Let me start off with two long clues:
There is nothing here560378
there is a secret Text yo^u^ mus4t decipher from my writing. scan every word carefully so+that+you don't m3iss any information. {go}od luck.
There is nothing here342013
there is tHe va5lley(or was a valley9), In the valley Sings a swin*g a(n)d sings a songberd. the bird that sung was a swan,
There is nothing here392050
nExt to tHe valley was a frog pond, the frog pond was large, i like that frog pond,
There is nothing here907768
then there was nothing more,
Hints:
Hint 1
There is a very common code in use here, beware of the red herrings!
Hint 2
Two words from the first line are very important
Hint 3
The answer is a single word
Hint 4
Ignore what the cypher tells you to
nExt to tHe valley
), it most likely has a meaning. In that regard I hope there aren't a lot of typos/grammar errors in the text. :) By which I mean, are there reasons for: (part 1) The wordscan
not starting with a capitalS
at the start of a sentence; (part 2) The wordIn
starting with a capitalI
after a comma andthe
not starting with a capitalT
at the start of a sentence; (part 3)i like
not being with a capitalI
; etc. $\endgroup$