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Formatting your Manuscript

If you’re planning on one day turning your manuscript in to literary agents and publishing houses, you need to make sure it’s formatted correctly. In many cases, your manuscript will be skipped over if it isn’t done to industry standard, so here’s the basics that you’ll need if you don’t want to be ignored. Before I get started, please know that this is aimed specifically at fiction manuscripts. If you’re writing non-fiction or a memoir, the expectations will be different, so it would be wise to Google what you need.

The Basics

Make sure your font is 12 point Times New Roman, Courier New, or Arial. These are the only three fonts you are allowed to pick from.

Your spacing should be 1 inch on all sides of the text. This is the default on most word processors, but double check your settings just to be sure.

Your text should be double spaced.

All of your indentations must be a half inch. Do not press indent. Instead, drag over the top arrow on the ruler to have every new paragraph automatically indent.

The Title Page

The top left-hand corner of your title page will have all your personal information. They want to see your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the novel’s genre, and word count.

Your novel’s title is allowed to be between 20-24 point font if you want. Bold is also an option, but not necessary.

The title will appear halfway down the title page.

“A novel by [your name]” will be about three quarters of the way down the page.

The Next Pages

If you have a dedication, it will be on its own page.

If you have some sort of verse or quote, those will also need their own pages.

Do not include a page for acknowledgements.

The Chapters

Chapter titles will be 12 point font. No bolding or italics.

Chapters will start from one quarter to halfway down the page.

An easy way to format chapter headings is to press enter five or six times

Make sure you always start your chapters the same way every time.

When you start a new chapter, make sure you use a page break to bump the new chapter onto a new page. This will keep it in place so that it will never budge, no matter how much you cut out or add to the previous chapter.

Page Numbers

Page numbers will start with 1 on Chapter 1 of your manuscript. Page numbers will not appear on the title page or dedication page.

Page 1 will be labeled in the footer of Chapter 1. It should be centered.

Page 2 will be in the header of the next page.

From page 2 onward, your headers will be labeled like this:

If you insert a section break after the title and dedication pages, it will make it easier to insert the page numbers.

For the most part, this is the most important of what you’ll need to know for formatting your manuscript. I used this video as reference, so I’m trusting everything it says is true because it was made by an author who has several novels published, and because it was uploaded this year, it should be up to date.

Ive had jewelers do a double take when I went in to buy something for a relative.

Plus its discovery was an in an impact crater from a meteor by french chemist Henri Moissan.

If that isnt the coolest shit ever. Something from space made this and it looks better.

11/10 will always recommend.

Also Japanese police have a 90+% rate of successfully arresting a “suspect” for every crime they investigate. At first this sounds really impressive, how they always track down the criminal, until you realize that they do it through a combination of refusing to investigate crimes which seem hard to solve or are likely to involve organizes crime or politicians (lots of “suicides” and “accidents” which are very blatant murder), and any time they do open a case but fail to figure everything out in the first day or two they just grab a convenient scapegoat (usually poor, frequently an immigrant or ethnic minority).

Baseborn surnames are generally surnames given to bastards or orphans.

Primarily a custom used by cultures who place a lot of stock in bloodlines and surnames, therefore mostly Alliance.

Azerothian custom only, excludes Draenei/Orcs and other alien settlers.

Location based, not race based.

Changes after a deeply altering and traumatic event to place births more effectively.

Provinces/Areas have been grouped into Geographical/Cultural locales for ease.

Some areas are not grouped, generally because of individual significance.

100% headcanon, feel free to make your own or disregard it completely!

Eastern Kingdoms

Quel’thalas - Primarily Blood Elf or former High Elf Population (Quel’danas, Eversong, Ghostlands)

Pre-Split: Newsong

Post-Split (Year 22 Onwards): Ashfall

Lordaeron - Formerly Human Population (Tirisfal Glades, Silverpine, Hillsbrad, Alterac, East/West Plaguelands)

Pre-Murder of Terenas: Woods

Post-Murder of Terenas (Year 3 Onwards): Graves

Gilneas - Primarily Worgen or former Human Population

Pre-Curse: Hedge

Post-Curse (Year 28 Onwards): Thorn

Steeplands - Primarily Wildhammer and some Human Population (Hinterlands, Arathi/Twilight Highlands)

Wildhammer: Stoneshell

Human: Moor

Fenfields - Primarily Ironforge Population (Wetlands, Loch Modan)

Peatfoot

Dun Morogh - Primarily Ironforge Population

Fettlebrass

Scorchcrags - Primarily Dark Iron Population (Badlands, Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge)

Brimglare

Riverpaths - Diverse Population (Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Darkshire, Redridge Mountains)

Brooks

Kalimdor

Eventides - Primarily Night Elf or former Highborne Population (Teldrassil, Azuremyst/Bloodmyst Isle, Darkshore)

Pre-Burning: Silentgrove

Post-Burning (Year 33 Onwards, presuming re-establishment): Bravebloom

Moonglade - Primarily Night Elf Population

Softseed

Nightdales - Primarily Night Elf Population (Winterspring, Azshara)

Brightspring

Shadewealds - Primarily Night Elf Population (Felwood, Mount Hyjal, Ashenvale)

Shrubroot

Thicketwilds - Primarily Night Elf or former Highborne Population (Stonetalon Mountains, Desolace, Feralas)

Night Elf: Hardvine

Highborne: Sproutgem

Broken Isles

Azsuna - Primarily Highborne Population

Leyshard

Val’sharah - Primarily Night Elf Population

Meadowdew

Suramar - Primarily Nightborne or former Highborne Population

Pre-Sundering Suramar (Year -13,500~ to Year -10,000): Silverset

Pre-Rebellion Post-Sundering Suramar City (Year -10,000 to Year 32): Willowseve

which name(s) you know gives you different powers over them.

there are Rules but you mostly have to figure them out for yourself.

getting the Rules wrong or breaking them can cost you more than you ever even knew you had.

Maximum Horny at all times

be careful what you wish for or you just might get it

Gift Of Prophecy

and the fact that before all of that this massive skeleton was tiny toddler (was he scared of the dark? did he squabble with his siblings? did he have siblings?) who may or may not have hid behind his mother or probably got hoisted onto an adult’s shoulders and in his little mind thought this person was the strongest human in the world and that he could hold the whole sky up just by standing there like that and as long as he was up there he was king of the world or could be.

At Wells Cathedral in England the stairs down from the chapter house have had dips worn into their stone by centuries of human feet taking the most direct route up and down. 

I was like, “Wow a real life papyrus!”

Oh there is so much humanity reaching out to us to take us by the hands and say