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To indent or not to indent... here's a link passed around during a recent batch of discussions by my writing group. Maybe this could be as contentious as the double space between sentences issues! Ha ha!
:-)
Writing Books: Formatting Text, manuscript format, indenting first paragraph
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
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As with anything else in formatting, there's only one rule: follow the house's style sheet or submission guidelines. If anything remains unclear, use your own preference because it probably doesn't matter!
ReplyDeleteCertainly here in Oz the preference seems to be for the flush left margin after a scene or chapter break, but no one has a ruler long enough to reach through cyberspace and rap your knuckles if you don't!
I just flicked through a few new novels and all except one published in Canada, had the flush right, no indent, at the start of chapters.
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