Name of Setting Location Role in Story: Related Characters: Season: Unique Features: Description: Sights: Sounds: Smell: Notes: Character Name Age • Location Role in Story: Goal: Physical Description: Personality: Occupation: Habits/Mannerisms: Background: Internal Conflicts: External Conflicts: Notes: They swarmed over the fallen tree, each to their task with practiced efficiency. Two used a double-ended saw — in other contexts it would be called a “two-man saw” — to cut the trunk into neat sections. Another used loppers on the branches, and fence repairs started as soon as there was space to work. The new moon combined with cloud cover and the canopy of trees to give near-darkness, and their tools were selected for near-silence. There was nothing humans would consider conversation, only muttered commands: Forward, back, up, down, left, right, along with a very specific grunt that translated to, “The other left, you idiot.” In eight minutes they were done. Everything and everyone was in the rubber-tired wagon, the robotic engine headed back into the compound. As if they’d never been. Insert dedication here. Feel free to delete this document if you don’t need it. Mug in hand, Jake frowned out the kitchen window. Eventually he said, “Did something change out there? The light’s different. Or something.” Mrs. Miller put down her rolling pin and walked over to stand beside him. “A tree came down in the storm yesterday, just there.” She pointed. “It broke the fence.” “What?” She shook her head. “Not the fence-fence. The decorative fence, the split rail. Looks like they fixed it last night and cleaned everything up. It was a good sized tree.” “Efficient little buggers,” Jake said. He ignored the older woman’s frown. “Guess I should be used to it.” “I’d call them industrious,” she said. “By the way, Nancy asked me to remind you about the tennis court?” “Hmm?” he muttered. Mrs. Miller sighed. “She suggested converting the tennis court into pickleball courts. She thinks it would get more use. We talked about this a month ago.” “Oh, yeah. Has anyone ever used that tennis court? Beyond kids goofing around, I mean.” She shook her head. “Not in my lifetime. According to my mother, your grandmother played exactly two games before she decided she hated tennis.” She tilted your head, remembering. “Your father once decided it was silly to maintain it, year in and year out, and asked them to make it into lawn. They told him there’s more than a foot of hard-packed gravel under the clay, all of which would have to be dug out and hauled away, replaced with topsoil. And by then it was too visible from the road for them to do the work, so he’d have to hire humans. He decided to keep the tennis court.” “So for forty or fifty years they’ve raked it and repainted the lines — what, every week? New nets every year?” “At least,” she said. “I imagine they check it over every night, clean up the leaves and such.” “What a waste,” Jake said. “Well, they don’t do things by halves. Nancy said there are some groups at church who would enjoy pickleball. The conversion would be straightforward. Just new nets and lines, no changes to the structure of the court itself.” He shrugged. “Whatever. It would mean more people hanging around here, but I suppose it should be used.” “If you agree, Steward” — she hit the title hard — “you need to tell them.” “Oh. Remind me later today, would you?” He put his mug down on the edge of the counter, and the housekeeper caught it as it fell. “I’m going to take a walk.” As he headed to the door she said, “There’s a Rotary meeting this morning at eleven.” He paused. “Is it important?” She sniffed. “I don’t believe it’s anything special, but you’ve skipped the last two.” “Shoot.” He looked at the kitchen clock. 10:15. The restaurant was a twenty minute drive, and he’d need to shave, shower, and put on nice clothes. Without further comment he drifted out the door, across the lawn, disappearing into the woods. Grace Miller shook her head. Then she rinsed the mug and put it into the dishwasher. And finally got back to her rolling pin. Character Name Age • Location Role in Story: Goal: Physical Description: Personality: Occupation: Habits/Mannerisms: Background: Internal Conflicts: External Conflicts: Notes: Character Name Age • Location Role in Story: Goal: Physical Description: Personality: Occupation: Habits/Mannerisms: Background: Internal Conflicts: External Conflicts: Notes: Title page to the manuscript. tim Your address Your phone number Your e-mail address (Your agent’s name) (Your agent’s address) <$wc100> words. <$PROJECTTITLE> by <$fullname> This is the title page of the manuscript. Note that its “Section Type” is automatically set to “Front Matter” in the metadata tab of the inspector, allowing the title page to be formatted differently from body text during compile. The <$PROJECTTITLE> and <$fullname> tags get replaced with metadata information you can set when compiling. Other information is taken from the Author Information settings in File > Options… when the project is created. The <$wc100> words tag will be replaced with the word count rounded to the nearest 100 during compile (this and other tags can be inserted from the Insert menu). Feel free to edit the text of the title page as required. Maybe, Jake thought as he looked at his front window, I need more male friends. He reflected on this for a moment, and then amended it to, Or