Update Update

[kiya]

Still need to finish revising this Rory story and figure out how to submit this weird poem that has formatting too obnoxious for publishing but that's how it had to work. :/

ETA: Oh also in re: previous entry my expected CW rejection came in. :}

Comments

[graydon]

I seem to recall some published poetry that was way obnoxious about the formatting. Just how obnoxiously formatted are we talking, here?

[kiya]

It's a two-column poem (read simultaneously, ish) so not super obnoxious but I see a lot of poetry sub places saying they don't want to see typographical nonsense and of course because communication is fraught I don't know what level of obnoxious formatting is the problem.

[graydon]

Two columns is darn-near standard for some kinds of metrical verse. (anything with half-lines.)

I would not thing two columns was obnoxious at all. (Unless the columns have to have a wavery left edge or something, or subtly shift font size line by line.)

[kiya]

Heh, well, the left column has varying indents as well.

Honestly I suspect the Platonic ideal of this poem formatting would be 'centered section splitting into two columns and then rejoining to center again' but because I find that entirely too much to manage I am putting those bits into the left column.

[graydon]

What you describe for the formatting can be done in Word without selling any fraction of your soul, so this sounds to me like the sort of thing where you should let the editor tell you if it is too complicated or not.

[kiya]

Oh I am absolutely submitting it to the thing I wrote it for! (As soon as I figure out how to get Open Office to do the things that I need it to do to make it a page.)

[graydon]

If you should find yourself short of Open Office assistance, I can probably provide some.

[kiya]

Google fixed it for me! And thus it was one of the subs I made today, bringing my total on the year to 57 and my currently out to 20.

[graydon]

Huzzah, sustained pattern of success!

[lizvogel]

FWIW, I had a story published in a little indie anthology last year that was two columns with centered bits at start and end, and the editors managed to work with it without aneurysms. So it's not an unreasonable ask.