Formatting Manuscripts with Reedsy | Authortube 

Folding laundry at 3am? While I have been up at odd hours lately, I don't think continuing that pattern is the best choice for my writing life, lol. Great to see your book in DL Tillery's fundraiser pack! 💖

Vellum all the way for me. But I recently learned it's only for Macs, so that sucks for anyone without an apple computer. I think that's a loss of business for them, so they should fix that. But I'm glad to learn of different methods of formatting, so this was a great video!

Watching this video again to help me with my formatting. Very helpful :)

I hope I can get up in time to catch part of your WWW slot! This is a great walk thru of using Reedsy! This video will be so useful for aspiring self-publishers!

Thanks for sharing. Quite amazing to watch 😊

Hoping to join you for your sprint!

What a creative short story hope it gets a continuation?

I thought this was an excellent overview of the Reedsy editor, which I didn't know they had. I've seen quite a few of these lately - Vellum, Atticus and now this. I quite liked how integrated the Reedsy book editor is into the rest of the Reedsy marketplace, nice feature. I have two main thoughts: 1) I don't really tend to have much trust in these "webby" apps that run through a browser; I've heard stories of Google Docs going haywire at large counts etc. Also I worry a bit about the permanence of some of these bespoke web-only apps - if they close down, that's it! You don't even have the downloaded program to use. I feel much more comfortable working with programs running on bare metal (with suitable backups). Also I'm yet to see a satisfactory equivalent of Track Changes in Word, which is the industry standard for manuscript submissions. 2) Services like Vellum, Atticus, Reedsy Editor, Canva et al... I worry these actually serve to de-skill self-published authors. You just click a few buttons and it's magically "done" for you. We have to wear multiple hats (marketer, editor, branding etc) so I feel it's important to a) be able to delegate and commission out work where it's outside of our skillset but b) have some basic layout/image manipulation skills so we can make minor corrections where needed without having to go out and either find someone to do it or pay them more. I understand that learning these things means using time we don't all have but it's worth banking in that time. Did you try out any traditional formatting options? I use Affinity Publisher (it's equivalent to Adobe InDesign but a lot cheaper and just as capable) and, yes, it looks complicated to start but once you learn the basics you can achieve some very good results. (My book interiors are professional but not fancy).

*rubs hands with glee at the title of this video* 😁😁😁

Such an interesting software! I have never heard of it before! I usually write on Overleaf and there are samples of the format that I need to follow...so I don't have specific freedom while writing a paper for a specific journal. But I am so so tempted to start writing one day a magical fantasy middle grade book myself! 🥰🥰✨✨📚📚

At the end of your video you said what sounded like 'Ingred Spark" -- and was wondering who or what that was? thank you. (New to all this)

What was your worst formatting story when writing?

Hi, just trying out Reedsy to format my book. How do you insert headings? Is there a way? Thanks.

I haven’t used readsy I trued fivver and paid for an editor to take advantage of me

Can writers include footnotes/endnotes with Reedsy?

Does it have drop caps yet?

ANTHOLOGY SHORT?! 👀👀👀

can you justify the text?