I know about that, Chef Troy. That was the main reasoning behind this question: I do a lot of screenplay writing, am very familiar with how dead-on formatting has to be, and thought novels were the same. Apparently not to such great lengths as screenplays, though.
Thanks to everyone for your input and help. Like I said, I’m familiar with script format, but not book format (or in this case, industry standards for manuscripts). I really do want to write this story as a novel, and plan on doing so (I’m quite a ways in, actually). It’s a story I really want to tell, and think that a novel would be the best form for it.
Do it in Times Roman 8 and you’re asking for trouble.
The standard is Courier 12. Editors want monospaced fonts to they can accurately determine how many pages the stories will run. They don’t want the text to be small or they can’t read it. You could get away with Courier 10, or Prestige 10 or 12, but Times Roman is asking for trouble.
I suspect a lot of editors wouldn’t even bother to read 8 point Times Roman.
