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Formatting guidelines–PART 2 (Word options & clean ups)

02/04/201302/05/2013 Write Well, Write To Sell 435 Views 0 Comments error correction, fiction writing, manuscript formatting, publishing, rick taubold, self-publishing

From Rick: Last time, I covered some key formatting points for your manuscripts. In this part, I’m first going to show you how to set your MS Word defaults to sensible settings to help you avoid problems. The instructions are

Basics of writing Editing Formatting

Manuscript formatting guidelines–PART 1

01/28/201304/08/2014 Write Well, Write To Sell 406 Views 0 Comments editing, editing tips, error correction, first line indent vs. tabs, good writing techniques, manuscript formatting, publishing, rick taubold

From Rick: We talk a lot about the specifics of grammar and craft in this blog, but one aspect of writing we’ve left out so far deals with the basics of formatting your story or manuscript. Just so we’re clear,

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Crafting a great title–Part 1

10/16/201210/22/2012 Write Well, Write To Sell 425 Views 1 Comment crafting a great title, Nancy Kress, novel title creation, novel titles, novel writing, publishing, rick taubold, self-publishing, story titles

From Rick: Many authors will tell you that they suck at creating titles. I’ve had decent luck coming up with good ones for my works, but sometimes I’ll get stuck and nothing I try seems to work. Book titles are

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Self-publishing 2011: A year of changes and face-offs

01/02/201208/15/2012 Write Well, Write To Sell 376 Views 0 Comments 2011 review, how publishers treat authors, indie publishing, publishing, publishing contract issues, publishing contracts, self-publishing, self-publishing news, traditional publishing

Here’s our round-up of thoughts from 2011. From Rick: November 19, 2007–Amazon introduced the first Kindle (was it really that long ago?), and the revolution began. Sure, e-books existed long before that. Check out this Wikipedia article. But most folks

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The Journey Begins

08/22/201108/25/2011 Write Well, Write To Sell 330 Views 0 Comments author, indie, publishing, self-publishing, writing

Welcome to “Write Well, Write To Sell.” Thanks for joining Scott and me. We’re Rick Taubold and Scott Gamboe, both published authors by the traditional route as well as venturing into the indie/self-publishing world. Our blog has three goals: (1)