Recently, the wonderful assistant of a fabulous agent asked for a partial based on an e-query. She said I could either send it as an attachment or hard copy. I sent a hard copy and am not feeling great about it -- I truly wish I would've sent the attachment, but I took one look at Word's green squiggly lines and opted for hard copy.
Would either of them have taken one look at those underlined sentence fragments and zipped back a fast rejection? Or the proper nouns that Word thinks I've misspelled -- would that be a red flag?
I apologize if this is inane, I've over-thought it ever since I mailed the partial: they're professionals so obviously they understand Word, but I want to appear as intelligent as possible and those squiggly lines and proper nouns bother me so maybe an agent would also be bothered?
I searched a few sections of AW but couldn't find any mention of this. If it is too inane, you can blame my favorite history prof who told me: "If you're wondering about it then someone else is too, so just ask."
Thanks for any/all input. The angel on my shoulder says I won't need the info, but she's never had a novel published either.
Would either of them have taken one look at those underlined sentence fragments and zipped back a fast rejection? Or the proper nouns that Word thinks I've misspelled -- would that be a red flag?
I apologize if this is inane, I've over-thought it ever since I mailed the partial: they're professionals so obviously they understand Word, but I want to appear as intelligent as possible and those squiggly lines and proper nouns bother me so maybe an agent would also be bothered?
I searched a few sections of AW but couldn't find any mention of this. If it is too inane, you can blame my favorite history prof who told me: "If you're wondering about it then someone else is too, so just ask."
Thanks for any/all input. The angel on my shoulder says I won't need the info, but she's never had a novel published either.