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[DarkPleasures]

When writing for Literotica, how many lines of text (in an MS Word document) paragraph looks visually appealing in a Lit paragraph? (IE: When I only wrote for myself, and saved my writings on the computer and/or printed out a hard copy, most of my paragraphs were between four to seven lines long and they visually looked good that way.)

I know because of the web format paragraphs tend to come out more differently on Lit. (Usually smaller.) Like, right now, my first paragraph here is five lines long, but once I hit SUBMIT it will look smaller. I also know it will still look different based on people's computers/tablets/etc.


I guess the bedrock of my question is would seven to ten lines (MS Word) look "normal" or visually appealing within a Lit story?





(Hope my rambling made sense!)

 

[lovecraft68]

When writing for Literotica, how many lines of text (in an MS Word document) paragraph looks visually appealing in a Lit paragraph? (IE: When I only wrote for myself, and saved my writings on the computer and/or printed out a hard copy, most of my paragraphs were between four to seven lines long and they visually looked good that way.)

I know because of the web format paragraphs tend to come out more differently on Lit. (Usually smaller.) Like, right now, my first paragraph here is five lines long, but once I hit SUBMIT it will look smaller. I also know it will still look different based on people's computers/tablets/etc.


I guess the bedrock of my question is would seven to ten lines (MS Word) look "normal" or visually appealing within a Lit story?


(Hope my rambling made sense!)

Break them up. I'm not an expert on formatting and can't give you a technical explanation, but here is what I find with mine.

I don't generally write long paragraphs and in word they are manageable sections of text, but once I paste the story into lit and preview it? They seem like huge blocks of text so I end up breaking many of them up for lit whereas they are fine for converting to e-books

 

[DarkPleasures]

I was reading a different thread in this board (where someone asked how many words created a Lit page) and saw the best advice there, also, was to LOOK at the body of text when in the PREVIEW stage of story submitting. Seems that's good advice for my question as well.