in italics in the final printed version of your manuscript, then you should underline it in your manuscript. Never use actual italics in any manuscript that you plan to submit. It will only annoy the editor, and it makes it too easy for the typesetter to slide right past your emphasized word without noticing that he or she should have set it in italics. (You need to make life easy for the typesetter, as well, or you may find strange or obscene words showing up in the final printed version of your story.) If you want an em dash--the punctuation that sets off a phrase like this one--to appear in your manuscript, use two hyphens to indicate it. Do not place spaces around the dash. If you want a line break to appear in your story, then rather than leaving a blank line in your manuscript, you should center the character "#" on a line of its own. Do this for every line break, not just for ones that fall at the bottom or top of a page. As you revise a manuscript, you will find that the positions of these line breaks shift around, and this method is easier than hunting for those pesky blank lines after every revision and trying to determine whether or not they need to be marked. Finally, you do not need to do anything overt on the manuscript to indicate that your story is over. This should be obvious both from the story itself and from the fact that there are no more words after a certain point. Do not place "#" or "30" or "The End" or anything of the sort at the end of the story. The exception to this comes when the last line of your