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This article was interestign because of the discussion it created, when realistically, the article was written to put the matter to rest!
I learnt to write on a typewriter, and my first few novels were typed up on the clunky old things too. But I don't even remember losing the double spacing urge.
GOOD Design Daily: Do You Double Space After Periods? - Design - GOOD - StumbleUpon
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Yes. This. For one thing, it shows that you are with the time and care about the latest typographic conventions. Sure, editors can edit it out, but if you submit something double-spaced, it shows you are 'an old fart' and don't care about being an old fart. Type double-spaced for all you like, but edit it out yourself before sending it off.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, I have dreams about being a mean ol' editor and editing an anthology just so I can put in the guidelines: any double-spaced manuscript will be rejected, just to test if people actually read these guidelines.
*evil grin*
Hee! You ARE evil!
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I taught myself to touch type at age 14 using the up-to-date manual of the time, "Practical Typewriting". Double-spacing was one of the things it taught me to do, so that's what I did. Many years and a billion double spaces later, I learned that thanks to computers, two taps on the space bar was one tap too many. Worse still, they could easily be interpreted as a sign of my *age*. Argh!!! I switched to single-spacing at once. Easy.
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