Fiction formating suggestions--pouty email

["ivygort" <ivygort@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fiction formatting suggestions, these are just suggestions, and I don't want to piss anyone off. You see I'm very dyslexic and when fics are formatted a certain way I can't read them.  Which makes me disappointed on the one hand but pissed off on the other. (Piss off at my learning disability not at the author.)

 

So I am going to offer suggestions and if you guys want, you can think about them, if you don't that's cool too.

 

1) Always include a blank line when dialogue switches or shifts characters.

Example:

 

Then before she could react she was pinned to the ground by the vampire that had replaced his soul.

 

"Because they knew you were there, stuck where they couldn't reach you! You stupid bitch!" The vampire bragged, his yellow eyes gleaming with greed and hunger, his ravaged face already healing and forming into the ridges of the demon.

 

"How?" Willow was just able to squeak out as the vampire pressed his weight down on her chest.

 

"How what, meal? How did I change so fast? It's a simple enough spell for Vincent, the first lieutenant of my Lord, to perform." The vampire reached down and roughly pushed Willow's head to the side exposing her neck.

 

"And once I make it back to my Lord with word of where your two slayer friends are holed up-I will feast on Slayer pain and blood!" He continued to gloat, drawing out Willow's misery.

 

2) Huge paragraphs.  While, I hate one or two line paragraphs, I at least can read them.  Where as with the huge, long, half page paragraphs I don't have the faintest hope of being able to follow what's being written.  So while trying to stay within the frame work of good grammar rules, if you could cut or break-up the monsters paragraphs of text I would thank you.

 

3) For the shake of email programs put a line between paragraphs. An indention on a sheet of paper works fine but not for email.  I have Outlook Express and it jumbles up paragraphs that only have indentions.  It makes things look like one solid wall of text--which again--makes it impossible for me to read.

 

4) Fancy backgrounds or designs or images under text--I have no possible hope of reading anything placed over a design of any kind.  Wheather its a website or an email, if you have text over a design I lose out getting to read your story.

 

Thank you for time.  And yes, I realize that this email sounds all pouty, its just I don't like seeing a cool story and then I find out I can't read it!  Major huge POUT, on that one.

 

 

 

 

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Ivy

 

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