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Wait wait, back the bus up… Americans don’t use egg cups or have electric kettles? What in the actual hell!

Still beating that dead horse, I see… Hey, everyone! You can find @nautiscarader on AO3 and tumblr. He just stops here to complain from time to time because we don’t let him link that in his stories, as per paragraph 3 of our Terms of Service (the same ToS he agreed to when he made his account): See, he’s exempt because he says so, and we’re too stupid to understand that. Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima fucking culpa.

Thanks man, that really helped!

One personal rule I try to follow is to avoid using “the” to start a sentence, and certainly try to avoid “the” to start a story.

I'm a latecomer to the fandom. Despite having heard of it when it was new, I only just recently got the opportunity to actually watch it. I look forward to the day you resurrect this series, or add other works in the fandom. If you're looking for a beta at the time, hit me up. Email is the display name used above at gmail dot com.

This post has suggestions on how to fix it: http://www2.adult-fanfiction.org/forum/topic/64151-how-to-fix-the-black-diamond-issue/

I agree. However I do try not to use the same kind of descriptions over and over. I have a horror of repeating myself except where I want to for emphasis. I’ve also had to start finding more subtile ways of describing things than using adverbs. Sadly this can make things a bit more wordy. I tend to be a bit limited in how to describe emotions and so-on too because, being unable to see, I’ve very little understanding of things like facial expressions and body language. It can be very hard to find alternatives to… “she said angrily,” “He said excitedly,” “she announced sternly.” I wonder too if sighted people might find my writing sometimes odd, since I tend to write in a way that makes my screen reader read it back most effectively, and that looks right on the braille display. I imagine sometimes that might not quite tally with ease of reading for a sighted person. For instance if I use italics, neither display nore screen reader gives any indication that they’re there. It would be great if I could use something like, “That is *really* bad!” However I’m told by everything I’ve read this isn’t really permissible. Even to me it doesn’t look right in fiction writing so I don’t… except when talking online.