Andrew Nonymous Your Manuscript Should Have Your Address and Contact Details On The Title Page Only. If You Have An Agent, Your Agent's Address Can Be Included Beneath. 700 Words

Andrew Nonymous 700 words.
Your manuscript should

have your address
and contact details
on the title page only.
If you have an agent, your

agent's address can be
included beneath.
NOVEL STANDARD MANUSCRIPT FORMAT
by A. Nonymous
Surname / TITLE / 1
Part One: Part Folder Title Goes Here
Chapter One
Chapter Folder Title Goes Here
Standard manuscript format is often required for novels
so that work can easily be read by editors. It allows editors
to estimate word count and determine roughly how many pages
will be required to produce a book using the page size, style
and font used by their house. This PDF file was generated
using Scrivener's Compile feature and was created using the
"Novel" project template.
Manuscripts for full-length novels require a separate
title page. The author's name, address, telephone number and
e-mail address should be shown in the upper-left corner of the
title page, single-spaced. The title of the story should
appear in all-caps about half-way down the page. The author's
name follows the title on the by-line as the author wants it

Surname / TITLE / 2
to appear when published. A real name or pseudonym may be used
and may include initials, actual given name or professional
designation.
Surname / TITLE / 3
Chapter Two
Another Chapter Folder
All text should be double-spaced and left-justified with
a ragged right margin. Paragraphs should be indented by about
five spaces (half an inch) and not separated by an additional
blank line. (It used to be traditional to separate each
sentence with two spaces, but in these days of word processors
this is now less common.) A 12-point font such as Courier,
Times New Roman or Arial should be used throughout. In
Scrivener, however, you can write using any font and
formatting you choose - the "Formatting" pane of the Compile
sheet can be used to change the formatting in the compiled
document. In the "Novel" project template, the Compile
settings will deal with changing the font and formatting to
those required for standard manuscript format.
Top, bottom, left and right margins should all be

Surname / TITLE / 4
approximately one inch, not allowing for the page header. Each
page except for the title page should include a header
comprising the author's real surname, the title of the work
(or a key word from the title) in capitals, and the page
number. In Scrivener, all of this is handled in the "Page
Settings" pane of the Compile sheet.
Scene breaks are indicated with the hash character. Do
not simply add an extra line space as this can be missed by
the typesetter. The "Separators" pane of Scrivener's Compile
sheet can handle this for you if you are writing each scene as
a separate text document.
Indicate italics by underlining. In Scrivener, you can
use italics and set them to be converted to underlines upon
export or print by using "Convert italics to underlines in the
"Transformations" pane of the Compile sheet.

Surname / TITLE / 5
Part Two: Another Part Folder
Chapter Three
Chapter Folder Title
Begin each new chapter on a new page like this with the
chapter number about a third of the way down the page. In
Scrivener, this can all be dealt with in the Compile settings.
The "Separators" pane of the Compile sheet can be set to start
a new page for each chapter folder, and the "Formatting" pane
can be used to add page padding at the top of the new page and
insert the chapter number (the latter using the "Level
Settings"). All of this has already been done for you in the
"Novel" project template.
Although it is often said that writers should not use the
word-count features of their computers to determine the number
of words in a manuscript, most publishers and editors will
happily accept a word processor word count these days. In

Surname / TITLE / 6
Scrivener, you can insert a word count of your manuscript by
using Edit > Insert > Draft Word Count (for a manuscript, you
may wish to have the word count rounded to the nearest 100, in
which case select Edit > Insert > Draft Word Count > Rounded
To Nearest 100--this feature is used on the title page of this
manuscript, in fact). Note that the actual word count will not
be inserted, but a tag that will be substituted for the word
count upon export. In reality, the formatting of a manuscript
is often only really crucial when submitting directly to a
publisher--first time novelists will usually submit to an
agent first, and agents are often less picky about format and
will point you in the right direction before submitting your
work to a publisher.
Much of the information contained in this document is
based on a description of novel manuscript format by Matt
Carless for the BBC Writers' Room website: http://
www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom
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Your manuscript should

If you have an agent, your

NOVEL STANDARD MANUSCRIPT FORMAT

Part One: Part Folder Title Goes Here

Chapter Folder Title Goes Here

Standard manuscript format is often required for novels

so that work can easily be read by editors. It allows editors

to estimate word count and determine roughly how many pages

will be required to produce a book using the page size, style

using Scrivener's Compile feature and was created using the

"Novel" project template.

Manuscripts for full-length novels require a separate

title page. The author's name, address, telephone number and

e-mail address should be shown in the upper-left corner of the

title page, single-spaced. The title of the story should

appear in all-caps about half-way down the page. The author's

name follows the title on the by-line as the author wants it

to appear when published. A real name or pseudonym may be used

and may include initials, actual given name or professional

Another Chapter Folder

All text should be double-spaced and left-justified with

a ragged right margin. Paragraphs should be indented by about

five spaces (half an inch) and not separated by an additional

blank line. (It used to be traditional to separate each

sentence with two spaces, but in these days of word processors

this is now less common.) A 12-point font such as Courier,

Times New Roman or Arial should be used throughout. In

Scrivener, however, you can write using any font and

formatting you choose - the "Formatting" pane of the Compile

sheet can be used to change the formatting in the compiled

document. In the "Novel" project template, the Compile

settings will deal with changing the font and formatting to

those required for standard manuscript format.

Top, bottom, left and right margins should all be

page except for the title page should include a header

comprising the author's real surname, the title of the work

number. In Scrivener, all of this is handled in the "Page

Settings" pane of the Compile sheet.

Scene breaks are indicated with the hash character. Do

not simply add an extra line space as this can be missed by

the typesetter. The "Separators" pane of Scrivener's Compile

a separate text document.

Indicate italics by underlining. In Scrivener, you can

use italics and set them to be converted to underlines upon

export or print by using "Convert italics to underlines in the

"Transformations" pane of the Compile sheet.

Part Two: Another Part Folder

Chapter Folder Title

chapter number about a third of the way down the page. In

Scrivener, this can all be dealt with in the Compile settings.

The "Separators" pane of the Compile sheet can be set to start

insert the chapter number (the latter using the "Level

"Novel" project template.

Although it is often said that writers should not use the

word-count features of their computers to determine the number

of words in a manuscript, most publishers and editors will

happily accept a word processor word count these days. In