![]() Title page including the Screenplay Title, author, and info in lower right or left corner.Think of this as a script for a short film or one scene in a longer film. You may choose to your script for an animation or for live action. I'm staying with one space after periods unless some agent specifically says they want to in their manuscript formatting instructions (and most don't, they just say they want SMF).Your Treatment and Character Perspectives, write a 4-page (4 minute) script. between words, it would stick an extra space in.īleh. So every time I have a place in dialog where there's a. (3 periods) for ellipses instead of word's "auto ellipse" feature. The problem with using the global search to put an extra space after a period in my MS is I have all formatting turned off (venues that take e-mail submissions prefer no special word auto formatting features, as mail editors tend to mess them up, which is why I use - for m dashes, straight quotes and. It's probably somewhat down to what people are used to seeing. I've gotten used to not seeing things with the two spaces over the past few years, so I really notice it now when people use two. And it creates all these distracting white "rivers" that weave through the text. See, I think two spaces looks bad with a self-adjusting font. I've gone back and forth, but two spaces looks SOOOOOOO much better, imo. I don't think anyone is going to make a decision based on how many spaces you use. If you want to go from one to two spaces after a period it takes only a few seconds with a global search and replace (though check if you had any abbreviations in the text-you wouldn't want two periods after etc.). I guess I could have gone all caps for moi. There was only one instance, so I just went with it. I have done something like: " Avec moi ?" but it is probably not right. I've never known what to do about emphasizing certain words if spoken in a foreign language. ![]() Regarding emphasizing certain words of dialogue, it is acceptable to use italics or underline-but not both- in one manuscript. I think I mentioned elsewhere that a publisher wanted the submission in RTF format which deleted my headers, which meant I had to type it at the top of every page (I did a paste with automated page numbers, but I still had to find the right place to put it-after changing top margin). On every page that doesn't have my name and title already on it (which would be only the title page, typically). Goelz/RightfulQueen/3 <-all flush left, in the header. I hope it's correct, because I gave up two spacing at least a couple of years ago, and there's no way I'm going back and manually inserting an extra space at the end of every sentence in my ms! But she also says to use 2 spaces at the end of each sentence, I've I've heard that the old two space rule they taught us back in high school/college is really out of favor now and will label you as a hopeless old fogey, so I guess everyone has their preferences. says never underline but to use italics, and her post on this is only 2 years old. Mind you, I think the info there about underlining is dated. Argh! There's so much confusing and strange information on the web. Never seen it called a slug line before, and then the blog by the writer about using them the way they are in scripts. For some reason, that hit didn't come up for me when I googled "slug lines in novel manuscripts." I guess I was just sort of thinking of that set up as a standard header. The more I learn, the more work setting up a manuscript seems to meĬool, thanks. ![]() I always assumed that novel headers (aside from the title page) were supposed to have something like this at the top of each page: Does anyone have any experience with this, because it's the first time I've encountered the term. be as evident to them as to the reader (since slug lines don't appear in published books, unless they use the technique for having chapter headings with location and time in them). ![]() Shouldn't the location of the scene/time of day etc. So does this mean you must include location information in the headers? This would suggest that you need to set up a separate header for each scene in your novel, which sounds like a lot of work. of a scene, and this blog also discusses their use in manuscripts (in the header, I assume, since the Author Author blog said to put the slug line there). I've never heard the term "slug line" before, so I googled it and got a lot of hits about their being something used in script writing to denote the location, time of day etc. The page number should appear in the slug line, not anywhere else on the page." "( Each page of the manuscript (other than the title page) should have a standard slug line in the header. Most of the instructions were as expected, but this line caught my attention: I was reading an agent's blog about manuscript submission.
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