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Many new writers are confused about how to format their manuscript. Many of these issues arise from mixing the conventions for non-fiction, such as essays, with that of fiction. So here are a few guidelines: Indent each new paragraph Each new paragraph should be indented by about a half a centimetre, with the exception of…

Just in case you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, it’s an annual writing project that takes place every November, in which amateur writers (who knows, possibly some professional ones as well) attempt to write 50,000 in a single month. It stands for National Novel Writing Month – though it’s really international these days. Just for…

So, you’ve finished your book. The hard part is over, right? Wrong. Now you have to convince some hard-nosed literary agent that your novel is going to be the next bestseller and is exactly what the market is looking for right now. Well, okay, maybe you don’t have to go quite that far, but too…