Tag: Manuscript formatting

Orphan & Widow Task
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Orphan & Widow Task

Writing Sparkle1 Comment

Have you been trying to format your novel and struggling to figure out why there is a gap of space at the bottom of some pages where there should be text? I struggled with this when I formatted my first book in my Ember Files series. It was maddening trying to figure out why some… Continue reading Orphan & Widow Task

Double-sided page layout
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Double-sided page layout

Writing Sparkle5 Comments

I learned a lot about Word while formatting my first self-published novel. One of those things involved paragraphs and how they look on the pages of a print novel. This is important so pages don’t look like they have a narrow column of text in the middle of the page; the margins around the text… Continue reading Double-sided page layout