From Rick: It occurred to me after doing Part 3 that I didn’t show you how to use your new template. It’s pretty easy, actually, but there are a couple of cautions to be aware of. This will be a
Read MoreFrom Rick: With this post I will finish up this series. So far, we have set up our NORMAL style and SCENE BREAK style. A typical novel normally won’t need more than a half-dozen styles. You’ll probably want ones for
Read MoreFrom Rick: In Part 1 we created a new template to use for formatting your novel. In Part 2 we’re going to start to set up several Styles for the main body and things like title, chapters, scene breaks, and
Read MoreFrom Rick: In the past I’ve talked about basic manuscript cleanups, creating a clean source file for your manuscript, and formatting. I’ve also mentioned using Styles in MS Word to help with formatting, but I left that topic to your
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