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lil  ·  4227 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today's Writing Prompt: "Heaven Is a Corner Store/That Went Out of Business"

hi djw, I just saw your comment now about line lengths. The hubski program did something to my line lengths and original stanza divisions - I still can't get it to handle the spacing the way I'd like and I have no time to fix it. The program seems to have changed other people's line lengths as well. Next writing prompt, I'll have a Poet Alert - and suggest people check their poem a week later and see what it looks like. I appreciate your comments.





thenewgreen  ·  4227 days ago  ·  link  ·  

mk, check this out. We all had our submissions posted with line breaks and it appeared as such at first. It seems an update must have shifted them to a paragraph format. Odd looking poetry. Any way to ensure this will not happen moving forward?

mk  ·  4227 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I know what caused it. I'll fix it soon. Pretty I'll ATM. :/

lil  ·  4224 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks! Floatbox seems to know how to keep his verse intact. Maybe he cut and pasted it from another file. Time for a new writing prompt anyway.

Floatbox  ·  4224 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I noticed the formatting problem as well. You can go back in editing and put four spaces before each line to get the effect fancy courier effect. That trick works in reddit too!

lil  ·  4227 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    mk, check this out
the capital letters in the middle of TNG's lines and sirwfc718 is a hint to where the lines originally ended. BLOB_CASTLE's poem has also lost it's original structure. I don't recall what wrenauld's poem looked like originally. I looked back at the past work submitted to past #todayswritingprompt and all my lines were turned into paragraphs... but not everyone's. I'll start a new one soon and see if it stays stable.