at least fewer female friends. A moment later Nancy Miller blew through his front door. “Hi, hi,” she said, leaning up to give him a quick kiss. “Mom said you were okay with the pickleball thing. Now we have to decide what court configuration you want.” She held up four sketches, fanned out like a giant poker hand. “Given the size of our tennis court, we could do one, two, three, or four pickleball courts.” “Umm…” he said. Nancy grinned. “You don’t care, do you?” He shook his head, and she went on, “Then we’ll do two. One would be dumb because, part of the reason pickleball was invented was to get more use out of court space. Four would mean a whole lot of people could play at much, which would annoy you. Three is… well, just kinda dumb. So two it is. I’ll email you this.” She took her phone out of her jeans pocket and her thumbs flew. “You’ll tell them? Some people at church are organizing things for this summer and I’d like to include this.” “Yeah,” he said. “I’ll forward it later today.” She rolled her eyes. “I’ll text you later to remind you. Please do it?” “Of course, Nancy.” She laughed and hugged him. “Thanks. Also…” Your dedication here. Feel free to delete this document if you don’t need it. Character Name Age • Location Role in Story: Goal: Physical Description: Personality: Occupation: Habits/Mannerisms: Background: Internal Conflicts: External Conflicts: Notes: Note that in the “Metadata” pane of the Inspector, under “Section Type”, the “Default Subdocument Type” is set to “Front Matter”. This setting causes all subdocuments of this folder to use the “Front Matter” section type by default (that is, when “Structure-Based” is selected as the section type). This saves us from having to manually assign the “Front Matter” section type for each document we place into this folder. During Compile, documents assigned the “Front Matter” section type will be laid out differently from documents in the main body of the manuscript. Copyright © <$year> <$author> All rights reserved. ISBN: ISBN-13: Feel free to delete this document if you don’t need it, or edit it for your needs. “Did Judge Snyder know about this?” He hesitated. He knew Mitch Snyder had been a beloved mentor of hers, and things could go very badly on this topic. Finally he said, “Yes, except my dad and my grandfather briefed him. Judge Snyder was appointed during the period they were both active. I don’t know exactly what they told him. Or how they told him.” The green eyes burned into him. “What aren’t you telling me? Better out than in, bud.” He sat for a long minute, and considered further stalls — maybe going to the bathroom or getting himself something to drink. She probably wouldn’t tolerate it. He said, “My father, and especially my grandfather, had a different style from me. Less… honest. It might be better to let the details be lost in history.” “Are you implying Judge Snyder was corrupt?” Her words bit. “No.” He shook his head. “I’m implying — saying — my grandfather was corrupt.” He closed his eyes and held up a hand. “Here’s what I know. When I turned eighteen my father briefed me on the steward’s job —”’s “I thought you didn’t start this until your father passed away? After we were out of college, when you were — what, twenty two?” “Twenty three, and yes, that’s true. But the normal process, the historic one, is that stewards overlap from the time the new one turns eighteen until the old one dies. We started down that road, but I… refused the job. After I learned some of the details about the job. The situation. It caused a lot of confusion.” She nodded. “Sorry I interrupted. Your father briefed you?” “Yeah. And he told me — he laughed about it…” Again he closed his eyes. “Quote, ‘If you ever have to deal with Mitch Snyder, just work the word Rossiter into the conversation.’” “Rossiter? Like the little town?” “Yes.” “The judge had a camp there. He liked to…” She waved a hand. “I don’t know. Chop wood, mow grass. Get away from people, I think.” “I don’t know what the significance of the word was,” he said. “My father just told me what I told you, and by that point I was feeling very sketchy about the whole thing, so I didn’t ask for details.” “Did you ever use it?” she asked. “Once, and I regretted it. A couple weeks after my dad died, when I was just accepting that I had to take this job, there was a crisis. A hunter trespassed on Folk land — walked past about a million signs — and…” Again he hesitated. “Somebody shot at him. Shot him, actually. The bullet clipped his arm.” “You think they shot him?” she asked. “Did that ever happen before?” “I’d rather not talk about historic things, bad things, that I don’t have first-hand knowledge of. But I’ll say one of my first changes as steward was to have some serious fences put up, and they’re not there to keep the Folk in.” “They protect us English?” She used the description some Amish used to describe non-Amish. He nodded. “Anyway, this guy complained to a sheriff’s deputy, who happened to be new to the area. That deputy wanted access to Folk land — which of course on paper looks like my land — and I refused. He went to Judge Snyder for a warrant.” “And you said, ‘Rossiter.’” Again he nodded. “It was the first time I’d ever met with him, and that word was kinda the first thing out of my mouth. Stupid. In retrospect, I think that was supposed to be some kind of nuclear option, break glass in case of emergency, but I was