Lars Eighner's Homepage Writers' Workshop Examples

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{05}     {preferences for placement of page numbers vary *.  Just
{06}  use a plain number, unadorned with the word "page."}                   
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{11}     break where they will, and no attempt is made to keep 
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{13}     paragraphs together on a single page.                          
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{15}          Editors with newspaper training may prefer the page
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{17}     numbers with the slug line (upper left), but other editors 
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{19}     insist that the upper-right corner is the only correct
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{21}     place.
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{23}          Standard paper is eleven inches long, and in standard
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{25}     fonts there are six lines to the inch.  Allowing for a  
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{27}     one-inch margin, top and bottom, fifty-four lines remain for
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{29}     typing.  Since all material to be set in type should be
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{31}     double-spaced, that would allow twenty-six lines of text.  
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{33}     But twenty-five or twenty-four lines is more standard, and
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{35}     the extra space is used at the top between the slug line and
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{37}     the beginning of the text.
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{39}          Thus, with a standard sixty-character line, an average
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{41}     page will contain 250 words (six characters for the average
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{43}     English word and the space following it).  In fact, pages with
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{45}     many short lines, as may occur with dialogue, will contain
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{47}     fewer words.
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{49}          Any editor who makes use of hard copy at all can use a
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{51}     manuscript in this format.  Manuscripts in proportional fonts
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{53}     with unusual layouts may pose difficulties for editors who
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{55}     rely on standard format to make estimates of how much space
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{57}     stories will require when set in print.  Obviously, the wise  
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{59}     writer wants to make it easy for as many editors as possible
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