: Re: Should you use two spaces after a period, or just a single one? I had heard some debate on this topic, and I had always learned to use two spaces after a period. But it would seem there

The catty answers from unpublished writers amuse me. I double-space after periods, not because I'm old enough to use a type writer but because that's how I was taught. Double-spacing and monospace fonts absolutely make initial editing much easier. For my final edit, I prefer to make a faux galley to check how well the flow works when it is typeset as it will be as a book. When I turn it in, I only take out the spaces if I'm really pushing 400 pages and it buys me a page or two. (In my genre, publishers get really unhappy when you go over the magic 100k mark.) I've published 6 books with a major NY publisher and never had an editor comment on spacing after a period. The book gets typeset anyway. It's a non-issue.

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: Re: Should you use two spaces after a period, or just a single one? I had heard some debate on this topic, and I had always learned to use two spaces after a period. But it would seem there

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: How can people doing technical, archane work be portrayed interestingly? I'd like to write the biography of an important, underrated scientist who performed a really important experiment. He persevered

: How to cite CD-ROM resources (Turabian) I have the PC Study Bible, which is a collection of resources (Bible versions, commentaries, &c.) bundled together and accessed via a special software

: How about a story as a series of anecdotes? I have a concept for a story I'd like to do where my purpose for writing the story is simply to explore a hypothetical society by means of anecdotes

: Parts, books, volumes, etc Is there any standard (or at least common) hierarchical arrangement for major divisions of a fiction book? For instance, I occasionally see some large novels divided

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