I want to start writing a book, using my laptop and MS Word. How should I format the page? How large should my indents be? Should I be writing in double space or one-and-a-half space? What font size should I be using?

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double spaced is alwasy good, and for the font, dont make it to big or to small. 12 or 14 or 16 would work. and also if your writing a book, write it as in chapters and spaces and also your indents should be about just pressing the tab button once or twice. hope it helped.

Have you written anything of this magnitude before? Really, you are putting the cart before the horse when you worry about indenting, formatting, double-spacing and all the rest. Yes, that is important, but only when you are submitting the MS to a publisher (and I have to tell you, most publishers DON'T read unsolicited material and return it, and most get hundreds of thousands of MS's a year, thus the supply is far greater than the demand). Why don't you begin by making a synopsis of your idea, then outline it, then proceed from that point. Writing a book is an enormous undertaking (a real book, I mean, not one of those asinine things the teen set does and then self-publish on some ridiculous web site or other vanity-type publisher - that is NOT real publishing. They run around this site telling everyone they have written a book - or two, or three, or whatever, and really, it's so funny, because they are not real books - often just long ramblng essays - and are usually horrendous!). Don't worry about style and format and all that until you have something concrete.

If you're planning on submitting this to book publishers, this is what you want to do. Double space Minimum margins of 1" top, 1" bottom, 1/2" either side Typeface: either Times New Roman 12 pt or Courier New 11 point. Do not go overboard with the formatting here. Book publishers will format the book as they see fit; that's not your job. Your job is to make it as easy to read as possible, so the manuscript doesn't get tossed because it's just too much work to read.