way Books, where Victoria, our next reader, works.
So we already had a backlog of manuscript ideas.