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09-05-2005, 05:36 PM
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Submission Formats. Someone explain please!
Can anyone give me a description of what a story should look like when you submit it to a magazine?
I know it should be double spaced with your name and address at the top, but is there anything else?
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09-05-2005, 08:44 PM
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Haha, i agree. I don't understand the no e-mail thing either. Thank you for the info! 
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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell." -- William Strunk Jr.
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09-06-2005, 07:07 AM
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starr... i think this poster only wants the general standards for ms submission, which don't vary... such as double-spaced, left-aligned, courier 12 pt, # for line breaks, header format, and the like...
graff... email me and i'll send you ms format guides/info...
and yes, you should always check each magazine's guidelines before submitting, to make sure the material you're sending is what they accept/publish...
love and hugs, maia
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09-06-2005, 07:33 AM
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maia, if you were to post them here, they'd be public for everyone to utilize.
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09-06-2005, 07:37 AM
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it's way too much for a post, ilan... i have a huge collection of format guides, tips, advice from the pros, etc... and the main ms format guide itself is many pages long, full of detailed explanations of all aspects of the ms...
so, i offer to forward them as attachments...
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09-06-2005, 07:42 AM
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Re: Submission Formats. Someone explain please!
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I don't mess with magazines which refuse to take e-mail submissions. In this electronic age it's a sure sign they are hopelessly out of date.
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All you're doing is cutting off your nose to spite your face. Big, well paying, magazines often refuse email subs because if they did, they'd get swamped by 100s of badly written, wrongly formatted submissions a day. Its got nothing to do with them being "out of date", merely to do with the amount (and quality) of submissions they can sucessfully handle. |
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09-06-2005, 07:44 AM
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too true, willie!
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09-06-2005, 07:46 AM
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What willie said, and the fact that files sent in electronically could, potentially, contain virus programs. The repercussions wouldn't be so noticeable for larger publishers but the smaller presses with smaller IT teams would be putting themselves at unnecessary risk.
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09-06-2005, 03:20 PM
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That would be extremely helpful Maia, thank you so much! I need something to follow when I'm setting up something to send in for publication.
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"Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in outline, but that every word tell." -- William Strunk Jr.
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09-07-2005, 06:24 AM
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just send me an email asking for whatever you need and i'll forward it to you immediately or sooner, graff...
love and hugs, m
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