Call me Mr. Negative if you must, but when I see a wall of text on a "blog", I close it and move on. All the posts appear to be similarly formatted. (I only looked at two.)
Thanks for the comment. That's fine. (shrug) To each his or her own. If I may...
In the first place, this isn't a blog. It's a novel presented in serials of three chapters each. So the "posts" in this installment are actually Chapters 1 - 3 of a novel in progress.
Second, I don't interrupt the text in my novels with video shorts, photos, memes, etc. Picture books are in a different section of the store from my novels.
If by "I only looked at two" you mean you didn't read the text but only glanced at the "wall of text," in my personal opinion you're missing the point. But again, to each his own..
No, Harvey. Not you. (I didn't make myself clear.) I was talking about Ms. Lee's blog posts. They're a wall of text with no spacing between paragraphs. There aren't even any para indents.
Ah. Okay. My fault. Substack said your comment was on Your Daily Serial. That's why I thought you were talking about the installment that went live there this morning.
I was gonna run your comment and my response in tomorrow's TNDJ. I hate wasting such a good spat. :-) I'll belay that. Thanks for clarifying, Peter.
I knew Lee was an extremely prolific writer. I thought I'd check the link and take a look at her blog posts. After pulling down the first one, and thinking it was a formatting failure (which we all know are prone to happening), I looked at another post. Same wall. I couldn't begin to read either of them.
I wonder if she does that to get her blog readers to buy the book. Anyway, whatever.
My apologies for not leaving you with a post for a "good spat". On the other hand, something on how not to format a blog post, especially if one is posting a preview of their work to sell their latest product, might be in order. Or not.
Ha. No worries at all, my friend. Actually, I've never considered doing a post on formatting posts. I guess it never occurred to me anyone would do that. :-)
Yep, I agree. The lady who initially told me about her said she sends the first chapter to her readers in an email when she announces a new release. I hope the email isn't like the blog post on her site, but I dunno.
Call me Mr. Negative if you must, but when I see a wall of text on a "blog", I close it and move on. All the posts appear to be similarly formatted. (I only looked at two.)
Thanks for the comment. That's fine. (shrug) To each his or her own. If I may...
In the first place, this isn't a blog. It's a novel presented in serials of three chapters each. So the "posts" in this installment are actually Chapters 1 - 3 of a novel in progress.
Second, I don't interrupt the text in my novels with video shorts, photos, memes, etc. Picture books are in a different section of the store from my novels.
If by "I only looked at two" you mean you didn't read the text but only glanced at the "wall of text," in my personal opinion you're missing the point. But again, to each his own..
No, Harvey. Not you. (I didn't make myself clear.) I was talking about Ms. Lee's blog posts. They're a wall of text with no spacing between paragraphs. There aren't even any para indents.
Ah. Okay. My fault. Substack said your comment was on Your Daily Serial. That's why I thought you were talking about the installment that went live there this morning.
I was gonna run your comment and my response in tomorrow's TNDJ. I hate wasting such a good spat. :-) I'll belay that. Thanks for clarifying, Peter.
I knew Lee was an extremely prolific writer. I thought I'd check the link and take a look at her blog posts. After pulling down the first one, and thinking it was a formatting failure (which we all know are prone to happening), I looked at another post. Same wall. I couldn't begin to read either of them.
I wonder if she does that to get her blog readers to buy the book. Anyway, whatever.
My apologies for not leaving you with a post for a "good spat". On the other hand, something on how not to format a blog post, especially if one is posting a preview of their work to sell their latest product, might be in order. Or not.
Ha. No worries at all, my friend. Actually, I've never considered doing a post on formatting posts. I guess it never occurred to me anyone would do that. :-)
Yep, I agree. The lady who initially told me about her said she sends the first chapter to her readers in an email when she announces a new release. I hope the email isn't like the blog post on her site, but I dunno.