Sentence examples for a finished manuscript from inspiring English sources

In those moments when I'm bouncing a smiling, babbling Jonah on my lap as I edit a finished manuscript, I feel as if I'm on my way.

Ariel: I mean, we find an evil sorceress and we ask her to accept one of your body parts in exchange for a finished manuscript!

Mr. Oakes said he expected to have a finished manuscript in his hands this week, with a September publication date planned.

A supportive group environment with specified deadlines will keep you on-track and ensure you either have or are well on the way to having a finished manuscript in your hands by the end of the course.

You just need to think of a part of your body that you don't need that much, like one of your arms or an eye — or maybe the sorceress will have her own suggestion — and then you trade it in for a finished manuscript.

And when I finally had a finished manuscript, I gave it to a couple of married male friends, one of whom said, 'This is a cause for deep concern' and the other said, 'This scares the bejesus out of me.'" Well, yes; it is a little confronting, the idea that fidelity has no natural defender.

Micro (2011), which imagines the sinister applications of miniaturization technology, derived from a partially finished manuscript that was expanded by science writer Richard Preston at the behest of Crichton's family.

The revised finished manuscript for A Game of Thrones was 1088 pages long (without the appendices), with the publication following in August 1996.

One night DeWitt asked a customer he knew slightly to look at the finished manuscript.

Today, as publishers eschew the finished manuscript and spit out contracts based on a sketchy outline or even less, the scripting of rejection letters has become something of a lost art.

Going by the date of finished manuscript, Lem's first book would be a partly autobiographical novella Hospital of the Transfiguration (Szpital Przemienienia), finished in 1948.