Text messages in Stories

I recently submitted my first story, but was rejected. So I am looking to edit my story and resubmit.

The reason for my rejection was that I used < text > to indicate text messages. I looked at a sample of others' writing and saw:

Person1: text
Person2: text

I was hoping to to find symbols similar to quotations showing dialog for texting. But not symbols used in normal righting like parenthesis, dashes or quotations?

Any suggestions?

Also, in my story I did use <3 in my texts. Is that allowable?

Certain symbols are ways to write scripts in a different computer language that could pose as harmful for either the computer that hosts it, and/or the computers that access it, or it is the script the program uses already and the characters used create errors in transcription.

That said, the types of characters and symbols allowed by the story posting program are limited to stop anybody from doing anything nefarious.

I get it, you want to do something creative. Something that you haven't seen in other stories or perhaps you just have a vision of what you want to see in your story.

Try reading this, I think it will help you formulate your own way to stylistically create your own work on your own terms.

Note: I would not use the heart emoticon try to remember that you are writing a story opposed to actually texting to someone.
In that instance, I would write:

After Chloe finished writing a text message to her lover, she added a little heart emoticon and sent it with a flourish.​

Italics?

This was covered a while back in the AH. Try a search.

Here ya go. Used 'texting' as the search, probably more.
Try searching only specific forums, like AH or the Editor's forum.

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=941369&highlight=texting

LWulf: Thanks for the help. I do recall my HTML basics, but hadn't realized that the editors took my .doc file and turned it into HTML code. Guess I should have realized that since it's the internet and still requires HTML coding.

PayDay: The link was excellent and very helpful. Decided on &lt and &gt, which I guess is HTML code for < and >. This was my original intent, but wouldn't have found it without your helpful link.

nosliwec said:

PayDay: The link was excellent and very helpful. Decided on &lt and &gt, which I guess is HTML code for < and >. This was my original intent, but wouldn't have found it without your helpful link.

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Don't thank me, thank the search link

Apologies. It's hard to tell the level of understanding someone has when they ask a question. I didn't mean to dummy it down excessively. Sometimes you can tell how much they know simply by the question they ask, sometimes no.

I'm glad you found out what you wanted to know (if not from me, then someone else).