new on the job and kinda panicked.” “What did he do?” she asked. “Got very angry. Threw me out, and cited me for contempt. Fined me two hundred and fifty dollars. The citation said I’d been disrespectful, implied I’d cursed at him.” “Textbook contempt of court,” she said. He continued, “But then he did what I wanted. Denied the warrant. Said the hunter was trespassing and there was no crime committed. That it was within a landowner’s rights to defend their property against an armed intruder who’d been reasonably warned he was trespassing, and there was no reason to investigate further, no justification to poke around my property.” She considered. “That’s probably the right ruling. What he would have done anyway, if you’d reasoned with him rather than threatening him.” “Yes. Which is what I did after that, the couple times things ended up in front of him. And after we put up the fences, Judge Snyder became gracious to me. I think he appreciated the fact that I was actively protecting his constituents.” “So your theory is that your father, or your grandfather, blackmailed him? Maybe about something that happened at his camp? Or is your theory that they bribed him, paid for the camp?” “I don’t have a theory. I’ve told you everything I actually know, and I don’t want to speculate. Judge Snyder had a good reputation.” “Pristine,” she said. “And he deserved it.” She glanced at her left wrist, which was bare, and then up at the kitchen clock. “Four am. I should get home before the girls wake up and catch me sneaking in in my pajamas.” “Your husband doesn’t mind?” She shrugged. “We’re still trying to figure out this judge thing. He’ll raise an eyebrow” — she demonstrated — “when I’m grumpy tomorrow, but he understands.” Then she looked at him, her eyes widening. “Or did you mean he’d be jealous I’d spent the night with you?” She shook her head. “He understood from Day One that you were a factor in my life. Well, not Day One, because he was around first, but” — she waved a breezy hand — “whatever.” She stood, put the cookies away, and put her glass into the dishwasher. At the door she turned. “Thanks. I need to think about this, how to handle your little people —” “Not people,” he said. She frowned. “Not cattle, though. There’s a lot of established law regarding person hood —” “Kathy, they don’t want laws, not from Pennsylvania or the United States. They just want to be left alone.” Her chest inflated, a tirade building. But then she slowly released the breath. “Let me think, and then we’ll talk.” With a twiddle of her fingers she was out the door. Leave me alone Andrew Nonymous 700 words. Your manuscript should have your address and contact details on the title page only. If you have an agent, your agent's address can be included beneath. NOVEL STANDARD MANUSCRIPT FORMAT by Andrew Nonymous Nonymous / MANUSCRIPT FORMAT / 1 Chapter One Standard manuscript format is often required for novels so that work can easily be read by editors. It allows editors to estimate word count and determine roughly how many pages will be required to produce a book using the page size, style and font of their house. 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Nullam mollis dolor quis nisi congue, at maximus enim tempor. Vestibulum ut leo ac dui ornare malesuada. 6 CHAPTER THREE Madame Topiary Phasellus rutrum ex quis sagi is condimentum. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Ut hendrerit ante et vehicula vulputate. Nulla venenatis pretium nisl, quis ullamcorper mi condimentum a. Nam ultrices elit arcu, tincidunt aliquet risus tempor et. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam euismod porta tortor, non pretium justo tristique id. Nunc dignissim, metus at fringilla congue, diam sapien aliquet quam, sed eleifend nunc odio quis mi. In blandit nec dolor ullamcorper cursus. Maecenas in lorem sit amet lorem tempor tincidunt sit amet non ligula. Morbi ac rutrum urna. Pellentesque commodo mi vel congue scelerisque. Fusce a lorem sed urna dignissim pulvinar non in magna. Mauris blandit in nisl vitae scelerisque. Vestibulum sagi is felis et mauris euismod posuere. Curabitur in tellus sit amet lorem ornare pharetra. Vestibulum vel magna placerat, fermentum elit id, hendrerit libero. 7 Anton Mouse * * * Etiam ma is consectetur egestas. Etiam nec nunc ornare, blandit ex sit amet, feugiat ligula. Pellentesque bibendum placerat risus a semper. Pellentesque consequat faucibus pellentesque. Nullam in aliquet est. Ut imperdiet augue sed mauris molestie ultrices. Aliquam eros tellus, venenatis sit amet arcu et, placerat lacinia ex. Donec sollicitudin odio id urna semper, tempus maximus nibh sagi is. Cras lacinia orci ut vehicula molestie. Nulla facilisi. Aenean sodales ut neque sed sodales. Nulla pellentesque tincidunt ante, ut eleifend risus finibus eu. In quis luctus orci. Donec a lorem tristique, egestas dui nec, interdum augue. Aliquam imperdiet vestibulum ultricies. Suspendisse augue ante, tristique gravida dolor id, finibus volutpat nisl. Aenean dapibus sollicitudin est. Duis aliquam lacus nec velit lobortis, vitae pulvinar diam commodo. Suspendisse scelerisque purus nec nunc ornare rhoncus. Vivamus eu aliquet est. Maecenas cursus quis elit vel ornare. Fusce vitae nisi non purus pretium pellentesque nec imperdiet justo. Morbi dictum elementum felis non sollicitudin. Ut in turpis varius, suscipit magna non, cursus mi. Suspendisse sem nunc, facilisis