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Hey everyone,

Does anyone know how to double-space in Gmail? I've done some googling and can't find a good answer. I ask this because I noticed almost all lit agents request double spacing in their sample chapter submissions. They also say to follow their submission guidelines "EXACTLY."

Whenever I try to double space, it doesn't work and I end up not double spacing, thus not following their submission guidelines "EXACTLY."

querytracker.net also has terrible formatting controls as well.

It seems like a Catch-22.

Any help will be appreciated.

I have had some responses on submissions that were not double spaced, but it always hangs in the back of my mind that I have not submitted correctly.

Thanks and cheers,

Dae D. Shields

Hey everyone,

I was just wondering if there is a way to turn chapters on and off once they have been posted? Or basically make them unavailable to readers while I make changes to the overall story?

Any help is appreciated.

Cheers,

Dae D. Sheilds

Hey everyone,

Copying and pasting your chapter to Notepad (in Windows) first, and then copying and pasting the chapter to TheNextBigWriter may help with wonky formatting.

I noticed some of the chapter postings have a bit of wonky formatting, with paragraph spaces and line breaks, etc., which I'm sure is frustrating to the original poster. I figured out this simple tip that might help everyone with their formatting, when posting to TNBW.

I found that if you copy your chapter from Word or Open Office or whatever, and first paste it into Notepad it will strip off all the weird formatting.  Next, simply copy your text from Notepad and then paste it to the TNBW site. This should keep all of your original line-breaks and paragraphs, etc. I find this works well for me. I also use this process when posting in Gmail as well.

Italics will not be preserved with this process, however.

Maybe everyone already knows this? Anyways, hope this helps someone.

Cheers,

Dae D. Shields