Standard Manuscript Format in Word and Scrivener

If you're submitting your manuscript anywhere, you're probably going to need to put it in standard manuscript format. Today, I walk you through setting up your manuscript in Microsoft Word and Scrivener and share tips for creating templates to make your life easier.
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Thank you!

[@l.e.brentwood3137]

Wonderful information! Thank you❤

[@shannonmackinnon8262]

Thank you so much Julie! This was extremely helpful. Thank you!

[@outcast-tk3gv]

hey Julie, how would I format a poetry passage in a fiction book manuscript?

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That depends on whether it's poetry you've written or poetry you're using (with permission and attribution) from another poet and how long the excerpt is. If it's more than a couple of lines (i.e. a whole stanza or a couple of stanzas), you'll want to offset it from the text in some way, typically single-spaced and indented. If you're just using a line or two, you can just use quotations as you would with dialogue, but use a / to mark line breaks.
A short example: I read her a line from my favorite poem, really going for it when I got to "Thou art more lovely and more temperate: / Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, /
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date."
A longer example (imagine the poem being a bit more indented than the text and maybe also italicized--the comment editor won't let me do that...):
I read her my favorite poem, hoping it would convince her how much I loved her.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

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@@coachjulieartz thank you so much that helps a lot!