3:48 / 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

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