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Is there a standard style for writing chapter notes in a non-fiction book...
I am trying to find a standard style for writing chapter notes in a non-academic non-fiction book as per the image below. Is there an online resource where I can find an appropriate style guide for this?
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I am currently working on finishing up a thesis about my research in the field of biochemistry. The text that I am using to describe the figures is italicized. My question is: when I am trying to...
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I'm trying to figure out the correct formatting for multiple supers for the intro of my film. I imagine four separate superimposed lines, one appears, then fades away, until they are finished. How do I...
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I'm trying to figure out the best way to show a projector showing clips like key events over a lifetime. I'm thinking a montage with some dialogue, but I'm not certain that's the correct way.
View ArticleUsing font to highlight a god's speech in dialogue
At one point in my story, the characters are addressed by a god. In the ensuing dialogue, this god has a more archaic way of speaking, but even so, I'm wondering if it might be a good idea to visually...
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Hidden image in a regular text block
Is there a technique or any example of embedding some shape into an otherwise normal block of prose text, e.g. page in a book? This would probably be a type of Calligram.It could look like something...
View ArticleHow do you handle "mid-word pauses" during dialogues in novels?
How do you handle "mid-word pauses" during dialogues in novels?I rarely see it being done in novels, so I am not sure what are the various ways to format it. Could you tell me the most popular or...
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I’m editing a first person story and I’m a bit stumped on one thing in particular. I’m not sure how to explain this in a non-confusing way.Is it okay or correct to mix the dialogue and actions of one...
View ArticleHow does one put text messages in a novel?
I want to add sections within my novel where multiple characters are sending text messages to each other, but don't how to format it or if there's a certain way of doing it. For example, would I do it...
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I wrote two versions of the last paragraph for my scene (I included additional context since it also has an em dash). I need help deciding if the second version has too many em dashes and if I should...
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I'm writing a screenplay with a scene were characters interrupt each other frequently. I think including the lines a character would've said if they weren't interrupted could help the actors and...
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I'm writing a screenplay and in it there are two different scenes that take place in the same place and with one immediately after the other both chronologically and in the script. I want to separate...
View ArticleSpacing around (and types of) dashes in American English
I'm not a native English speaker, and the way American English texts typically use em-dashes without spaces to separate sentence parts seems very strange and even disruptive for me. For example:"Some...
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Is it acceptable to write dialogue in a book in screenplay format? (writing the name of the speaker and a colon, followed by the text)
View ArticleWhy is Scrivener using the "First pages" setting for the entire manuscript?
I have a 'project format' template I've been using for a long time that shows a different header for the Front Matter, then starts the manuscript at Chapter 1 with the project title/page 1 etc in the...
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Scrivener, footnotes are missing/misformated when compiling to PDF (Windows...
I'm creating a novel in Scrivener 3.0 that makes heavy use of footnotes. In recent compile tests on a chapter, I'm finding that on one page the footnotes are being displayed laid on top of the text at...
View ArticleShould I write the 'after'?
Alright, so I just finished a really beautiful scene in my manuscript that happened during an event. Let's say it was a party.So the beautiful scene happened rather in the beginning of the event, with...
View ArticleHow do I use an image as an epigraph?
There is a "picture that paints a thousand words" that I would like to use in the frontmatter of a book, similar to an epigraph. What is the proper way to lay out the page? Should it have a title?...
View ArticleCan my narrator's thoughts be in the same paragraph as another character's...
I'm writing a scene where my narrator (character A) is listening and reacting internally to character B, who is giving a long-winded explanation of something. Though is is a problem I run into...
View ArticleHow to deal with footnotes in cited sections?
When citing a section from another work, and that cited section has a footnote, how would you go about including the footnote in your citation?Should I turn the footnote of the cited section into a...
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