Little detail question here. How does everyone handle their page breaks? I couldn't find anything specific in my formatting book about this. Specifically, what's the minimum amount of lines you leave at the top/bottom of pages for both action and dialogue? I seem to have been playing around with this some time ago, and now of course, there is no default button. I'm guessing it's two, but just want to make sure.
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Page Breaks
- Thread starter Jijenji
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Generally you don't want to split dialog across a page break at all if you can help it, but if you must, you should be sure to use a (MORE) or (Cont'd) notation.. Personally I think if you have to split action across a page break, anything less than 2 or 3 lines of text on either side of the break should have you moving the entire block to the new page rather than splitting it.
It's an interesting question though, I don't know that I've ever read any hard & fast rules on this either. Perhaps one of the gurus can comment.