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Why is Scrivener using the "First pages" setting for the entire manuscript?
I've managed to fix this with the help of someone on the Scrivener forums. I don't know which specific step fixed it, but these were the steps taken:
Copied the export format to a new format
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Format for writing extended dialogue
Personally I find this boring, it is "talking heads", and will get you rejected pretty quickly.
It works in screenplays because it is the job of directors and actors (and special effect) to ...
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Format for writing extended dialogue
There are no rules; you can do anything you want, providing it works. If you can make it work, then do it.
There are precedents for doing what you want to do. In "Gödel, Escher, and Bach," ...
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Format for writing extended dialogue
In current popular and literary fiction that is uncommon and readers will be irritated unless there is a reason for that formatting that explains it to the readers, e.g. that kind of dialoge ...
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Spacing around (and types of) dashes in American English
There is nothing right or wrong, but thinking makes it so
In short, it doesn't matter. As the author, just write it as you are comfortable. Don't inhibit your creativity and expression by dissipating ...
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Spacing around (and types of) dashes in American English
Most major American style guides say that an em-dash must not be surrounded by spaces. However, there is one exception (that I know of):
AP (p. 368): An em dash, like an ellipsis, has a space before ...
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Spacing around (and types of) dashes in American English
Yes. To Amercians used to the American typographic convention using an en dash with spaces will appear just as "wrong" as the em dash without spaces appears to you.
The same goes for ...
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