eu scelerisque at, tincidunt id nulla. Ut condimentum orci et erat venenatis varius. Vestibulum dapibus, mauris eu rhoncus elementum, ante purus ultrices est, id ultricies metus tellus vel tortor. Nam euismod pharetra faucibus. Praesent scelerisque fermentum tortor, bibendum ornare turpis posuere nec. Curabitur in odio eu massa condimentum tincidunt. Pellentesque dapibus metus tellus, quis porta lectus feugiat in. In ac imperdiet elit. In risus est, rhoncus eget vehicula id, feugiat at ipsum. Morbi pulvinar dolor quis 8 My Great Novel nisi tincidunt vulputate ut id felis. Maecenas sed nisi laoreet purus consectetur semper at eget nulla. Donec faucibus velit tortor, eget venenatis eros laoreet vel. Duis non lacus metus. Donec suscipit sodales velit nec lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed semper vel purus ac feugiat. Praesent arcu nulla, por itor vitae leo id, convallis molestie sem. Proin molestie, tellus eget volutpat egestas, diam lorem dictum massa, lobortis egestas leo massa convallis enim. Morbi feugiat quam non ornare bibendum. Praesent mollis vitae leo a sodales. Nullam mollis dolor quis nisi congue, at maximus enim tempor. Vestibulum ut leo ac dui ornare malesuada. 9 CHAPTER FOUR Muddlemarch Morbi ac rutrum urna. Pellentesque commodo mi vel congue scelerisque. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam euismod porta tortor, non pretium justo tristique id. Nunc dignissim, metus at fringilla congue, diam sapien aliquet quam, sed eleifend nunc odio quis mi. In blandit nec dolor ullamcorper cursus. Maecenas in lorem sit amet lorem tempor tincidunt sit amet non ligula. Phasellus rutrum ex quis sagi is condimentum. Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Ut hendrerit ante et vehicula vulputate. Nulla venenatis pretium nisl, quis ullamcorper mi condimentum a. Nam ultrices elit arcu, tincidunt aliquet risus tempor et. Fusce a lorem sed urna dignissim pulvinar non in magna. Mauris blandit in nisl vitae scelerisque. Vestibulum sagi is felis et mauris euismod posuere. Curabitur in tellus sit amet lorem ornare pharetra. Vestibulum vel magna placerat, 10 My Great Novel fermentum elit id, hendrerit libero. Etiam ma is consectetur egestas. Etiam nec nunc ornare, blandit ex sit amet, feugiat ligula. Pellentesque bibendum placerat risus a semper. Pellentesque consequat faucibus pellentesque. Nullam in aliquet est. Ut imperdiet augue sed mauris molestie ultrices. Aliquam eros tellus, venenatis sit amet arcu et, placerat lacinia ex. Donec sollicitudin odio id urna semper, tempus maximus nibh sagi is. Cras lacinia orci ut vehicula molestie. Nulla facilisi. Aenean sodales ut neque sed sodales. Nulla pellentesque tincidunt ante, ut eleifend risus finibus eu. In quis luctus orci. Donec a lorem tristique, egestas dui nec, interdum augue. Aliquam imperdiet vestibulum ultricies. Suspendisse augue ante, tristique gravida dolor id, finibus volutpat nisl. Aenean dapibus sollicitudin est. Duis aliquam lacus nec velit lobortis, vitae pulvinar diam commodo. Suspendisse scelerisque purus nec nunc ornare rhoncus. Vivamus eu aliquet est. Maecenas cursus quis elit vel ornare. Fusce vitae nisi non purus pretium pellentesque nec imperdiet justo. Morbi dictum elementum felis non sollicitudin. Ut in turpis varius, suscipit magna non, cursus mi. Suspendisse sem nunc, facilisis eu scelerisque at, tincidunt id nulla. Ut condimentum orci et erat venenatis varius. Vestibulum dapibus, mauris eu rhoncus elementum, ante purus ultrices est, id ultricies metus tellus vel tortor. Nam euismod pharetra faucibus. Praesent scelerisque fermentum tortor, bibendum ornare turpis posuere nec. Curabitur in odio eu massa condimentum tincidunt. Pellentesque dapibus metus tellus, quis porta lectus feugiat 11 Anton Mouse in. In ac imperdiet elit. In risus est, rhoncus eget vehicula id, feugiat at ipsum. Morbi pulvinar dolor quis nisi tincidunt vulputate ut id felis. Maecenas sed nisi laoreet purus consectetur semper at eget nulla. Donec faucibus velit tortor, eget venenatis eros laoreet vel. Duis non lacus metus. Donec suscipit sodales velit nec lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed semper vel purus ac feugiat. Praesent arcu nulla, por itor vitae leo id, convallis molestie sem. Proin molestie, tellus eget volutpat egestas, diam lorem dictum massa, lobortis egestas leo massa convallis enim. Morbi feugiat quam non ornare bibendum. Praesent mollis vitae leo a sodales. Nullam mollis dolor quis nisi congue, at maximus enim tempor. Vestibulum ut leo ac dui ornare malesuada. 12 CHAPTER FIVE Do Sheep Dream of Woolly Androids? Class aptent taciti sociosqu ad litora torquent per conubia nostra, per inceptos himenaeos. Ut hendrerit ante et vehicula vulputate. Nulla venenatis pretium nisl, quis ullamcorper mi condimentum a. Nam ultrices elit arcu, tincidunt aliquet risus tempor et. