Two Spaces After a Period – It’s Time to Stop
It's New Year's Day 2015 as I write this. The roads in Lubbock covered in a sheet of ice and my wife taking a nap on the couch, so I'm editing my book for a second printing and I realized that I've made a huge writer's sin. Well, actually, a lot of them. I'll save the others for some later blog post. Throughout the book (as well as throughout this blog and in emails I write and pretty much anything that I type,) I frequently find myself putting two spaces after periods and other sentence ending punctuation. When I first wrote the book, Kyle Word, my writing coach, editor, sounding board, and literary savant, told me to stop doing using two periods (explanation below.) So I did. At least I thought I did. I was wrong. Well over half of the sentences in the 150 page book have two spaces after every sentence. So Why Do We Use Two Spaces? I know what you're thinking. The same thing I thought when this first came up. "No way, Jose! I was taught by...