My novel has two long sections in it that read like the full transcript of a blog, with my plot advancing through daily or weekly entries. I'm wondering how best to format them in a manuscript.
Understand that the entries vary in length. Some are ten or more pages, but one is only ten words long. I had been separating them with the *** breaks, and lumping them together into 'subsections,' but I want to add a date heading at the top of each one, and the simple *** just looks wrong to me with a date set underneath it.
Should I make each entry like a new chapter, breaking between pages and starting each entry halfway down the page? Should I set the date heading to one side? I'd love anyone's thoughts on this.
Understand that the entries vary in length. Some are ten or more pages, but one is only ten words long. I had been separating them with the *** breaks, and lumping them together into 'subsections,' but I want to add a date heading at the top of each one, and the simple *** just looks wrong to me with a date set underneath it.
Should I make each entry like a new chapter, breaking between pages and starting each entry halfway down the page? Should I set the date heading to one side? I'd love anyone's thoughts on this.
But the key part is I'd put the title of the entry above the date, which I think looks better than a lone date.) I've included a bit of the "normal" part of the document to show how I'd treat the transition.