Hey there, all you WordPerfect users aspiring to write short fiction! For you maligned folks and you folks only, I've added a
new feature to my inexplicably popular
manuscript formatting instructions.
I created a set of
WordPerfect templates and macros that let you easily create a properly formatted short story manuscript and update the word count as you type with a simple keyboard shortcut.
Downloading, installation, and usage instructions
here.
(For you eager users of Microsoft Word, I'll get to you soon. I'm far more comfortable in WordPerfect, which I've been using faithfully ever since version 4.0 for DOS, and even so, the programming and page-building took quite a bit longer than I expected.)