Completing A Manuscript Gifts

Hope you're still writing that novel!

"This is probably the most mature, astute novel of the last half century that I've just finished. Me want ice cream."

"Bah, I could've written a better dénouement in my sleep."

"Your hunch was right, Officer Garcia. We'll need a good editor to clean up this manuscript and bring his unfinished novel to a satisfying conclusion."

Need Supercomputer to finish my PhD, Please Help.

"For just one monkey in front of one typewriter you've come up with some amazing stuff."

"It's about the murder of an editor who refuses to publish a writer's work..."

"Drop everything, Dominic. I need you to proof this for blasphemy."

Trilby - Finis

"Moby Richard by Herman Melville" "Wonderful! Not sure about the title—let's discuss editor."

"By God, for a minute there it suddenly all made sense!"

'You can't reject my manuscript without due process!'

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

"There's the pressure from my public, naturally, as well as the pressure from my publisher, my agent, and all that. But the real pressure comes from that devil inside that makes me different from other men, that makes me a writer. But, of course, you know all about pressure, grinding out those papers at Sarah Lawrence."

'Thank god for the spellchecker!'

Publisher to writer: 'It was a great read, except I collided with run-on sentences, tripped over broken English and got knocked about by a dangling participle.'

"We do not usually acknowledge unsolicited manuscripts, but we want you to know that we tore yours into tiny pieces. Yours sincerely, The Op-Ed Page."

"Essentially Wilkins proves things and Brenner disproves them."

Man has thrown his computer aside and is writing on a typewriter.

'My thesis was entitled 'Tears of a Clown: Irony or Paradox?''

High Five

A man crosses a fountain pen bridge to reach books.

Colin kept a notebook by his bed to write down any ideas he had during the night... "Genulph hyu donkey slapperthwaite."

A monk illustrates a manuscript with emojis

'As is the fashion these days, it's about nothing.'

Rubbish, Poppycock, Balderdash

Proceedings of the club

"I just want to say thanks for getting me into this writing group."

"We're still pretty far apart. I'm looking for a six-figure advance and they're refusing to read the manuscript."

'He's a structural engineer.'

"They have a wonderful author-editor relationship."

"Here it is - my novel. I'll be interested to hear your compliments."

Monk Mistake

"Okay, I finished my novel. Now what?"

'It's not enough that you want to publish it, you must beg for it.'