Lars Eighner's Homepage Writers' Workshop Examples

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{02}                 {3 single spaces = 1/2"}
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{04} Your true name            Caption such as "a short story" or "fiction"
{05} Your street address                                 Approx. word count
{06} Your city, state, zip                 Rights offered if not 1st serial
{07} Your social security number                    Note if disposable copy
{08} Your phone number (with area code)
{09} e-mail address or other contact information
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{13}      {The editor uses this space for various notes concerning
{14}   the placement of the story, the fonts for the text and
{15}   the titles and so forth.  Because the editor will mark it
{16}   up, don't use a different font for the title.}
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{19}{The title begins about 1/3 of the way down the page which is
{20}        22 single spaces from the top edge.}
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{22}          Your Title with Initial Caps for Important Words
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{24}               by Your Name or Pen Name if you use one
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{26} {Skip a double space.}
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{28}          Your story begins here.  First lines of paragraphs are
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{30}     indented 5 spaces (1/2").  Manuscript format is meant to
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{32}     facilitate page layout, editing, and typesetting.  It may
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{34}     not appeal to the untrained eye.
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{36}          Do not put extra space between paragraphs unless you
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{38}     mean to indicate a break in the story.
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{40}          Margins of at least one inch are allowed around the
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{42}     text on all sides.   Headers go in the top margin.  A
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{44}     standard 60-space line with a 10-pitch font leaves
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{46}     two-and-one-half inches for the right and left margins.  If
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{48}     you wish you can center the typing line, or as in this
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{50}     example you can put the extra space on the left where some
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{52}     editing marks may go.
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{54}          Notice that no attempt is made to make the right margin
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{56}     come out even.  Hyphens do not occur at the right margin.
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{58}     Single words are never hyphenated, and hyphenated expressions
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{60}     are carried whole to the next line if necessary.  Paragraphs
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