Slight problem with your formatting -- you've got a whole bunch of
non-standard characters throughout, which will in general appear as
something completely different for users on different platforms. To be
sure that everyone is able to read your story, please be sure to use:
1) Straight quote marks ("), the ones that look the same at the
beginning of a quote as at the end of it, and don't slant to one side or
the other.
2) Three plain old periods (...) for ellipses rather than a single
character that looks like three compressed periods.
3) An ordinary "e" in words like "fiance" or "fiancee", not an accented
one.
For the benefit of those who don't know it's worth pointing out to the list
that MS Word will use part of it's Autocorrect feature to automatically turn
text like ... and " into these non-standard characters, which can make your fic
look badly formatted on non-windows systems. If you don't want it to do that,
you'll need to find the autocorrect options that handle this and disable them.
(I only know how to do it in Word 97 - "Tools" menu, click "AutoCorrect", go to
the "AutoCorrect" tab and uncheck "Replace text as you type." Other versions
should be similar...)
GKScotty
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