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Use page breaks.\nFor easier navigation, with your Monster Novel In Parts, us a section break between parts.\nGeneral notes:  boring serif font (unless specified otherwise) like Times New Roman 12, double-spaced, your name and book name on every page, page numbers.\nLet’s get started:  Your title and by-line go at the center of the title page\nIn Case It’s Part of  a Series This is Series Title, Book (Number):\nComplete Book Title\nby\nYour Chosen WriterName\nIf you have show paragraph markers on, see section break here:\nIf the publisher WANTS a table of contents, use your word processor’s feature to make one. In Word, this feature is under “References.” You likely don’t need this! Put some space at the top like this:\nContents\n\u0003\n\u0013 TOC \\o \"1-1\" \\h \\z \\t \"Heading 2,2,Heading 3,3,ChapterStage,1\" \u0014\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163298\" \u0014Contents\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163298 \\h \u0014i\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163299\" \u0014Prologue\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163299 \\h \u00141\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163300\" \u0014Chapter 1\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163300 \\h \u00142\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163301\" \u0014Chapter 2\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163301 \\h \u00143\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163302\" \u0014Chapter 100\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163302 \\h \u00144\u0015\u0015\n\u0013 HYPERLINK \\l \"_Toc107163303\" \u0014Epilogue\t\u0013 PAGEREF _Toc107163303 \\h \u00145\u0015\u0015\n\u0015\u0004\nNOTE: section break here again!\nSpace down about a third of the way, before starting a new chapter, or chapter-like thing\nPrologue\nA lot of editors and agents hate prologues. Who knows why? Not me. Do you? If you need it, though, you need it. Maybe keep it short and sweet? End with a page break, not a bunch of Enter keys, to get to the real first chapter.\u000f\nSet Chapter title a bit down, to fall at about a third of the way down the page.\nChapter 1\n(In Word, you can set up your table of contents to use whatever style you want to pick as your second-level heading. Handy for the “headings” panel.)\nNow it’s time to thrill the agent or editor with the fabulous content of your opening chapter.\nMany words go here. Many many words.\n“Many words???” she said.\n“You are using too much punctuation,” he replied.\n“That wasn’t a question, I was being sardonic,” she snapped.\n“Sarcastic you mean,” he muttered sarcastically.\n“Stop it with the adverbs.”\n“Nothing wrong with adverbs.”\nSwords flashed in the night.\nAttack!\nRiposte!\nRetreat!\nJust remember to end the chapter with a page break, so the reader will be willing to go to the next chapter. 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