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... ;)
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.
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!
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Date: 2006-02-27 10:03 pm (UTC)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... ;)
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Date: 2006-02-27 10:08 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-02-27 10:13 pm (UTC)