On Feb 8, 5:33=A0pm, Barbara Bailey <rabrab...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Jamesplaywright <Jamesplaywri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:6884c3db-47b2-
> 460f-b719-0f24244c9...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 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. =A0Ease
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
rea=
d
> these yet." because most folks, reading a stack of loose pages will lay
th=
e
> one's they've finished aside with the printed-side down (and therefore
> blank-side up.)
A friend of mine commented that I should not submit the synapsis
unless it is double spaced too! I had always seen synapsis in single
space and not double space. I guess it is supposed to be like this to
make it easy to make comments if they want to.
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