I'm just reading a story with a weird characteristic: every paragraph is centered!
What kind of weirdo would do that? I suppose I should not impute peculiar motives to new authors, but hey, they ought to take the trouble to set out their stories in a professional way. Sometimes I get the feeling that kids write stories for their high school magazines in a certain way that passes for 'creative' when they're in school, and continue to write the same way professionally.
Quite honestly, I have to stop thinking that LGBTQRSV++ authors writing e-books are professionals, exactly. I can honestly say this because when I wrote my first story for Smashwords, I was far from being a professional, except in the sense that my grammar and syntax might have been fairly good. I had to fix up almost every story at least once, and re-upload it. And I did not feel comfortable letting any of my friends look at my writing, precisely because I was on the queer spectrum myself.
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