Paragraph indentations in your MS? email vs. paper

HFgal

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Hi,
This was partially covered in another email, but I'm still confused...

If I were snail mailing paper pages of my MS, I think I am supposed to do Times Roman 12, 1 inch margins all around, paragraph indentations, no line space between paragraphs. Is this right?

But if I am emailing pages of my MS, I think I am supposed to do Times Roman 12, margins aren't an issue... but here's where I get lost. Are you supposed to do paragraph indentations? If you don't, surely you have to do line space between paragraphs, or else how will you know a new paragraph is starting?

I'm hoping it is acceptable to do para indents and no lines between paras for BOTH, so that I don't have to have two different versions, but I'll do whatever is right if there is a clear right and wrong.
 

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Hi,
This was partially covered in another email, but I'm still confused...

If I were snail mailing paper pages of my MS, I think I am supposed to do Times Roman 12, 1 inch margins all around, paragraph indentations, no line space between paragraphs. Is this right?

But if I am emailing pages of my MS, I think I am supposed to do Times Roman 12, margins aren't an issue... but here's where I get lost. Are you supposed to do paragraph indentations? If you don't, surely you have to do line space between paragraphs, or else how will you know a new paragraph is starting?

I'm hoping it is acceptable to do para indents and no lines between paras for BOTH, so that I don't have to have two different versions, but I'll do whatever is right if there is a clear right and wrong.

I don't know about the first one because I live in Norway so I'm sure as hell ain't gonna be sending snail mail to USA. But on the email one, you don't do indents, you just need a line space between the paragraphs.
 

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I don't know about the first one because I live in Norway so I'm sure as hell ain't gonna be sending snail mail to USA. But on the email one, you don't do indents, you just need a line space between the paragraphs.

Does anyone know if no-indent-yes-line-between-paragraphs is ALSO acceptable for paper/snail mail? I would think not, which means that you would have to have two different formats if you are querying both kinds of agents.
 

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That's what I do, HFgal. I have two files, one with the properly formatted snail mail version (or the attached Word doc version) and another formatted for email. It's kind of a pain to keep two, but it's much easier to read an email formatted with spaces between paragraphs.
 

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In either case, send a test version of the email to yourself before you send it to the agent.