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- From: lnh@soliton.physics.arizona.edu (sometimes a Wombat)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Fiction Advice 4: Ms. Format
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.171041.29867@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 17:10:41 GMT
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- Crawford_Kilian@mindlink.bc.ca (Crawford Kilian) writes:
- > Manuscript Format
- >
- > Underline text only if you cannot italicize it.
-
- This is exactly the reverse what what all the editors on GEnie -- and
- they are legion -- say.
-
- > Be sure that each page displays a plain Arabic numeral in the upper
- > right-hand corner. Otherwise, don't bother with a header. They're not going
- > to scatter your ms. or lose the title page.
-
- But they do. Again, the editors on GEnie who not only are legion but
- insistent on this point say DO use a header with LastName/WordFromTitle/#
-
- Have you ever seen an editor's office? Do you know just how many mss.
- they read a month? Do you know WHERE they read them? Subways, lots of
- times. (No time to read unsolicited mss. in the office.)
-
- Larry "Voice of the dust devil" Hammer
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