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| Greetings from Heddy of the Desert. Summer in Arizona is well-known for its bright sun and summer heat. Today is working on its high of 110 degrees. I agreed to let my husband of 45 years move me here - his preference to live somewhere warm in his retirement. So here I am, in the hottest place in the nation, second only to Death Valley. In 2008, I published a book entitled, The Warrior Wife Combat Training Manual. It is clearly a "first work" product, but I have helped many women reframe their attitudes toward their marriages, to bring authentic love through a values-centered relationship. Id like to write a second edition because life and love is always evolving. I've been looking for a writing community and its nice to meet you. |
Awe come on ~Brian K Compton~  You can answer questions too. We all can. It's only fair we asked them when we were starting out. I would add https://www.writing.com/main/tools/action/writingml to the helpful pages, sorry don't have the usual link. |
It's okay, Ugly Christmas Sox  , I've been dishin it with ~Brian K Compton~ tonight - it's only fair he dishes it back  Just so long as we don't scare off Heddy! Don't worry, Heddy, I'm still a newbie. I've been working hard, so I'm a little giddy and have been teasing BK Compton, Esquire (his name's changed three times since I began writing this!) tonight. We're all usually pretty sane, normal folks. If you haven't discovered it for yourself, you can click on anyone's "handle" - the name you can change and has a briefcase next to it - and you'll get a dropdown menu that you can click into that person's portfolio and check out what they've written and posted, look at their bio, etc. Cheers! |
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If you use the little gear at the top right of your item, you can edit it. I recommend going down to the section "+ Advanced" and clicking on that word. This will show you the option "paragraph spacing" where you can set it to double space paragraphs. It will be a bit easier to read your text without you having to manually add extra line breaks.
Of course, if you don't want to do that, that's fine too
And - again only if you want to - you can increase the font size by putting {size:3.5} or {size:4} at the start of the text and {/size} at the end. The default size is 3, but I think the Times font comes up a little smaller.
The article just needs a little touching up - looks like you've got some odd characters showing up as artifacts from whatever word processing program you used to create the article. If you click on the thing that looks like a gear on the top right of your article's screen, it'll give you a drop-down menu where you can select "Edit." From there, you can go into the text and make whatever changes you'd like to, including formatting (see next paragraph). At the bottom of the screen, you'll have the opportunity to save and view, save and edit, or complete edit. I usually save and view so that I can look at it first to make sure things look right. Save and edit is good if you're editing a long document and you don't want to lose your edits if something were to happen, like losing your internet connection or somesuch. Complete edit will just save what you've done and take you back to the main screen of your portfolio.
To increase the text size, you can select the text you want to change, and in the row of little boxes above the editing box (the formatting toolbar) click on the box that has three S's of different sizes - this will let you increase the size. I usually use 4 because it's a nice size for those of us wearing reading glasses, but not too big as to be obtrusive. The cursive "F" next to size box is for changing the font. The others should be pretty self-explanatory, but you can click on them to see what they do. Just make sure to select the text you want to apply the formatting to before you hit the formatting button to make it happen. You'll get used to what the coding looks like and how it works. I hope that'll help you for now. You might also ask around in "Writing.Com General Discussion"
Way to go getting your first portfolio item up!