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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2019/01/11/jeff-bezos-texts-lauren-sanchez-private/2546485002/ Sounds very sappy, over-the-top, socially awkward, and excessive. I guess I wasn't too far off with my rendition.

What do you think might be a less thick way of him complimenting her but still depicting infatuation?

I like this sample you wrote. It makes me think more along the lines of what I'm going for. Thank you.

This is the story opening. I'm trying to show the main character, Kaena, lounging in high-price luxury in the master bed room a yacht with the yacht's owner. I'm hoping for advice on more effective ways of writing the opening paragraph. Start: Kaena lounged against albatross down pillows on a...

I suggest changing to third person passive ("were" riding instead of "are" riding). In the opening paragraph, I like that you're making them surprised by the oncoming rain and storm. You can strengthen it pretty easily. I would suggest adding some detail about the air being dry and their clothes...

I guess my question is, when agents ask for 1" margins, are they asking for the word document to set to 1" margins, regardless of where the bottom text lands, or do they want the body of the text to actually touch 1" at the bottom?

When using 1" margins, double space, and 12 pt. Times New Roman with widow/orphan control turned off, the last line of text in the body does not actually touch the 1" margin line at the bottom. Instead, I have to change the bottom margin to 0.97". I have attached images showing the difference...

This This looks like the exact solution. Hot damn, you are a genius. Thank you massively.

This is standard formatting across the board.

When a chapter gets long enough to extend onto the next page, it screws up the formatting so that each successive chapter title is not the same distance from the margin. The purpose of page breaks is to ensure the number of spaces from the top margin to "Chapter x" is the same, regardless of...

By placing my cursor after the period of the last sentence in a chapter, and pressing the "Page Break" button.

I think this is the correct forum for this problem. I apologize if it's not. I'm compiling my manuscript and I am inserting page breaks at the end of the last lines of every chapter. However, I am running into a problem where the page break appears to add an extra line beneath the final...

Tau Zero.

I ask this honestly: how is a novel given credit for 'scientific accuracy' and 'realism'? Do publishers have 'experts' on call to look over a story and determine such? Are there organizations that sift through novels looking for realism and give such books publicity on their own time? Do books...

Thanks for the reply. How does a story like Lord of the Rings apply where at the end of each book (until Return of the King) the central conflict isn't resolved?

I'm referring to fully-written stories that get broken up.

Thanks for the reply. Question regarding the bolded: did that solve the length issue? Does just cutting a book in half solve the problem of a 'long' story? Or, does your story being 150k mean the story itself is too long regardless of being split?

I’m not sure how to ask this. What determines a story being divided into multiple parts versus being kept as one complete book? I’m referring to a central conflict that has its three-act structure broken into multiple books rather than a ‘series’ of self-contained stories. For instance, what...

The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet. My Kindle finally died after 11 years so I had to buy a paperback.

The reason for this is the wavy ramp is optimized for one of the kinematic equations. Definitely counterintuitive to look at though. Basically, the steep drops increase the vertical acceleration which decreases the time it takes to displace vertically. However, the more waves, the longer the...