[FFML] Review of Drunkard's Walk II

[Arthur Hansen]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:23 PM, Adrian Tymes <wingcat at pacbell.net> wrote:
>> No, it's simply correct. E-mail is plain text, and should not be
>> anything else. HTML E-mail should never have been devised, and should
>> never be used.
>
> It has its applications and uses.  However, HTML is rather excessive for
> most of the types of stories posted to this list - and anyone who has a
> problem with writing in plain text in general, has a problem writing.
> (I emphasize "in general": it has its place for some stories, but if you
> don't think you can write without bolding and italics - or multiple font
> colors and sizes, or other advanced HTML options - then chances are you
> can't write well even with those.)

Proper names for war ships should be italicized and it can fit well to
differentiate between 'saying' something easily and thoughts. But I
won't post my stories here because of the fact that if I do get
feedback, I have to manually type it in.

Pure text is fundamentally 'non-writer friendly' to me.

-- 
Arthur Hansen