Quote Originally Posted by isabeau6 View Post
thank you for those helpful suggestions...as a matter of fact i did do better with format with later stories...i copied and pasted this from my word pad..i suck lol...i shall re write the idea Muse gave me from scratch using the correct format and using punctuations and abbreviations that i know i didn't use in my earlier attempts...i also forgot to capatilize back then..this was hmm a year ago that i began writing..and i wrote about ten stories in all i think...my best being "Melanie gets a visit from the Plumber."
MS Word unfortunately has its own set of formatting rules it imposes on text pasted from it into message board windows like this. To avoid those formatting issues, you need to save your MS Word doc as a plain text file and then re-open it in Notepad. Make sure 'Word Wrap' is turned off then copy and paste into here.

Looking forward to reading more of your work and yes, there's a lot of lovely people here willing to freely give of their time to help new writers develop the craft of writing.

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