Go read the "How to Critique" sticky post. It'll tell you how you need to minimally format it.

Because of AP? Just get a couple of people together and play it! The doors'll be open for a couple of weeks, probably, and if you're done before everyone goes back to their home studios, there'll surely be help. If not, then yeah, next time.

Oh, no: minimum is that you make it legible. Two columns on letter size is minimum. If you know better than that, by all means.

Then make it clear what you're looking for in the post!

What word processor are you using?

This is a two-column layout (with sidenotes, but you can ignore that).

It makes the number of characters per line legible. If the text goes all the way across the page, it's easier to lose your place when you go to the next line. If you make the columns shorter, there's this choppy feeling when you're reading.

"Letter" just means regular paper size.

These standards are just so the folks who are reading what you've written have the greatest advantage when trying to read it. It's a courtesy to people who are trying to help you.

You're not over your head. You're at a swimming lesson.

It turns out Google Docs doesn't allow multi-column formatting, probably due to the infuriating limitations of HTML and CSS. There's a multi-column feature of CSS, but it's been a "draft" for a long time. I think it's supposed to be a CSS5 feature, but it won't be widely accepted for years. That means Google Docs won't be a good page layout tool for at least as long.

What platform are you using? If you're on a Mac, Pages in iWork is quite good, if basic. iWork costs $80.

OpenOffice is free, though I haven't used it for years and found it really grating.

I know Word gives you multi-column support, but it's a terrible, terrible layout app; it does all sorts of really awful things to your page and then reduces the amount of actual control you have. If it's all you've got, though, it'll do this much, at least.

There are, of course, more sophisticated apps, but let's start simple.

Great! Get it looking readable, then start a thread about it!

Yeah, that would work OK, though if I wanted to print it out (this is about 16 pages of text, remember), it would be incumbent on me to figure out how to print 2-up. Since the purpose is easy reading of the person doing critique for you, that might not be great.

On the other hand, if you can get the PDF to generate 2-up, I think it would be fine!