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Lots of studies suggest the optimal line length for reading (and therefore writing) is somewhere between 50 and 75 characters per line. You may have the quantity there but your ability to read it well will diminish… and reading your work as you go is as important as getting words down in the first place. To put it another way: squeezing in too much on screen is self-defeating. In a nutshell the lesson is this: if the number of letters in a line on screen is too long you’ll lose your ability to focus on the actual words. It’s talking about the optimal length of a line of text for reading in a web page but the same applies for writing on anything, be it a computer or a tablet. There’s an excellent academic take on this subject from the Baymard Institute here.
Before you pick the right font for writing you need to understand something called ‘line length’. We want the process to become invisible, and the story - the characters, the world, the narrative - to shine through.įirst things first though.
What we’re aiming for is, in a sense, what we aim for in writing itself. If there’s something wrong with your screen setup it will nag at you. But worry we do so let me try to offer some words of advice stemming from twenty years of dealing with book manuscripts.īecause this is important. And too busy to worry about any of this stuff. Then you see the Font Menu and think Oh my God this would be so much easier if I switched the whole manuscript to Goudy Old Style. You’re sitting there in front of the computer, struggling to come up with some words. Let’s talk about one of our favourite writing avoidance devices: picking the right font for your manuscript.Īnyone who’s tried to turn out a novel knows this exercise.
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