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Aliquam euismod porta tortor, non pretium justo tristique id. Nunc dignissim, metus at fringilla congue, diam sapien aliquet quam, sed eleifend nunc odio quis mi. In blandit nec dolor ullamcorper cursus. Maecenas in lorem sit amet lorem tempor tincidunt sit amet non ligula. Phasellus rutrum ex quis sagi is condimentum. Morbi ac rutrum urna. Pellentesque commodo mi vel congue scelerisque. Fusce a lorem sed urna dignissim pulvinar non in magna. Mauris blandit in nisl vitae scelerisque. Vestibulum sagi is felis et mauris euismod posuere. Curabitur in tellus sit amet 13 Anton Mouse lorem ornare pharetra. Vestibulum vel magna placerat, fermentum elit id, hendrerit libero. Etiam ma is consectetur egestas. Etiam nec nunc ornare, blandit ex sit amet, feugiat ligula. Pellentesque bibendum placerat risus a semper. Pellentesque consequat faucibus pellentesque. Nullam in aliquet est. Ut imperdiet augue sed mauris molestie ultrices. Aliquam eros tellus, venenatis sit amet arcu et, placerat lacinia ex. Donec sollicitudin odio id urna semper, tempus maximus nibh sagi is. Cras lacinia orci ut vehicula molestie. Nulla facilisi. Aenean sodales ut neque sed sodales. Nulla pellentesque tincidunt ante, ut eleifend risus finibus eu. In quis luctus orci. Donec a lorem tristique, egestas dui nec, interdum augue. Aliquam imperdiet vestibulum ultricies. Suspendisse augue ante, tristique gravida dolor id, finibus volutpat nisl. Aenean dapibus sollicitudin est. Duis aliquam lacus nec velit lobortis, vitae pulvinar diam commodo. Suspendisse scelerisque purus nec nunc ornare rhoncus. Vivamus eu aliquet est. Maecenas cursus quis elit vel ornare. Fusce vitae nisi non purus pretium pellentesque nec imperdiet justo. Morbi dictum elementum felis non sollicitudin. Ut in turpis varius, suscipit magna non, cursus mi. Suspendisse sem nunc, facilisis eu scelerisque at, tincidunt id nulla. Ut condimentum orci et erat venenatis varius. Vestibulum dapibus, mauris eu rhoncus elementum, ante purus ultrices est, id ultricies metus tellus vel tortor. Nam euismod pharetra faucibus. Praesent scelerisque fermentum tortor, bibendum ornare turpis posuere nec. Curabitur in odio eu massa condimentum tincidunt. 14 My Great Novel Pellentesque dapibus metus tellus, quis porta lectus feugiat in. In ac imperdiet elit. In risus est, rhoncus eget vehicula id, feugiat at ipsum. Morbi pulvinar dolor quis nisi tincidunt vulputate ut id felis. Maecenas sed nisi laoreet purus consectetur semper at eget nulla. Donec faucibus velit tortor, eget venenatis eros laoreet vel. Duis non lacus metus. Donec suscipit sodales velit nec lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed semper vel purus ac feugiat. Praesent arcu nulla, por itor vitae leo id, convallis molestie sem. Proin molestie, tellus eget volutpat egestas, diam lorem dictum massa, lobortis egestas leo massa convallis enim. Morbi feugiat quam non ornare bibendum. Praesent mollis vitae leo a sodales. Nullam mollis dolor quis nisi congue, at maximus enim tempor. Vestibulum ut leo ac dui ornare malesuada. 15 CHAPTER SIX The Unbearable Lightness of Punning Ut in turpis varius, suscipit magna non, cursus mi. Suspendisse sem nunc, facilisis eu scelerisque at, tincidunt id nulla. Ut condimentum orci et erat venenatis varius. Vestibulum dapibus, mauris eu rhoncus elementum, ante purus ultrices est, id ultricies metus tellus vel tortor. Morbi ac rutrum urna. Pellentesque commodo mi vel congue scelerisque. Fusce a lorem sed urna dignissim pulvinar non in magna. Mauris blandit in nisl vitae scelerisque. Vestibulum sagi is felis et mauris euismod posuere. Curabitur in tellus sit amet lorem ornare pharetra. Vestibulum vel magna placerat, fermentum elit id, hendrerit libero. Etiam ma is consectetur egestas. Etiam nec nunc ornare, blandit ex sit amet, feugiat ligula. Pellentesque bibendum placerat risus a semper. Pellentesque consequat faucibus pellentesque. Nullam in aliquet est. Ut imperdiet augue sed mauris molestie ultrices. Aliquam eros tellus, venenatis sit amet arcu et, placerat 16 My Great Novel lacinia ex. Donec sollicitudin odio id urna semper, tempus maximus nibh sagi is. Cras lacinia orci ut vehicula molestie. Nulla facilisi. Aenean sodales ut neque sed sodales. Nulla pellentesque tincidunt ante, ut eleifend risus finibus eu. In quis luctus orci. Donec a lorem tristique, egestas dui nec, interdum augue. Aliquam imperdiet vestibulum ultricies. Suspendisse augue ante, tristique gravida dolor id, finibus volutpat nisl. Aenean dapibus sollicitudin est. Duis aliquam lacus nec velit lobortis, vitae pulvinar diam commodo. Suspendisse scelerisque purus nec nunc ornare rhoncus. Vivamus eu aliquet est. Maecenas cursus quis elit vel ornare. Fusce vitae nisi non purus pretium pellentesque nec imperdiet justo. Morbi dictum elementum felis non sollicitudin. Nam euismod pharetra faucibus. Praesent scelerisque fermentum tortor, bibendum ornare turpis posuere nec. Curabitur in odio eu massa condimentum tincidunt. Pellentesque dapibus metus tellus, quis porta lectus feugiat in. In ac imperdiet elit. In risus est, rhoncus eget vehicula id, feugiat at ipsum. Morbi pulvinar dolor quis nisi tincidunt vulputate ut id felis. Maecenas sed nisi laoreet purus consectetur semper at eget nulla. Donec faucibus velit tortor, eget venenatis eros laoreet vel. Duis non lacus metus. Donec suscipit sodales velit nec lobortis. Aliquam erat volutpat. Sed semper vel purus ac feugiat. Praesent arcu nulla, por itor vitae leo id, convallis molestie sem. Proin molestie, tellus eget volutpat egestas, diam lorem dictum massa, lobortis egestas leo massa convallis enim. Morbi feugiat quam non ornare bibendum. Praesent mollis vitae leo a sodales. Nullam mollis dolor quis nisi congue, at 17 Anton Mouse maximus enim tempor. Vestibulum ut leo ac dui ornare malesuada. Maecenas in lorem sit amet lorem tempor tincidunt sit amet non ligula. Phasellus rutrum ex quis sagi is condimentum. 