Formatting Fundamentals:

Shaping up your manuscript for publication

by Pat Hauldren

upcoming classes:

04/05–04/29 — Formatting Fundamentals (online/Low Country RWA) (combines Formatting Fundamentals & Formatting for Effect)

05/06-05-30 — Formatting Fundamentals (online/Celtic Hearts RWA) (combines Formatting Fundamentals & Formatting for Effect)

At the end of this workshop, students will know how to format their  manuscript for various types of publication (print/online/etc.). An editor or agent should never have to inform the writer how to format a manuscript and some agents actually reject the first hint of non-professional formatting. Here we’ll not only learn how to format properly, but to set up templates for different types of writing software and markets. The audience for this class is anyone wishing to publish professionally. There is no pre-requisite.

outline:

• Working in your word processor
• Margins
• Headers
• Title page
• Chapter pages
• Scene endings & beginnings
• Paragraphing
• Lines per page.
• Single or double? Online or print?
• Templates
• Q&A

This course may be used as a prerequisite for Formatting for Effect, where we lean how to format our text to provide the most effective and dramatic presentation to the reader.