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What's a manuscript (for publishing a book)?

My friend wrote a book but she asked me what is a manuscript. My thought is that it is like chapters out of your book that you would send into the publishing company. if you know please tell me what it is and what it consist of.

Update:

thanks everyone I let her know that.

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  • Kailey
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    A manuscript is an unpublished book, a book is...published. Does that make sense?

  • 5 years ago

    i have continually wanted to quicker or later post some thing. i can't even say why because i'm no longer even constructive why. i began studying at the same time as i become six, and placed it magical. From then on, I knew that's what i wanted to do. I do write for myself. each and every word and personality action is my own, and if i don't like it, i'm eliminating it. for sure finally i prefer to be an awesome author for myself suited, I do exactly prefer to share it with the international. My friends and family contributors are not quite exciting in studying, they could merely study it because that's mine, and by no ability because they chosen it. even if I revealed some thing, i might want to nonetheless be happy with it. because both way I placed my heart and soul into it. i'm aggressive. highly with myself. at the same time as i recognize i can do some thing, I do it. i do not quite view publishing as a contest, yet extra of an awesome challenge. and that i have challenged myself. i think like because the publishing marketplace is so aggressive, that's an awesome honor to be revealed. i choose objectives to artwork in the course of. they commence small. From get the perception, write the first financial ruin, write ten chapters, end the e book, rewrite the e book, edit the e book, rewrite back, and so on. And after all that exertions is finished and the e book is as perfect as i can make it, it would want to be the most suitable next challenge to bypass the subsequent step and attempt publishing. for sure i do not aspire repute and fortune, writing hardly brings both. I merely prefer to share this style of magic that become shared with me when I realized to study and placed what yet another mind's eye might want to tutor me.

  • 1 decade ago

    Manuscripts are your typed/word processed copies of the text of your proposed novel (the whole thing, not just some chapters) before it's actually published.

  • 1 decade ago

    The manuscript is the book. :)

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its just a unpublished book

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