title: The LionheART Guide to Formatting
author:  Karen Perkins 
description: "As writers we are wordsmiths, creating a world, characters and story with language, and punctuation is one of the tools of language. To ignore it, except for rare exceptions, to me is like Monet painting with badly mixed colours, or Michelangelo attempting to sculpt using a hammer when a chisel is needed.<br /><br />"Words are what we do, language is our medium and punctuation is our tool. When I write, I want to take my readers to my world, to join my characters on their journey, to experience their challenges, traumas and desires. I want them to take this journey with me, without noticing the individual words, full stops or commas. I want them to lose themselves in the story, not in the mechanics of it, and this will only happen if all the elements are right."
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  ![cover](resources/_cover_.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  body {font-size:14; font-family:times, arial, garamond, helvetica, times;
  text-align:justify}
  
  
  p {font-size:14; font-family:times, arial, garamond, helvetica, times; text-
  align:justify}
  
  
  pre {font-size:12; font-style: italic; font-family:times, arial, courier;
  text-align:center}
  
  
  pre.poem {font-size:12; font-style: italic; font-family:times, arial, courier;
  text-align:center}
  
  
  
  
  
  h3 {font-size:14; font-weight: bold; font-family:courier; text-align:center}
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # Diary of Samuel Pepys, March 1666/67
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Samuel Pepys
  
  
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  March 1st. Up, it being very cold weather again after a good deal
  
  
  of warm summer weather, and to the office, where I settled to do much
  
  
  business to-day. By and by sent for to Sir G. Carteret to discourse
  
  
  of the business of the Navy, and our wants, and the b