May 13, 2004
On manuscript submission
Bywater Books manuscript submission notes, found in Learn Writing with Uncle Jim.
On proper formatting…
If there is some really good reason, like you are using a typewriter, and not a computer and it’s a royal pain to re-format, then you can be the exception. Note the ‘really good reason’ part. ‘It’s a pain and I’d rather spend my time writing’, ‘the Xena rerun/WNBA game was on and I was too tired afterward’, ‘my ex-girlfriend set up the computer for me and I haven’t a clue as to how to reformat’ are not good reasons. Life is a learning curve. Your next girlfriend may be into needlepoint and not computers, so you might as well learn how to re-format now.
It was the needlepoint thing that got me. Elsewhere on that Learn Wrting page, Jim dissects a scene from his forthcoming short story, ”A Tremble in the Air,” sentence by sentence.
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