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jeno:

--- Quote from: Kali on September 11, 2010, 02:05:37 AM ---With a wordcount today of 4,802 words and a total wordcount of 81,120, the draft is done

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Go Kali! \o/

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: Kali on September 11, 2010, 02:05:37 AM ---With a wordcount today of 4,802 words and a total wordcount of 81,120, the draft is done, the bad guy defeated, the victory bittersweet at best and downright Pyrrhic at worst. 

Tomorrow, I begin the top-to-bottom edits I know I have to make.  Then I'll let it sit before I do a finesse edit to make it smooth and pretty.  I also realized tonight that I wrote it in "my" format:  single spaced, double spaces between paragraphs.  That means that when I do the final edit, I'll also have to double space it with indents at the beginning of paragraphs and single spaces between them.  Oi!  Bad enough to do that on a 20k short story.  Why don't these things occur to me in the first couple of pages and not the last couple?

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awesome.  The plus is that doublespacing is easy enough in most programs.  Not so much the indenting paragraphs, though, far as I know.  And that can become so extremely tedious with dialogue; I've had to do that when copying from one program to another.

Enjorous:
I forgot what you use Kali, but Word will indent the paragraphs for you quite easily.

Kali:
Really?  How?  'Cause I can remove the double-spacing with a find/replace, and then I can set the paragraphs to double-space.  How do I get the indents in automatically?

Enjorous:
At the top of the page there should be a ruler with two little arrow looking things, highlight all your text and drag the TOP arrow over however far you want the indent. That should do it.

If you're using 07 and don't see the ruler look at the top right hand side where there's a button just above the scroll bar that says "View ruler."

Hope that helps.

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