01-11-2016, 08:03 AM
Huh?
I am not sure what distinction you are making between format and structure. What I mean is do you consider the unusual spacing the structure or the format?
That was my first response, and I actually had written a lot more, then I realized it was all one big acrostic. You'll likely have trouble getting extensive comments; while I am really new here, most people at workshop-type sites have a genetic and marked dislike for acrostics. Sad to say, I tend that way myself. You'd probably be better off stating up front and clearly that "Hey guys, this is an acrostic I am trying to do for a personal special occasion." This way, the response when it is noticed won't be "F***er tricked me into reading an acrostic" followed by a trip to this thread.
Maybe this is betraying old fashioned gender bias, but I'll leave it to the woman to judge whether the potential romantic cuteness under the circumstances outweighs the gimmicky-ness of it, especially with that day in February approaching.
That said, you have a problem with some minor inconsistency in layout that I think is due to the problems of lining things up with proportionally-spaced fonts. If you look in the formatting controls, there is probably a tag for displaying text in a fixed-width typewriter style, so you could line things up perfectly. Still, given what I see, I am not sure how much that will help: each little phrase varies so much in length, it just comes across as a bit of a mess to me. Perhaps with more vertical spacing it could work. I'd need to see it.
I wasn't looking at content.
Quote:I am not sure how this will be formatted, but the structure is very important.
I am not sure what distinction you are making between format and structure. What I mean is do you consider the unusual spacing the structure or the format?
That was my first response, and I actually had written a lot more, then I realized it was all one big acrostic. You'll likely have trouble getting extensive comments; while I am really new here, most people at workshop-type sites have a genetic and marked dislike for acrostics. Sad to say, I tend that way myself. You'd probably be better off stating up front and clearly that "Hey guys, this is an acrostic I am trying to do for a personal special occasion." This way, the response when it is noticed won't be "F***er tricked me into reading an acrostic" followed by a trip to this thread.
Maybe this is betraying old fashioned gender bias, but I'll leave it to the woman to judge whether the potential romantic cuteness under the circumstances outweighs the gimmicky-ness of it, especially with that day in February approaching.
That said, you have a problem with some minor inconsistency in layout that I think is due to the problems of lining things up with proportionally-spaced fonts. If you look in the formatting controls, there is probably a tag for displaying text in a fixed-width typewriter style, so you could line things up perfectly. Still, given what I see, I am not sure how much that will help: each little phrase varies so much in length, it just comes across as a bit of a mess to me. Perhaps with more vertical spacing it could work. I'd need to see it.
I wasn't looking at content.