My likes and dislikes as a reader

Dountnothere

Lazy Artist, and even lazier writer…
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I can read a bad grammar and my brain autocorrects from years of using MTL. However, formatting and syntax is where I draw the line. Because when there are no line breaks it makes me go cross eyed trying to read walls of texts. Your story might be great n’ all and have all the tags I like, but I won’t read it ‘cus of bad formatting.

Dialogue tags, dialogue quotes, or lack there of in both or one.

I’m fine with single quotes since that’s a uk standard and it’s at least one is better than none. Or worse, the - at the beginning and nothing at the end to signal when they stop speaking.

I also dislike when people write the reply in the same paragraph of two ppl talking. But also don’t tell me who’s talking if there’s more than 2-3 people talking. Just do a line break it’s that simple! It seems so basic and I just want the bare minimum at least. If reading slop at least my slop is accessible/readable.
 
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