Combine that with the fact that most Kobo ebooks uses
spaces between paragraphs instead of indentations, it really makes for lots of blank space, especially with dialogue.
There's also the fact most Kobo ebooks have
spaces between paragraphs instead of indented paragraphs, which wastes even more space.
Use styles to control
space between paragraphs instead of just hitting [Return].
Format your submission for convenient e-mail reading by losing all of your paragraph indents and placing a single
space between each paragraph instead.
Not exact matches
Microsoft Word's default Normal style in older versions of Word is set to not add
space between paragraphs by default so authors learned to add them in manually with extra
paragraph breaks
instead of modifying the style settings.
Now if they would just give us the option to display text with indented
paragraphs instead of using
spaces between paragraphs...
Holding down Shift while pressing Enter
instead of just using the Enter key at the end of a
paragraph where a blank linespace is desired
between paragraphs (in order to produce more reliable results); just ignore the strange
spacing that it creates because the eReaders will ignore it, too.
Instead of focusing on the number of words, focus on making your cover letter one page or less, with a readable font and font size, and enough white
space between paragraphs and in the margins.