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Continue readingI’m writing this post because Cassia Hall has encouraged me, so please direct any complaints to her. We had a discussion about the importance of book formatting and punctuation in our tiny writers’ chat this week. The conclusion was: authors should learn about negative space. Using the right punctuation allows writers to create a negative space in writing. The variety of commas, colons, semi-colons and empty dashes makes the text more visually appealing. It also gives a more interest to your story. The different punctuation mark sounds differently. The time that crosses through those pauses is different, and when the author strategically learns to use commas, colons, semi-colons, and em-dashes, they make the story sing. One more point to mention about negative space—it’s breaking the paragraphs, scenes and chapters to adjust to the pace of the story. Books with paragraphs as long as ten rows always terrified me. Even if it’s spice romance, the block of text makes it equivalent to deep philosophical work, requiring too much effort. Conversely, shorter paragraphs increase the pace of the story. I have dev edited one war scene where all my suggestions were to put each sentence on the separate paragraph, to show how quick and chaotic everything was. If you can’t afford an editor, at least consider the proper formatting—Your readers need the space to breathe.
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