'Ariel'
A place for Buffistas to discuss, beta and otherwise deal and dish on their non-fan fiction projects.
Well, I'm having problems organizing the story-- and I decided to bite the wallet and order Storyview--a software others have mentioned as being helpful in this regard.
It came this morning, and I almost did as well. Gonna do some ritin' tonight!
note to self: squeeing scares the poor UPS man.
That always makes me think of Christopher on the Sopranos. He said "I bought this screenwriting program. I thought it would do a lot of it." Cracked me up.
Does that do something like the Marshall Plan, and have you heard of the Marshall Plan? Greg's using it for the novel he's working on and so far really appreciates the help it's been.
I have heard of the Marshall Plan, I even thought I had the workbook around here someplace. (I have about a jillion books about writing. WD book club is monkey crack...but I'm off the stuff now.)
I believe this does something similar, but I'll have to wait till this evening to install it and get knee deep in the mud...
The Marshall Plan is where the U.S. government gives me oodles of money to reconstruct my novel.
Betsy, I think that's a different plan.
Unless you're a former CEO of course...
suh-NERK!
Woohoo, time to bring out the toys!!!
Most of the manuscripts-- short stories (and poetry, but those are single-spaced, of course)-- I see have serif fonts, double-spaced.
I don't care what font someone submits in, as long as it's not too fancy or unreadable. But, Jesus, I hate single-spaced MSes. It's practically impossible to edit.
Most publishing houses are really tight about that one, Liz. It does make sense; when you're reading through a slush pile, looking for a gem to rec, you want the content to stand out. All the deliberate attempt at quirky does is make the editor grind his or her teeth.
Waaaay back in the mid-seventies, I worked for a small childrens' educational publishing house here in SF called Troubador Press. The big thing was the illustrations, but we had the form letter that went out to everyone we were considering: "blah blah fishcakes all text doublespaced".
We were less picky about typefaces as I remember, because it was the age of the IBM Selectric and there were no home computers.