When making submissions, I always do my best to follow the posted guidelines. This time, I seem to have made an error however, and I'm wondering what I ought to do (if anything) to correct it.
I submitted a short story to an online magazine recently. They ask that all submissions be formatted in standard manuscript format. I formatted my story as such and sent it off.
Just today, I decided to peruse the document while I was working on another piece. To my horror, the formatting was botched. I'm not sure what happened; it might've been my error or a technological one, but the document was not double spaced and my by-line wasn't centered. Plainly speaking, the submission looked like crap.
So, I've been wondering. Should I email the editor of this mag and apologize? Re-submit? Hope that the editor will overlook my error and give my story a shot?
I submitted a short story to an online magazine recently. They ask that all submissions be formatted in standard manuscript format. I formatted my story as such and sent it off.
Just today, I decided to peruse the document while I was working on another piece. To my horror, the formatting was botched. I'm not sure what happened; it might've been my error or a technological one, but the document was not double spaced and my by-line wasn't centered. Plainly speaking, the submission looked like crap.
So, I've been wondering. Should I email the editor of this mag and apologize? Re-submit? Hope that the editor will overlook my error and give my story a shot?