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The more time I spend on this forum, the more mistakes I realise that I've made in the past. Now that it really counts, subbing a full ms ( requested revisions) to an agent, I know that the final judgement is coming soon and I want to get everything perfect.

I have a few questions I hope you guys can answer for my e-mail sub:

Double or single spacing?

TNR or Courier New?

Italics like this or _italics like this_ ?

Do I include the page thingy at the top (Writer 1-Writer 2/BOOK TITLE #) in the e-sub?

Is there large spaces between chapters?

How the heck do you show paragraph breaks when sometimes you do breaks to show a separation of time like:

Suzie fell asleep quickly


School was going to be nightmarish today--flocks of teenage girls would be begging boys to be their prom date, whether they were going out or not, there was the chem test she never did study for, oh and there was Jason. Jason always made her day worse.

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Yes, the agent requested it. It's a full revision on a requested full. My co-writer was in charge of sending material the agent until he (the co-writer) forwarded it to me and I realised how incredibly unprofessional it looked, and I was just like, uhhh no. Let me handle this. Kthanxbai.

And thanks.
 

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Yes, the agent requested it. It's a full revision on a requested full. My co-writer was in charge of sending material the agent until he (the co-writer) forwarded it to me and I realised how incredibly unprofessional it looked, and I was just like, uhhh no. Let me handle this. Kthanxbai.

And thanks.

If they requested the full, can't you not send it as an attachment?
 

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Yeah, no attachments. Attachments would make my life so much easier.
 

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If you weren't given any guidance by the agent, I guess you can pretty much choose whether you want to make it standard manuscript format or more web-formatted (single space--double between paragraph), but I really don't know.

How the heck do you show paragraph breaks when sometimes you do breaks to show a separation of time like:

Suzie fell asleep quickly


School was going to be nightmarish today--flocks of teenage girls would be begging boys to be their prom date, whether they were going out or not, there was the chem test she never did study for, oh and there was Jason. Jason always made her day worse.

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I think I can help on this one. I always put a # between the lines when I want to show a break in scene/time. I do this in standard manuscript format or not. Hope this helps! :D
 
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