The Show Must Go On

A single man moves in next door to exhibitionist mother and daughter.

Some time you use the "to denote speech" and sometimes you don't. It is very confusing.

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The way it was originally written, the first person speaking would be in quotes and the second person without quotes to make a smooth conversation back and forth without a ton of I said, She replied.

The first person telling of the story or descriptions were always in a separate line or section.

This was all fine as originally written, but It went from my e-mail window I write in to Wordpad to Documents to The Mystic Wolf resulting in huge gaps in the structure of the story. All other places I have submitted stories was a simple Copy and Paste! Don't know what the issue is. I agree it doesn't look or read very good.

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This is why it is never a good idea to rely on formatting to convey meaning.  Quotation marks are more than standard for dialogue, they're expected.  Not using them is just going to confuse the reader.  Sure, they will eventually get used to it, if they push through long enough to do so... but why make their life more difficult in the first place?

Eric Storm