18 Character Name Age • Location Role in Story: Goal: Physical Description: Personality: Occupation: Habits/Mannerisms: Background: Internal Conflicts: External Conflicts: Notes: <$BLANK_PAGE> During compile, Scrivener will try to remove any unnecessary blank pages. The <$BLANK_PAGE> tag tells Scrivener to leave this page blank (the tag itself will be removed from the compiled document). Wolf’s eyes. That was the way Jake’s freshman roommate had described Kathy, “The girl with the wolf’s eyes,” and the description was never more applicable than now, with her green eyes shining through the window of the kitchen door. A moment later she was inside, pushing past him, talking a blue streak. “What kind of cookies does Mrs. Miller have?” she said as she opened the cabinet door and grabbed the canister. “I’m glad you’re awake.” “I wasn’t until you called.” “It’s your fault that I couldn’t sleep. Are these raisin filled, or apricot?” She bit into one and closed her eyes. “Raisin! I can’t believe you didn’t tell me, or better yet bring me some. These are my favorite.” She frowned. “Except maybe the lemon ones. Or those pecan squares.” She took another bite and, mouth full, asked, “How do you live here and not weigh four hundred pounds?” “I don’t eat the cookies.” “Yeah, well, more for me.” She looked him up and down, taking in his plain blue gym shorts and t-shirt. “Is that what you sleep in? Boring. At least you should have something on your shirt, a rock band or the Steelers or something.” “I’m more of a Pens and Pirates guy, but those logos are scratchy. Anyway, nobody sees me at night. And you’re one to talk. What are those, flannel jammies?” She looked down at herself. “Merino wool, I’ll have you know. It’s all the rage for women of a certain age because it’s temperature regulating.” She plucked at her shirt. “A little thin and clingy for going out in public, maybe, but you’re hardly public.” She crossed to a different cabinet, took out a glass, and then went to the refrigerator for a pitcher of milk. With another little moan, eyes closed, she said, “Whole milk! I’ve almost forgotten what it’s like. Tim’s cholesterol is borderline, so we only buy skim. It’s blue.” “I assume you want to follow up on today’s briefing,” he said. The wolf’s eyes flew open. “Duh! Big surprise, you wait two months after I’m sworn in, and then schedule a fifteen minute meeting to tell me there’s a challenge to the United States Constitution lurking in my county and ask me to ignore it.” “Your clerk would only give me fifteen minutes,” he said. “Well, maybe you should have told him more than, ‘a quick greeting from an old friend.’” “Sorry about that, but the whole point is that they want to stay off the radar. Everybody’s radar.” “So why tell me at all?” She carried the milk and cookies to the table and sat down. “No, I guess I get that: Because sooner or later something tangentially related is likely to come before my court.” He sat across from her. “Yeah. Although they haven’t for the last decade or so. It used to happen more often. Better you know up front.” NOVEL FORMAT About This Template By default, when compiled (File > Compile…), this project will generate a document in the standard manuscript format for novels. Settings are also provided to make it easy to compile to a paperback-style PDF for self-publishing or an ePub or Kindle ebook. How To Use This Template Inside the “Manuscript” folder, create a new folder for each chapter and title each folder with the name of the chapter. If you don’t intend to use chapter names, just use something descriptive that tells you what the chapter is about. (You do not need to—and indeed shouldn’t—title the folders “Chapter One” and so on, because chapter numbering will be taken care of automatically during the Compile process.) The first chapter folder has been created for you with the placeholder title “Chapter”. ⁠Note: The “Manuscript” folder is what we refer to in the documentation as the “Draft folder”. It’s just been renamed “Manuscript” in this template. Create a new text document for each scene inside the chapter folders. (Upon export, scenes will be separated with the “#” character for standard manuscript format and with a blank line for other formats.) Information about characters can be placed in the “Characters” folder, and information about locations can be placed in the “Places” folder. (These are just regular folders that have had custom icons assigned to them using the Documents > Change Icon feature.) Character and setting sketch sheets have been provided which can be used for filling out information about the people and places in your novel. These are located in the “Template Sheets” folder. You should not edit the documents in the “Template Sheets” folder directly unless you wish to change the templates (which you are free to do—you may wish to customise the sketch sheets or get rid of them entirely). To create a new character sheet, click on the Characters folder (or wherever you want to create your new character sheet) and from the Project menu, select New From Template > Character Sketch. This creates a new character sketch document for you to edit and fill in with your character details. You can create setting sketch sheets in the same way. Alternatively, you can just click “Add”, or hit Ctrl+N, with the Characters or Places folders selected. You can view character and setting sketches in the Inspector as follows: