Reply To: Headline and first paragraph

Still fiddling with this after three days. Getting ready to commit suicide. I even opened a template someone sent. Figured that as easier than doing it from scratch, since nothing works.

Anyway … the introductory paragraph at the TOP of the page could be three to seven lines long. Drop down several spaces for the story title. Then drop down a few more for the first story paragraph. So instead of a Chapter Number, we have “Intro paragraph”, instead of Chapter Title, we have “Story Title,” and then the lead paragraph is still the lead.

The lead paragraph on occasion stays where it’s intended to be. But the chapter title keeps wandering. Apparently it uses a “Space before” and a “Space after,” which means as story title it’s going to wander, rather than remaining fixed.

I dunno … I’m feeling pretty stupid at this point. Perhaps it would work best to just create different text boxes, flow and get on with it.