Rex-Start with the ABCs and let your imagination completely free. It will create something useful for your current project or a future project. Send the editor on a long vacation. The first draft is messy and can be cleaned up when the story is complete.
dogpack saving 4premium+ - Thank you!! I'll keep this in mind:) I'm trying to keep the sexual tension going but I feel like I'm just repeating myself over and over
Two ways. One is to format the word document carefully in the source--either put a space between your paragraphs, or set the formatting to "first line indent", and set the line spacing in the word document to double. This can be tricky--sometimes (often) Word doesn't play that nice with WDC.
The other way is to strip formatting out of the Word document altogether--save it in Arial 12 point font, leave a blank line between paragraphs, and when you upload it to WDC select "simple" formatting. That lets you look at the writing ML in the box below to make sure it's right. (This is normally what I do.)
When I first began to use Writing.com, a million years ago, the way I did it was this: copy the words from the Word document, paste them into the upload box on Writing.com, and then go through manually--putting a space between paragraphs and adding in italics by hand. It was tedious, but it did serve as an extra chance to proofread the text, and it made me rethink whether all my instances of italics were really necessary.
Yet another option - the one I use - is to use a basic text document to create your work and then copy/paste it into WDC. Alternatively, you can use Word to create, but then move it to the text document and then to WDC. Either way, you shouldn't have strange formatting issues.
check it out!! (When I uploaded the doc to here some of the spaces didn't stay how I put it, so if a few sentences seem cramped that's why. I have no idea how to fix it lol) anywho rex out rawr
Do you want the reader not to know the character is depressed until a certain point in the story, or are you just looking for ways to weave the depression symptoms in subtly to the prose? If you just want to weave the symptoms in subtly, I'd just have the characters not really add up the symptoms--just experience them. After all, especially in first person, you can write things like "none of the things I normally did for fun sounded appealing at all--even ice cream sounded like too much effort to get up and eat. Ugh. All I wanted to do was go back to bed." That's at least two depression symptoms. If you wanted to add in another one, you could make the character have a self-critical thought there, too.
If you want to hide the characters' depression from the reader, look up "masking" and the ways people with depression try to hide it from others, and have your characters do that.
Raven - Thank you:) The thing I'm having trouble with is that her depressed will be shown through my main character's POV so she won't be written in first person even though that would be easier to write.
Rex - I would advise bookmarking the writingML help link jeremy gave you. Someone gave it to me when I was first on and it is still in my bookmark bar for easy reference, I'm a ten year veteran.
I' m currently in the process of trying to finish I book I started 2 years ago and um- my main characters is a dude so I'm trying my best to write in a dudes perspective of romance and boy is that harder then I thought it would be. But what did I expect? I'm not a dude😂 #thestruggleisreal rawr
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-Start with the ABCs and let your imagination completely free. It will create something useful for your current project or a future project. Send the editor on a long vacation. The first draft is messy and can be cleaned up when the story is complete.
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