Knowing how to format your manuscript is an important issue. Your editor needs to be able to get in there and poke around. The person who is going to format your novel or book does not want to have any extra work as she does the final formatting to change your work into various e-files and print on demand.
Many of you will get instructions on formatting at least as soon as the ink dries on
your contract.
Personally, the simple formatting of chapters in WORD hung me up for awhile. And I know my way around a WORD application.
Line spacing is double. Type one space
between sentences. Every chapter ends with a page break. Each chapter begins on a new page. All chapter headings should be uniform.
If you want to show that a scene changes within a chapter, use a row of three asterisks on an extra line, set on a line by themselves. An alternative style is to insert a blank line, but a reader can miss this extra line if it falls at the bottom of a page.
