Sentence space?

Sunshine13 · May 25, 2008

Ok, I tired to search for this in AW but either I'm a dolt when it comes to our search engine thingie, or nothing is coming up (but I'm sure this has been asked before . . . or maybe not).

ANYway . . . is there a rule on the space between lines? I currently have it set at 1.5 (it's easier for me to read when it's not so jumbled together). But, after looking at some listings, I don't see "line space" being anything of real important versus say, font type. So, what's the rule, if there is one? Single space? 1.5? Double? Doesn't matter?

alleycat · May 25, 2008

Use double. It is important on submissions. The only exception is sometimes online magazines want single; they will say in their guidelines if they do.

Hey, cute little girl!

choppersmom · May 25, 2008

You used one of my favorite words just there, Christa ("dolt" - how I love that word!) so I'm inclined to say, do whatever you like. But alleycat is correct. Double it is. It's easier to read, and I know I like to make lots of notes on things, and double gives me the room to do that. Maybe editors do that too. I don't know.

Alleycat is also correct about the cute little girl - my goodness, what a face! How do you keep her from asploding the neighbors from teh Qte?

dpaterso · May 25, 2008

Yes, when submitting, double-spaced is the default (unless guidelines specify otherwise).

When you're writing, of course you can set the line spacing, font and size to anything you want -- whatever's most pleasing to your eye. You can easily change these to double-spaced Courier 12 before you submit your mss. anywhere.

-Derek

Phaeal · May 25, 2008

Or double-spaced Times New Roman 12. I compose in double spaced, myself. I like the restful white expanses.

Kalyke · May 25, 2008

I like single space. It is so cool when five pages turn into ten magically.

Sunshine13 · May 25, 2008

You guys crack me up. Thanks for the help! And thanks for the compliments on my daughter. She's my angel.

Sentence space?

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