Mail sent from Hotmail, Yahoo and other types of free mail addresses may be automatically filtered out in attempt to eliminate spam and other offensive messages.
If your story goes on longer than a page (80 colums by 24 rows of text), then be aware that I probably won't read much past the first page.
Sending me multiple copies of the same message (or multiple messages that say the same thing) only clogs my inbox, which takes me longer to get to your message and generally tends to annoy me.