Select the “Bookmarks” pane in the Inspector. If necessary, click on “Document Bookmarks” at the top and switch to “Project Bookmarks”. Click on the dropdown arrow next to the “Characters” or “Places” folders in the Bookmarks list and choose the sheet you wish to view. A “Notes” folder has been provided for project-level notes. This has been set as the default Bookmarks folder in Project > Project Settings…, so that when you create a new document from the Bookmarks sidebar in a Quick Reference panel, the document will be added to this folder. Compiling Title pages and front matter are all provided in the “Front Matter” folder (between the “Places” and “Notes” folders). Different front matter is used for different formats. Tip: You can open this document in a Quick Reference window and have it open alongside the compile dialog if you need to refer to these instructions while compiling. To compile to standard manuscript format Edit the “Title Page” document inside the Front Matter/Manuscript Format folder to ensure that it contains the correct information (by default it will use the Author Information supplied in File > Options…). Go to File > Compile… Next to “Compile for”, select “Print”, “PDF” or one of the rich text file formats such as RTF, Word or OpenOffice. Select either “Manuscript (Courier)” or “Manuscript (Times)” from the list of formats on the left (note that this list changes depending on the file format you have chosen). Ensure that the “Add front matter” button is ticked under the contents list on the right and that the “Manuscript Format” folder is selected in the pop-up button next to it. (This has already been set up for you.) Click on “Compile”. To compile to paperback PDF format Edit the front matter pages contained inside the Front Matter/Paperback folder. Go to File > Compile… Next to “Compile for”, select “PDF”. Select “Paperback (5.06" x 7.81")” from the list of formats on the left. Ensure that the “Add front matter” button is ticked under the contents list on the right and that the “Paperback” folder is selected in the pop-up button next to it. (This has already been set up for you.) Click on “Compile”. To compile to ebook format Edit or remove the dedication page contained inside the Front Matter/Ebook folder. Feel free to add any other front matter documents as required. Import a cover image. You can store this anywhere, but it makes sense to place it in the “Ebook” front matter folder. A placeholder cover image is already provided—you will want to delete that once you have imported your own. Be sure to check online for recommended image sizes and file format, because the recommendations are constantly changing. The sample cover image provided is 2,500 x 1,563 pixels. Go to File > Compile… From the “Compile for” menu, select one of the ebook formats. To create an ePub file, choose either of the “ePub Ebook” formats. To create a Kindle file, choose the “Kindle Ebook” format. Select “Ebook” from the list of formats on the left. If you have front matter documents other than the cover image, ensure that the “Add front matter” button is ticked under the contents list on the right and that the “Ebook” folder is selected in the pop-up button next to it. If you don’t have any front matter documents, you can un-tick “Add front matter”. (Un-ticking this does not affect the cover image.) Above the contents list in the rightmost header bar are six buttons. Click on each of them in turn to go through the various available settings, changing what you need. In particular: Fill in the metadata such as author name and book title. Ensure your cover image is selected and shown. Click on “Compile”. Making Changes There are various minor changes you can make to tweak this template so that it better suits your needs, as follows: Project and author name: The default book title and author name used in headers and elsewhere can be edited in the metadata pane of Compile (click the tag icon in the rightmost header bar of the Compile panel). Chapter subtitles: By default, Compile for this template is set up so that chapter numbers are added but not chapter titles. If you want to include the title of the chapter folder in Compile: Click on “Assign Section Layouts” at the bottom of the Compile panel. Select “Chapter Heading” in the list on the left. Select a different layout on the right, such as “Chapter Title”. (These layouts determine how each part of your manuscript looks in the compiled text.) Font: You can override the font used throughout a compiled document. At the top of the “Section Layouts” pane in the centre of the Compile panel, change the “Font” setting. Note that fonts are not included in ebooks, however—e-readers choose their own fonts (and you would need to pay a hefty fee for a licence to embed a font in an ebook). The “Font” setting is therefore not available for ebook formats. Page size: The “Paperback” formats are set to create a PDF with a page size of 5.06" x 7.81" or 6" x 9", which are two of the formats you can use with Amazon’s CreateSpace and are popular sizes for trade paperbacks. You can create your own paperback format using a different page size as follows: Right-click on the “Paperback (5.06" x 7.81")” format in Compile’s “Formats” list. Select “Duplicate & Edit Format…”. The compile format designer window will open. In the “Format Name” text field at the top, change the name to something meaningful (e.g. “Paperback (5.5" x 8.5")”) and select “My Formats” as the “Save To” location. Select “Page Settings” in the sidebar. Click on the “Page Setup…” button. In the “Page Setup” panel that appears, ensure “Custom” is selected in the “Paper Size” menu and click the “…” button. Enter a new paper width and height. (Do not worry about setting the margins here; if you want to change these for the compile format, do so after the next step by clicking the “Margins” button just below “Page Setup…”.) Click “OK” and then click “OK” again. Click “Save” in the Compile panel. This will return you to the main Compile preview. You now have a variation of the paperback format using a different page size that you can use at any time with any project. Making your own special folders: The “Characters” and “Places” folders are just regular folders that have been set up in a particular way; you can create other folders that work in a similar manner. To create a folder with a custom icon, add a new folder, place it where you want it, ensure it is selected, and then go to Documents > Change Icon to choose a different icon. To create your own template sheets, create a new document inside the “Template Sheets” folder and set it up however you want (e.g. add text, change the title or icon, set default metadata and so on). Now this document will be available as the basis for creating new documents from the New From Template menu. To make it so that adding a new document to the folder created in (1) always results in a document based on the template set up in (2), select the folder and go to Documents > Default Template for Subdocuments, then choose the template document you created. Working with chapters instead of scenes: By default, this project is set up so that you write each scene as a separate text document. If you don’t like to break things up quite that much and would prefer to write an entire chapter in each text document, make the following changes: Rename the “Scene” document to use your chapter title and move it so that it is on the same level as the “Chapter” folder rather than being inside it. Create a new text document for each chapter. Go to Project > Project Settings… and select “Section Types”. Select the “Default Types by Structure” tab. Delete “Level 1 files” and “Level 2 files and deeper”. In the “Section Type” column, change the setting for “All files” to “Chapter”, then hit “OK”. This tells Scrivener that all your files contain chapter text, not scenes. Compile has already been set up to apply the right formatting to the section types defined here. Using a custom table of contents in ebooks: When exporting to ebook format, Scrivener automatically generates a table of contents. If you would like to customise what appears in the contents, follow these instructions: Create a document for your table of contents inside the Front Matter/Ebook folder. Name the document “Contents”. With the “Contents” document open in the editor, select Navigate > Editor > Lock in Place. The editor header will turn pink to indicate the lock, and you will be able to work in the binder without affecting the editor. In the binder, select the documents you would like to appear in the table of contents (hold down Ctrl to select more than one document). For a simple flat list, drag the selected documents into the editor and drop them in the empty “Contents” document. Alternatively, if you would like the table of contents indented to match the binder structure, select Edit > Copy Special > Copy Documents as Structured Link List and then click into the text of the “Contents” document and hit Ctrl+V or use Edit > Paste. The documents you wish to appear in the table of contents will now appear as a list of links. If you wish to centre the table of contents, select the text and centre it. In the Inspector, change the “Section Type” of the “Contents” document to “Table of Contents”. Remove the editor lock by toggling Navigate > Editor > Lock in Place or deselecting the option from the menu that appears when right-clicking the document icon in the editor header. Now, when you compile, your custom “Contents” document will be used instead of the automatically-generated one. The titles in the links of the “Contents” document will automatically be updated to match those of the final compiled ebook. Sample Documents The “Sample Output” folder inside the Research folder contains examples of documents that have been created by compiling from this template. “Standard Manuscript” shows the results when compiling to “Manuscript (Courier)”, and “Paperback Novel” shows the results when compiling to “Paperback (5.06" x 7.81")” format with chapter subtitles included, as described in Making Changes, above. Final Note Scrivener project templates are flexible and are not intended to restrict you to a particular workflow. You can change, delete or move the files and folders contained in the template to suit how you work. Like all templates in Scrivener, this project was originally created from the “Blank” template. We’ve simply added a few folders and set everything up in ways that should be useful to novel writers. Everything you can do with this project, you could equally do by creating a “Blank” project and setting it up yourself. You can create your own templates by setting up a skeletal project with the files, folders and settings you would like to use for new projects and using File > Save As Template…