Practicalities / Enter the Writing Business

 Herewith, the most boring yet essential of all the writing business information: Practicalities

MS Preparation and the Nuts & Bolts of the everyday Writing Life.

Content

  • 0:40 Intro / 7 Common Manuscript Elements
  • 2:16 Boilerplates
  • 3:27 Disclaimers
  • 4:30 Front Titles List
  • 6:10 Acknowledgements and Reader Notes
  • 7:40 Table of Contents
  • 8:22 Chapter Headings & Page Breaks
  • 10:55 A Book of the Book
  • 12:50 Word Processing Basics
  • 15:07 Fonts and Special Images
  • 18:11 Page Breaks and Text Flow
  • 20:34 Oxford Commas?
  • 21:06 Spacing?
  • 21:40 Print-Outs
  • 23:17 Stats and Percentages?
  • 26:54 Save the Eyes
  • 27:48 Closing


Direct link to the audio https://eden5695.podbean.com/e/348-practicalities-enter-the-writing-business/?token=078c6a39486442817d3056f3fe318d28

Direct Link to the video https://youtu.be/OwOr04FEDCs


As always THANKS for listening.


Please scroll to find other ways to listen or to connect with us.

No comments:

Post a Comment

The Write Focus ~ Who / What / How / Why

6:24 / Summer Writing Challenge / Wk 3 and Interview with Al Sirois

  Welcome to our third week of June and our third week of the Summer Writing Challenge. How is your challenge going? Share your progress i...

See What Others Like