![]() ![]() For some reason, that hit didn't come up for me when I googled "slug lines in novel manuscripts." I guess I was just sort of thinking of that set up as a standard header. The more I learn, the more work setting up a manuscript seems to meĬool, thanks. I always assumed that novel headers (aside from the title page) were supposed to have something like this at the top of each page: Does anyone have any experience with this, because it's the first time I've encountered the term. be as evident to them as to the reader (since slug lines don't appear in published books, unless they use the technique for having chapter headings with location and time in them). Shouldn't the location of the scene/time of day etc. So does this mean you must include location information in the headers? This would suggest that you need to set up a separate header for each scene in your novel, which sounds like a lot of work. of a scene, and this blog also discusses their use in manuscripts (in the header, I assume, since the Author Author blog said to put the slug line there). I've never heard the term "slug line" before, so I googled it and got a lot of hits about their being something used in script writing to denote the location, time of day etc. The page number should appear in the slug line, not anywhere else on the page." "( Each page of the manuscript (other than the title page) should have a standard slug line in the header. Most of the instructions were as expected, but this line caught my attention: I was reading an agent's blog about manuscript submission.
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