But, there’s help: You can use findings of various web readability studies and other general web writing and styling practices to boost your post readership. Here are 12 of the most effective writing and formatting tactics to give you a head start. 1. Take the inverted pyramid approach to ...
This is where you can choose how detailed your table of contents will be. If you're writing a novel, you may only want to list the chapter titles in the table of contents (above). However, you can also choose to list your sub-headings as well (below). ...
Screenwriter's Bible: A Complete Guide to Writing, Formatting & Selling Your Script (2014). The screenwriter's bible: A complete guide to writing, formatting, and selling your script (6th ed.). Hollywood, CA: Silman-James Press.Trottier, D. (2009). The screenwriter's bible: A complete ...
To follow up on my earlier post about print-on-demand paperback self-publishing options, here is a primer to help you create, format, upload, and distribute your writing in e-book format. The best part is that the process I detail below is 100% free. Always be wary of anyone charging...
2. Book Writing As a writing program, Atticus boasts an entirely different set of features: Word processor:Atticus has a standard word processor with everything you would expect (i.e. boldface, italics, headings, etc.). Reusable elements:One cool feature with Atticus is that you can create ...
Formatting refers to a set of standards for academic writing that dictate how a paper should look, including typeface settings, margins, headers and footers, cover pages and page headings, and citations. Uniformity in writing is important for maintaining integrity, especially when it comes to citat...
A reader has a question about formatting dialogue in a novel: I have some confusion regarding speakers when writing dialog, and when you should start new lines. The logic I remember being taught is that every time the speaker changes in a story we should start a new paragraph. Is that alw...
Here’s a full tutorial on how to set up a novel in InDesign: Are You More of a Dictation Type of Person? Some professional writers decide to dictate their books. Dictating your novel can be a great way to speed up the writing process and let your thoughts go freely. Nick Thacker, ...
“Individualism in O’Connor’s ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find.'” When to use a capital letter is the trickiest part of writing book titles in essays. The rules vary between style guides and their editions, which can appear confusing and make it more challenging for students to align wit...
novelWriter is a plain text editor designed for writing novels assembled from many smaller text documents. It uses a minimal formatting syntax inspired by Markdown, and adds a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing. It's designed to be a simple text editor that allows...