Desiderius Price

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LaTeX is an old school but good program. You edit a text file, run the program(s), and it converts your text file to one of many other formats, with pretty equations, nice cross referencing for figures, tables, and bibliography. PDF is one format it can convert to, RTF is another. As I’m not using a screen reader, I’m guessing, however, because latex is so old school, you should be able to do bold, italic, etc as needed with it.

Practice, practice, practice, and find a good beta.

Might something like LaTex work better for the screenreader? It’s different, in that you spell out, via macros, bold, italic, etc, but its power is in consistency, and you can use about any old text editor to create documents, then run latex to generate the PDFs or RTF (I find the RTF has about best transfer to the AFF editor, so it’s minimal with alignment, indents, and horizontal lines).

I use libreoffice for writing stories. I hope you’re using some type of editor, and not just typing directly it into AFF’s editor – I’ve had it timeout on me before while trying to post a chapter.

Its interesting to apply this to societies too, when appropriate. (ie, in mine, conservative/religious, *but* when it comes to cheerleaders, best not to let that stubble show through the body paint.)

And some rather interesting debates can be had. Welcome to AFF, and start a few more fires

It’s the example I point to as where my database helps, so I can track these things, because I had ages ago, listed a more generic shellfish allergy. This was after cursing Google for pushing diarrhea cures when I wanted to trigger it… go figure. When I do want to bring some significance to a character, I’ll roll the dice, effectively, and run a utility I have that picks random lines out of a file. I’ve got files for personality traits, hobbies, allergies, occupations, and phobias. So, I’ll pick, say 10, and see what makes sense, and create a character for that. I use the random thing, since although it’s easy to say “I want the character to have flaws”, trying to pick those traits while also not overusing a few favourites, that’s tougher.

Nothing that dramatic… just more than enough unpleasantness to ruin a date though [and it was way better than my first idea of food poisoning because it was more targeted, and added to his character.]

If it’s “Butt ::slap:: sir ::slap:: the ::slap:: Pizza ::slap:: ….”, isn’t that technically two speakers? Unless this person was slapping themself, I’d say that it be broken into paragraphs. (I’m counting the slapping as speech here.

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Yeah, I had recently a good 5k toward ironing out some of my character’s flaws, but it was kinda overboard, so I killed it. So, I left them at that point where they can jump further by tripping over their shoelaces. Made a subsequent section more challenging, but I think I managed.

An allergy to oysters, but eats them anyways because they’re so delicious, that comes to mind.

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Chapter 12, “March” is now posted, enjoy. - DP

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Pay no attention to the significance of it being painted grass green, not to be confused with forest green.

PWP – porn without plot, or as I prefer, “Plot, what Plot?” I suggested that as a PWP has no plot, it would have no skeleton to seen

Dunno, it’s more fun playing with my gun. I like to strike a balance, I don’t every detail to be unimportant, but I don’t want every detail to be important either. So, a blue herring in a bunch of red herrings might be very significant, or it might just be that the packer is color blind.

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