I agree that there's a need to express deeper feelings with something more than simple "ooohs!" and "aaahs!" but, if I used Microsoft Word as my sole editing tool, I'd have long since given up writing entirely. Word is about as stodgy as a 200-year old Republican - even after I appended its dictionary with all the words needed to write for BDSM. (Interesting that “fuck” wasn’t rejected as an error but “pantymonster” was. And I won’t even try to get into the “wet” words…) Worse, I’ve gotten into endless loops where Word tells me to do something, I do it and Word tells me to do the original thing again to correct “my” error.

What I gotten into doing is [Note: Word just told me to replace ‘is’ with ‘am’ in this sentence. I should trust Word? Shit!] writing a larger amount of descriptive text rather than subject the speaker to questionable dialog. The upshot is that my stories are getting longer and will soon become too long for the title of “short stories” but my characters are starting to ‘sound’ more in the reader’s mind than on the written page.

That said, is it stupid to use “LOL!” in a story or is it commonly accepted as an acronym for generally or even universally understood vernacular? Just asking…

Quote Originally Posted by slavelucy
It's all about context; it would be completely inappropriate to detail a scene wherein someone was having a screaming orgasm and type "Mm, Ah"...but, equally, the extended versions could start to become somewhat slapstick and a bit like a panto. *looks at LD* - Your editor - she's BEHIND YOU!! ( Ohhh no she isn't!! - LOL)

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