Formatting a book is a tedious job. It is crucial to get the formatting right. If you don’t have a well-formatted book, the result is having a book that is unreadable and unenjoyable. You need to pay attention to all aspects while formatting a book, including, paragraphs, style, spacing, margins, etc.
When formatting a paragraph in your book, it’s important to be consistent with your font style, size, and line spacing. This will help your readers stay engaged with your writing. In this blog post, we’ll provide tips on how to format a paragraph for your book.
Before we look into ways of formatting a paragraph, let us understand the paragraphing style. Writers usually break their writing into parts, chapters, sections, and then into paragraphs. Paragraphs is a standard device for organizing the ideas in a book or the flow of a story. When the writer creates a paragraph, it breaks the flow of text and sends an important signal to the reader.
There are two ways to format paragraphs, you can choose either one, but don’t mix both ways in the same manuscript.
- Classic formatting style is paragraphs with an indent at the beginning, and no space between new paragraphs. The indent, combined with the short last line of the paragraph that just ended, gives a clear visual signal that a new paragraph has started. It tends to be used in fiction works like novels and short stories.
- Modern style has no indents at the beginning of paragraphs. It has a space between paragraphs. This style is used often in non-fiction.
These are the basic rules while formatting paragraphs in a book. Remember to use either one of the formatting styles depending on the book you are writing and avoid one of the common book formatting mistakes.
