[Critique Group 2] concerns about formatting being distorted through emailing

[Abbie Taylor]

This is why I always attach poems when I send them. I had a similar issue with another member who submitted an acrostic poem for one of our critique sessions. It didn't come out in the email message as an acrostic. Since she'd written acrostics before, I figured it was a formatting issue, so I emailed her, and she sent it to me as an attachment so I could include it in the compilation with the proper formatting.

However, some email programs somehow mess up formatting when work is copied and pasted. This is why our regular list guidelines say that if formatting can be improved by including a pice as an attachment, then please do so. However, I'm pretty sure Valerie isn't able to open attachments with her net by phone system, so it's a good idea to both paste and attach the poem.

I won't have time to resend the compilation, so you all might want to hold onto the attachment and read it if you can. Otherwise, you can concentrate on the content in your critiques. In the future, I can send compilations as attachments as well as paste them in the body of the email.   

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On Oct 23, 2016 8:44 PM, James <jamesstarfire at gmail.com> wrote:
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>  Hello Group 2,
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> I noticed that in the email sent by Abbie, the line breaks in my piece were not correctly presented. Consequently I looked at the e-mail I sent to Group 2 on 10-14-16 and the version pasted inside the email had the same problem. This is rather disturbing. I would suggest for all who can to view the attachment as it seems to have preserved the correct formatting. I am not sure who can view attachments but the pasted version is not what I chose to submit for critique. Consequently I am resending the attachment. The piece begins:
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> With water diamonds sparkling in her eyes
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> fell Guardian of Morning, through twilight autumn skies.
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> There is then a line break and two more lines. Then another line break and a six line verse followed by a line break.
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> I would appreciate feedback if you received the piece as I just described the beginning structure.
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> Brad