>>56205784I do advocate changing the way I write for my audience, they're the intended audience so of course I want to orient my writing to them. I'm not one of the "my precious" types of artists.
I don't like using quoted speech from characters' thoughts generally, since they're already narrating in third person and it feels clunky. I don't think I ever have the characters refer to themselves as "I" outside dialogue.
>>56206449In reality I don't like how close together line breaks are so I use paragraph breaks between most-all lines. But on AO3, paragraph breaks are gigantic (they're a full empty line added in between two paragraphs) so I have a CSS to make them smaller. The text indent is good but it actually looks quite bad on dialogue lines so I'll probably remove it in the future. Also I use double paragraph breaks between unrelated concepts, triple for a small space in time, a line break for a time-skip or change of scenery, and three asterisks for changing perspective. I didn't think these were distracting ever, I generally have texts laid out in a way that I think can breathe. Maybe it's shit but the only time I've heard about it is some people having browser extension to remove empty space in AO3 stories.
So autism!
