Still undecided about NaNoWriMo? Let me help. What is NaNoWriMo? National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is a wild literary adventure…
Author Brandy I Timmons’ debut novel, Shadows of Colesbrooke, is now available for pre-order on Kindle. Shadows of Colesbrooke is…
Spell Check is a wonderful addition to word processors. It helps us catch spelling errors and mistypings. The squiggly red…
As a writer, you may or not be reading consistently. Some people claim to only like to ready between writing projects, others will read different genres than they’re writing, and some will continue to devour books like starving tyrannosaurus rexes.
The most essential part of a book, and what grabs the reader and traps them, is the story itself.
Awkward gaps, an abnormally large area of white space between text, are the bane of a typesetter’s existence. As part of preparing your manuscript to go to the printer, you need to ensure there aren’t any awkward gaps in your work.
Justified alignment and spacing can be a powerful look for your text, and hyphenation settings will help attain the word spacing that looks best.
Rivers are streaks of white space through several lines of text that can be distracting to the reader.
Line spacing, or leading, is the space between each line of text. It’s automatic in word processors, but that doesn’t…
Paragraph indentation should not be created by pressing Tab. They should be a result of paragraph formatting and attributes. This…