by Barbara Bailey <rabrabbjb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Feb 9, 2008 at 01:33 AM
Jamesplaywright <Jamesplaywright@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:6884c3db-47b2-
460f-b719-0f24244c9477@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have completed two plays now and am wondering if I can cheat a
> little on the formatting. I know that if I was to go to single space
> lines instead of double space -I would have less pages. I was thinking
> that I could try printing on both sides of the page as well . Has
> anybody tried this and submitted it to contests? Will a theatre regect
> your manuscript if it is not so kosher? Will they even tell you if the
> formatting is wrong?
>
> Emerging playwright Jim
>
It's a safe bet that if the contest or agent or whoever has said anything
about format, that they will ignore any submissions that are not formatted
according to those instructions. Probably without telling you. Ease of
reading trumps number of pages, and single side printing makes it easy to
keep track of which stack is "I've read these" and which is "I haven't
read
these yet." because most folks, reading a stack of loose pages will lay
the
one's they've finished aside with the printed-side down (and therefore
blank-side up.)
