![]() Think of the editor/agent reading your manuscript for the first time and use clever page breaks in your manuscript. Sometimes, you can use bigger type to indicate a character shouting or a particularly dramatic turning point. Add extra spaces between blocks to indicate a pause. ![]() ![]() If not, consider formatting your manuscript so that it looks like a picture book: break up the sentences into logical blocks, with shortish sentence line breaks, as if they were being placed in a picture book layout. If you are confident about your page breaks, you can include them, numbered simply 1-12. Is there enough tension? Is there a clear turning point? Do readers really care about the characters enough to go on a journey with them? TOP TIP: Make up a little dummy book and read your story aloud to see how the page turns are working. It is definitely something you should try to do at home to work out whether the pacing of your story is as dynamic as you can make it. These are not set in stone and will often change when you are fine-tuning the story with an editor and when an illustrator gets on board. Should you include spread breaks? It can be helpful to show an editor that you have worked out the spread breaks and page turns. Research your format and target age range so that you pitch the word count and number of spreads in your picture book correctly. Your name, contact email and phone number
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