Printable Manuscript Writing Paper (Free PDF)
Draft paper in standard manuscript shape - one inch margins, widely spaced rules, a numbered line counter at the left and a word count box at the top.
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Standard manuscript format is double spaced with one inch margins, which works out at roughly twenty-five lines and about two hundred and fifty words on a page. This sheet draws that page: one inch of white all round, twenty-five ruled lines spaced the way a double-spaced typescript sits, and a header with rules for the title or chapter, the author and the page number. It is for people who draft longhand and want the page they write to behave like the page they will later type.
Down the left edge, outside the writing area, every line is numbered, with each fifth number picked out in dark type. That turns vague progress into something you can count: you can see you are on line eighteen, and a note to yourself that a scene runs from line six to line twenty means something later. At the top right a bordered word count box is split into two cells, THIS PAGE and RUNNING TOTAL, to be filled in by hand when the page is done.
Twenty-eight and thirty-two line versions are there for smaller handwriting or for drafting closer to a finished page count. The rules are spread evenly between the header and the footer space, so whichever count you pick the lines fill the page without crowding the bottom. There is nothing to type into - this is a sheet for pen and paper. One page, US Letter or A4.
