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- 2024.01.20: A Brief Manuscript Formatting Checklist
- 2023.02.05: My 2¢ (Two Cents?) on Spelling Out Numbers in Text
- 2021.04.23: The Old Rule of Thumb for Estimating Word Count Is Obsolete
- 2021.04.16: The First Paragraph of Your Manuscript Should Look Like Any Other
- 2020.08.06: To Pronoun or Not to Pronoun: That Is the Initial Question
- 2020.04.16: “Proper Manuscript Format” Now Comes in Two Distinct Flavors
- 2015.07.31: Indenting Paragraphs Without the Tab Key
- 2015.01.28: When a Sentence Doesn't End with a Period
- 2015.01.22: How to Format a Poetry Collection
- 2014.10.31: Proper Paper Size for Manuscript Submissions
- 2014.10.10: Quotations at the Beginnings of Chapters
- 2014.10.03: Page Headers in Electronic Submissions
- 2014.02.21: Headers for Multi-Page Poem Manuscripts
- 2013.11.27: New Novel Template for Microsoft Word, Plus Advanced Macros
- 2013.11.05: Manuscript Template for Microsoft Word
- 2013.10.04: Formatting and Submitting Poems
- 2013.02.26: Indicating Boldface Type
- 2013.02.20: The Superfluity of a Table of Contents
- 2013.01.30: Page Headers for New Chapters
- 2012.08.17: Creating a Page Header in Word
- 2012.08.13: Differentiating Major and Minor Scene Breaks
- 2012.03.23: Can My Word Processor Insert Two Spaces Automatically?
- 2012.01.17: Formatting a Children's Book
- 2012.01.13: Which Courier to Choose?
- 2012.01.09: When Is a Scene Break Not a Scene Break?
- 2011.12.12: Why You Won't Go to Hell for Putting Two Spaces After a Sentence
- 2011.12.09: Formatting Text Messages
- 2011.12.01: Testifying with Boldface
- 2011.11.29: I Never Seen So Many Bleedin' Arials
- 2011.09.21: Converting All Italics in Your Document to Underlines
- 2011.03.07: Cheating the Format
- 2010.10.26: Regarding Line Height, Close Is Good Enough
- 2010.09.23: Indicating Large Divisions in Your Book Manuscript
- 2010.09.22: Long Quotations Within Your Text
- 2010.09.16: Meet the Courier Family
- 2010.09.14: Sentence Spacing
- 2010.09.14: Formatting Nonfiction
- 2010.09.13: Setting Off a New Paragraph
- 2010.09.11: Confusing File Format with Manuscript Format
- 2010.09.10: Choosing the Right Printer
- 2010.09.09: Formatting Email Submissions
- 2010.09.02: Proper Manuscript Format for the 21st Century
- 2010.03.15: Publishers Who Ask for Camera-Ready Copy
- 2009.10.11: Composing a Cover Letter
- 2009.08.20: Word Counts for Proposal Submissions
- 2009.08.17: Labeling Scenes Within a Chapter
- 2009.08.13: Uncorrecting the Ellipsis Character
- 2009.08.12: Ending Your Manuscript
- 2009.07.14: Positioning Chapter Headers on the Page
- 2009.07.12: Confusing Book Design with Manuscript Formatting
- 2009.05.11: How Line Height Relates to Word Count
- 2009.05.10: Some Fine Points of Underlining
- 2009.05.09: When to Use a Separate Title Page
- 2009.03.24: Copyrighting Your Work
- 2009.03.20: Story Collection Format
- 2009.03.19: Indicating Literal Thoughts
- 2009.03.16: Proper Novella Format
- 2009.03.15: Word Count vs. Page Count
- 2009.02.28: Automatic Page Numbers in Word
- 2009.02.27: Formatting Text in Interesting Shapes
- 2009.02.12: Word Count Discrepencies in Novel Submissions
- 2009.02.11: Italicizing Long Blocks of Text
- 2009.02.11: The Format to Come
Recent Posts
- A Brief Manuscript Formatting Checklist
- My 2¢ (Two Cents?) on Spelling Out Numbers in Text
- The Old Rule of Thumb for Estimating Word Count Is Obsolete
- The First Paragraph of Your Manuscript Should Look Like Any Other
- To Pronoun or Not to Pronoun: That Is the Initial Question
- “Proper Manuscript Format” Now Comes in Two Distinct Flavors
- Indenting Paragraphs Without the Tab Key
- When a Sentence Doesn't End with a Period
- How to Format a Poetry Collection
- Proper Paper Size for Manuscript Submissions
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