Lars Eighner's Homepage Writers' Workshop Examples

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{05}   {*More book editors prefer page numbers in the center.  This
{06}   is especially good for story collections or nonfiction works
{07}   that may be rearranged before publication.  If the manuscript
{08}   goes to the typesetters, the pages are numbered in the upper
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{22}          10. Chapter Title or Just the Number if Untitled
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{24}  {Skip a double space.}
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{26}          Chapter format is rather like the first page of a short
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{28}     story.  Chapters always begin on a new page.  The chapter
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{30}     title or just the number goes a third of the way down the
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{32}     page.  Of course you do not use a byline with the chapters
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{34}     of your novel unless part of the fiction is that the parts
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{36}     are written by various characters.  In the manuscript, the
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{38}     first pages of chapters are numbered although in some
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{40}     finished works the page numbers do not appear on the first
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{42}     page of a chapter ("blind folio") or the page number is put
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{44}     at the bottom ("drop folio").
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{46}          Don't confuse the slug line in the upper left with the
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{48}     running heads that may appear in the finished work.  The
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{50}     book designer will specify these if they are part of the
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{52}     design.  Likewise, make it easy for the book designer to
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{54}     specify the style of the chapter titles by putting them in
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{56}     the same font you use for the body text.  Don't put titles
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{58}     in boldface or larger sizes.  Simply use initial capitals
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{60}     for the first, last, and important words.  The book designer
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