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Tarot Cards Meaning

Major Arcana

Cups

Pentacles

Swords

Wands

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Formatting your Manuscript

If you’re planning on one day turning your manuscript in to literary agents and publishing houses, you need to make sure it’s formatted correctly. In many cases, your manuscript will be skipped over if it isn’t done to industry standard, so here’s the basics that you’ll need if you don’t want to be ignored. Before I get started, please know that this is aimed specifically at fiction manuscripts. If you’re writing non-fiction or a memoir, the expectations will be different, so it would be wise to Google what you need.

The Basics

Make sure your font is 12 point Times New Roman, Courier New, or Arial. These are the only three fonts you are allowed to pick from.

Your spacing should be 1 inch on all sides of the text. This is the default on most word processors, but double check your settings just to be sure.

Your text should be double spaced.

All of your indentations must be a half inch. Do not press indent. Instead, drag over the top arrow on the ruler to have every new paragraph automatically indent.

The Title Page

The top left-hand corner of your title page will have all your personal information. They want to see your name, address, phone number, e-mail address, the novel’s genre, and word count.

Your novel’s title is allowed to be between 20-24 point font if you want. Bold is also an option, but not necessary.

The title will appear halfway down the title page.

“A novel by [your name]” will be about three quarters of the way down the page.

The Next Pages

If you have a dedication, it will be on its own page.

If you have some sort of verse or quote, those will also need their own pages.

Do not include a page for acknowledgements.

The Chapters

Chapter titles will be 12 point font. No bolding or italics.

Chapters will start from one quarter to halfway down the page.

An easy way to format chapter headings is to press enter five or six times

Make sure you always start your chapters the same way every time.

When you start a new chapter, make sure you use a page break to bump the new chapter onto a new page. This will keep it in place so that it will never budge, no matter how much you cut out or add to the previous chapter.

Page Numbers

Page numbers will start with 1 on Chapter 1 of your manuscript. Page numbers will not appear on the title page or dedication page.

Page 1 will be labeled in the footer of Chapter 1. It should be centered.

Page 2 will be in the header of the next page.

From page 2 onward, your headers will be labeled like this:

If you insert a section break after the title and dedication pages, it will make it easier to insert the page numbers.

For the most part, this is the most important of what you’ll need to know for formatting your manuscript. I used this video as reference, so I’m trusting everything it says is true because it was made by an author who has several novels published, and because it was uploaded this year, it should be up to date.

But just remember, whenever you go to turn in a manuscript, make sure you check the website of the agent or publisher you’re trying to contact. They might have specifications that differ with the ones stated in this video, and you should always do whatever you can to abide by what they want.

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they were non-binary... but no one believed them because they had HUGE TITS

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there's something so compelling about stories where a character's virtues intensify into flaws that lead to their downfall. loyalty and love becoming so all-consuming that compassion outside of them ceases to exist. duty overwhelming any moral compass until order becomes more important than justice. selflessness so intense it becomes self-destruction. let me watch while whatever saved the hero in the beginning destroys them. let me see them fall to their own worst impulses disguised as what once made them good.

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I am a WHORE for “the love is requited, they’re both just idiots”

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Can confirm. My wedding ring is moissanite and even just washing my hands with soap and water make the thing look like a spotlight on my finger.

Ive had jewelers do a double take when I went in to buy something for a relative.

Plus its discovery was an in an impact crater from a meteor by french chemist Henri Moissan.

If that isnt the coolest shit ever. Something from space made this and it looks better.

11/10 will always recommend.

Weird peeve time. Calling lab grown gemstones “fake” is stupid because it’s the same shit just not formed naturally. An artificially grown diamond is the same shit as a natural diamond it is the exact same material bro it’s all fuckign carbon

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Real lawyer plays Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

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Normalize disliking people and avoiding them without starting a conflict and insisting that they're bad people. You don't actually need to be able to call someone toxic and abusive in order to justify that you're not vibing with them.

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Kiki's menu for Rustberg Market Faire

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Azerothian Baseborn Surnames

Baseborn surnames are generally surnames given to bastards or orphans.

Primarily a custom used by cultures who place a lot of stock in bloodlines and surnames, therefore mostly Alliance.

Azerothian custom only, excludes Draenei/Orcs and other alien settlers.

Location based, not race based.

Changes after a deeply altering and traumatic event to place births more effectively.

Provinces/Areas have been grouped into Geographical/Cultural locales for ease.

Some areas are not grouped, generally because of individual significance.

100% headcanon, feel free to make your own or disregard it completely!

Eastern Kingdoms

Quel’thalas - Primarily Blood Elf or former High Elf Population (Quel’danas, Eversong, Ghostlands)

Pre-Split: Newsong

Post-Split (Year 22 Onwards): Ashfall

Lordaeron - Formerly Human Population (Tirisfal Glades, Silverpine, Hillsbrad, Alterac, East/West Plaguelands)

Pre-Murder of Terenas: Woods

Post-Murder of Terenas (Year 3 Onwards): Graves

Gilneas - Primarily Worgen or former Human Population

Pre-Curse: Hedge

Post-Curse (Year 28 Onwards): Thorn

Steeplands - Primarily Wildhammer and some Human Population (Hinterlands, Arathi/Twilight Highlands)

Wildhammer: Stoneshell

Human: Moor

Fenfields - Primarily Ironforge Population (Wetlands, Loch Modan)

Peatfoot

Dun Morogh - Primarily Ironforge Population

Fettlebrass

Scorchcrags - Primarily Dark Iron Population (Badlands, Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge)

Brimglare

Riverpaths - Diverse Population (Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Darkshire, Redridge Mountains)

Brooks

Kalimdor

Eventides - Primarily Night Elf or former Highborne Population (Teldrassil, Azuremyst/Bloodmyst Isle, Darkshore)

Pre-Burning: Silentgrove

Post-Burning (Year 33 Onwards, presuming re-establishment): Bravebloom

Moonglade - Primarily Night Elf Population

Softseed

Nightdales - Primarily Night Elf Population (Winterspring, Azshara)

Brightspring

Shadewealds - Primarily Night Elf Population (Felwood, Mount Hyjal, Ashenvale)

Shrubroot

Thicketwilds - Primarily Night Elf or former Highborne Population (Stonetalon Mountains, Desolace, Feralas)

Night Elf: Hardvine

Highborne: Sproutgem

Broken Isles

Azsuna - Primarily Highborne Population

Leyshard

Val’sharah - Primarily Night Elf Population

Meadowdew

Suramar - Primarily Nightborne or former Highborne Population

Pre-Sundering Suramar (Year -13,500~ to Year -10,000): Silverset

Pre-Rebellion Post-Sundering Suramar City (Year -10,000 to Year 32): Willowseve

Post-Rebellion Suramar City (Year 32 Onwards): Duskcomet

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I’m sure someones already said this but I often see Tumblr described as a hellsite. This is fundamentally incorrect.

Tumblr is the faesite. Everybody is super confused and lost, you keep running into random places. Somehow you end up stuck there forever after interacting a couple of times. The people are all strange, everybody simultaneously seems to be from the future and the past as if time is meaningless.

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I feel like this is how we domesticated dogs Alternate Universe edition.

Technically true.

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😎🧡 Portal between posts

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😎💙  Portal between posts

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the number of times i think about the full body viking skeleton i saw in the museum is ridiculous like when i say it haunts me i mean it actually haunts me