That's how it always works
So I converted my manuscript to Word and fixed some of the formatting and changed underlines to italic, courier new to tnr. What I forgot to do was check the page breaks. Page breaks don't carry over consistently from OO to Word. Most times they do, but sometimes they don't. Even when they do, you don't get the dotted PAGE BREAK line but merely a hard character return that seems tougher than all his brothers, making the next line start on its own page.
And of course, I leave one extra hard return at the end of each chapter in OO in case I want to go back and add more to the end. It's faster to have an individual return to target rather than putting the curser at the end of a line and hitting return. Don't ask me, I just do better that way. Of course, in this situation, a number of those returns are the only thing on a page, so I have a few blank pages in the middle of the manuscript.
This is all neither here nor there if I hadn't sent the thing to readers. Minor mistakes, you may feel, but I think it's disrespectful to people taking time out of their lives to read something I wrote, not to mention shoddy in ways of a professional presentation of my work.
Errors have been fixed. Hopefully this is lesson learned enough I won't repeat the mistake in the future.
And of course, I leave one extra hard return at the end of each chapter in OO in case I want to go back and add more to the end. It's faster to have an individual return to target rather than putting the curser at the end of a line and hitting return. Don't ask me, I just do better that way. Of course, in this situation, a number of those returns are the only thing on a page, so I have a few blank pages in the middle of the manuscript.
This is all neither here nor there if I hadn't sent the thing to readers. Minor mistakes, you may feel, but I think it's disrespectful to people taking time out of their lives to read something I wrote, not to mention shoddy in ways of a professional presentation of my work.
Errors have been fixed. Hopefully this is lesson learned enough I won't repeat the mistake in the future.
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