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Posted by honu (Member # 8277) on :
 
Hi all... a question is in my mind regarding electronic submissions.

That is: Do you still do this ( my name / title / page number) on every other or every page....even though it might never be a paper publication? (Especially if who you submit to ONLY does electronic publications.)

It seems redundant and artificially raises your word count if it isn't necessary.

I've read the links that seem to indicate that you do, but most of them don't really address electronic submissions so much as sending in paper submissions. thanks,
 


Posted by steffenwolf (Member # 8250) on :
 
If the electronic submission is the attachment of the Word document, I just leave everything as it would be for a paper submission. I don't think that would increase your word count, headers and footers shouldn't be included in that, I don't think.

Some places alternatively require you to paste the story into a text box or into the body of an email, or onto a forum (like JBU). In that case you would leave out the pages because pages are meaningless to that form.
 


Posted by tchernabyelo (Member # 2651) on :
 
If a market is asking for standard submission format - even electronicaly - then stick to standard submission format. Whether a given market will or won't print off their own copy, we authors have no way of knowing.

Some markets do have different formats, and some are quite picky about it - it can be a real pain trying to keep track of who wants what. But basically, unless they specifically state variances from standard, standard it should be.


I don't believe Word counts headers and footers in calculating wordcount - certainly I just tested that and it didn't for me. If you are MANUALLY putting that stuff at the top and bottom of pages, then it will, but you really really don't want to do that....
 


Posted by honu (Member # 8277) on :
 
thanks steffenwolf and tchernabyelo....It wasn't making sense at times to include it...esp if the publisher wanted it in rtf in the body
 


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