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[alg]

FOLLOW THE RULES: an article on following the rules of the playground -- because if you don't, we won't let you play in the sandbox.

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[annathepiper]

I'm another who just doesn't get why people might have issues with formatting a manuscript the way a publisher's guidelines asks them to format the manuscript. It ain't exactly tough. And if you make yourself a template for manuscript files in your word processor of choice, you don't even have to worry about reformatting the whole thing later.

Now if I can just whip one or two of these books bubbling out of my brain back out into the wild in their properly formatted glory... ;)

[alg.livejournal.com]

Hee.

I have discovered that if I sit down to write something, it absolutely has to be formatted in Way A. Even if it's just a freaking memo to be sent around explaining how to fax something. (Which I've done.)

But memos are formatted Way B. So I just.... reformat when I am done! Easy.

[annathepiper]

I used to write all my fanfic in good ol' Notepad. Now that I've whipped up a manuscript-format template in Word, I have to use it to write everything I work on, or else it just looks wrong. :) And this includes the query letters!