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Neatness

If you read some of my stories, I actually start the beginning of my chapter with an indent. I also put another indent when there's another sequence in the same chapter. What's an indent?

Example:

           There was a wild look in your eyes when you saw your childhood friend. She stands there with a smile on her face as she waves at you warmly. "I'm back after all these years!," she laughs out softly. You begin to rush over to her, embracing her in a tight hug. The feeling of emptiness seemed to disappear.

Do you see there's a huge space before the beginning of that short paragraph? I mean, it's not something you need to do, but I feel like it's neater and it helps. I was always taught in literature class to put a space at the first sentence (of every paragraph actually lol).

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 I know the wattpad community has different people from all over the world and English may not be their first language, but please do keep this in mind: Put spaces after every period. You do not ever keep your sentences stuck together like there's honey binding them.

Sentences that ends with a punctuation like this.Cannot stick together.Like this.

You don't know how many fanfiction I've actually read that were like this and I immediately had to back out lol. It just makes it hard to read and I'm actually dyslexic, so it becomes ten times worse to read something like that.. =-=' More like a struggle.

Also, literature class tells you a paragraph = five sentences, yes? They can be a little more than five, but once a section becomes 'thick', it's time to form another paragraph. Do NOT create a paragraph-less story lol. (casually extracts something from one of my stories)

You playfully roll your eyes at your boyfriend as he nervously chuckles, but you turn back around to head to the entrance of the haunted house maze. It's not that you were the bravest person out there, you still got scared by everything that jumped at you. It was rather you enjoyed the feeling and laughed about it afterwards. Though, sometimes Terushima had said other wise.

He follows close behind you as the two of you step into the small maze. His hands grip onto your arms as you squint your eyes through the darkness. "Holy shit, where's the decent lighting in here..." you mumble as you extend your arms out to feel anything in front of you.

If those two paragraphs were together, it'd look a little clumpy and too much. Begin to learn how to depict when to 'open the next paragraph' to let it become neater for your audience.