His daughter, Margaret Salinger, wrote in her 2000 memoir, "Dream Catcher," that her father had shown her his "vault" in his home, where he wrote in privacy and marked manuscripts with colored dots indicating what was to be edited, published or discarded after his death.
Melville's sentences, a little arthritic and desiccated decades after the headlong prose of his prime, and marked, the manuscript (at Harvard) reveals, by many hesitations and revisions, may sometimes grope, but his plot, the Christlike martyrdom of his "fated boy," moves unflinchingly.
You can easily imagine the publisher of one of Karl's books forlornly marking the manuscript with his wishes that the author might be funny more often and let the seriousness be taken for granted.
You'd be surprised how few blue pencil marks most manuscripts have.
"Instead of paying an editor," Raffel says, "I had editors paying me". Of the 57 backers with editing rights, 25 "took advantage," as Raffel puts it, turning in manuscripts marked with two to 3,500 notes.
My eyes smarted; the pages of the manuscript were marked with blotches.
At some point, someone went through the manuscript and marked the pages which Paramount had asked to be removed with the letters "STET", which is a Latin term used by proofreaders to tell the printer to disregard earlier changes.
They started by marking up the manuscript with their own ideas.
The image, an intrinsic component of the Book of Hours, is one of the reasons that led to their popularity: its function was not only illustrative, but rather practical it marked the sections of the manuscript and articulated their different parts to form the visual identities for the offices which opened out, acting also as a stimulus to meditation [2, 5].
When she had finished it Percy read the manuscript through and marked it up with his suggested edits.
What's more, every book was treated as if it were a fresh, unseen manuscript and then marked not just with a binary classification of "likely to chart" or "likely not to," but also with a score indicating its likelihood of being a bestseller.
