Just want to share my thoughts.

Yesterday I bought a book from local bookstore. The title is "Paranoid" and I thought it'd be worth to read. The plot revolves around a schizophrenic girl who thinks she "lost" her boyfriend in a spooky gas station. Then trails of spooky experience comes after. Actually it is a nice storyline. Sadly, the conversations were poorly built. The writer also lacks typesetting, the font choice is poor, the spacing looks like it only wants to make the book look thicker, the capitalization is wrong, punctuation misplacement, and bad spelling.

So, the point is that writing is not only focusing in completing your plot and writing the story to the very end but it also deals with your typesetting.

Say I'm meticulous, but I believe typesetting helps you bringing up a writing that is comfortable for your readers to read. These days there a load of fonts to be picked from, so why it always is Calibri? Why not TNR, when you're trying to give a formal look, or Bodoni or even the good ol' Garamond? It's just... sometimes Calibri just doesn't look right.

Or like Harry Potter, uses Book Antiqua for the main text (here all the books were printed in Book Antiqua). Maybe justified alignment looks fine and organized because it makes your text aligned to left and right, but sometimes it's not wise to simply justifying your text blindly. Sometimes, left-alignment is much better because when justified some texts      would       just      look         this        way because it was only 6 words a line when it's supposedly 12 words per line. This is kinda annoying so try hyphenate if you don't want the messy left-aligned texts.

So when you're done with the typesetting, move your on to your spelling.

In the book I found texts written like this:

....." Gebi had her mind refusing to colerate.

Can't help but laughing pitifully.

Maybe this writer needs to refine her writings before writing a book. She was trying to say "correlate" but failed an attempt. Colerate makes me think of cholera. So about spelling, maybe you can take a wise note here; when you're in need to write down some jargons, be it medical jargons, like schizophrenia, aenesthesia, etc., or even some Korean words, try typing it correctly. It doesn't take you hours to correct it. When you write, you do research. You don't type blind information you get from gossiping, and so does these jargons.

In the end I lost my interest to continue reading the book. Well I think this applies to AFF writers too. It could be just me who thinks typesetting matters a lot but I am sure I am not the only one. Try making your writing comfortable to read. As for AFF, maybe blind justification can't be a total turn-off since it's not really seen, but, maybe you need to re-pick your fonts. Try using Arial instead of Comic Sans, which is a totally turn-off for me. Comic Sans for a writing is completely a NO. Looks playful, shallow, and everything. The name is Comic, lol. So forget that Comic Sans.

Instead, try Georgia or TNR. They suit much better for a "formal" writing. Oh, and the size. Size matters, lol. You don't go with a wall of text in 10 pixel/8 points in font size. So find the size comfortable for you, it can't be this tiny or this gigantic.

Lastly. COLOURS. Yes, colours. Mostly it's in black or in default colour AFF has (it's not black) because it's the way the texts are printed in books. So don't mess with the colours. Use darker colours, not the bright ones because you're writing on a white background. I've read fictions with sort of this bright colour in this font. How sad when your potential reader backs off just because your texts are almost unseen. So, yeah, this ends my rants about typesetting and such. Say I'm meticulous because I am one, but hell this matters. :P