#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 9: What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?

TImes New Roman, 12pt, double line spacing, extra wide margins.

I'm lazy, that's what most publishers have asked for.

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 9: What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?

Standards? Standards? We don't need no stinkin' standards!!!

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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/9. What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?
Normal first-draft setup is Arial, 12 pt on A4 on Scriv.
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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/9. What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?
For drafting, which is personal, the font is Cambria 11pt, on A4, 123% zoom on my laptop.
But because I use Paragraph Styles, it takes 30 seconds to…
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#WritersCoffeeClub 9 Sep
What's your standard operating font, size, format? Or do you not have a standard?

For short stories I want to sell, Shunn manuscript format in Courier 12. Or Times if the submission guidelines ask for that. Always read the submission guidelines. Always.

For paperbacks […]

#WritersCoffeeClub 9th Sept ~ What's your standard operating font, size, format?

For myself: Calibri, 11pt, 1.5 line spacing, 2cm margins, British standard indent style, no spaces before/after paragraph

For submissions: their house style

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#WritersCoffeeClub 9/8: International Literacy Day! Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

My current WIP has been read by a few, and it surprised me what a difference a professional voice does to the text, when they read it back to me.

It sounded a lot more like a book and […]

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 8: International Literacy Day! Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

Showed my WIP to my nursing practitioner so she could read a paragraph or two. She didn't want to give it back. Really surprised me!

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#WritersCoffeeClub 8 Sep
International Literacy Day! Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

I've only heard my work read 3 times
* audio version of The Horror in the Snow
* Shadows at the Door anthology audiobook version of Under Sheil Croft
* Shadows at the Door podcast […]

#WritersCoffeeClub 9th Sep ~ Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.

Each time someone reads my work and describes their experience. They process the narrative through their own lens and bring out a depth that was unintentional but welcome.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Sep. 8/9: Share a moment when a reading of your work surprised you.
The most surprising reading of my work was when a colleague of my partner, an eminent name in narrative sociology and health research, described Three Kinds of North…
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#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 7: What's something you thought would help your workflow, but didn't work out?

Scrivener.

It vexes me. Somehow it manages to make my entire process about itself rather than the story I'm writing.

It turns writing time into binder-organising, metadata-tagging […]

#WritersCoffeeClub Sept. 7: What's something you thought would help your workflow, but didn't work out?

A writing room. I thought I would use it more. Fortunately, my cat is happy with it.

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#WritersCoffeeClub Sep. 6 – If you work digitally, what keyboard or dictation do you use? If paper, what do you write with?

I'm a digital person. My keyboard? A Razer Ornata Chroma, a gaming keyboard with RGB, perfectly fine for non-gaming uses.

I used to use the Evernote App, but that was […]

#WritersCoffeeClub Sep. 5 – Do you track your word count? How? Why?

Only becouse the software I use does it automatically. I don't really pay that much attention to it outside working if I'm going to break 50k minimum goal for my books.

#WritersCoffeeClub 7th Sep ~ What's something you thought would help your workflow, but didn't work out?

Scrivener. I tried it late last year. It's too much of a learning curve for me to grant brain space at the moment. Maybe, at some point, I'll look at it again

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#WritersCoffeeClub 7/9: What's something you thought would help your workflow, but didn't work out?
Any ‘plotting assistance’ stuff, whether software or text based. Because I’ve done a lot of outlining in my non-fiction…
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