The Fire And The Storm - Metric Pro Edition: Fiction, Dragons, Elves, Unicorns, Magic - Plot & Excerpts
he growled.If a sentence is already italicized bcause it’s a telepathic communication, any words in that sentence that are communicated with extra intensity will be indicated by being non-italicized, for example;“That’s all a bunch of crap, and you know it.” she psionically repremanded him.I use ALL CAPITALS occasionally to indicate yelling or great loudness, whether the words are spoken or telepathic; volume and intensity being distinct qualities.In this story, many common words are also the names of magic spells, such as Sending, Flight, and Speaking, or have traditionally had highly religious connotations like The Source, and those words are capitalized to indicate this.Since languages began, they have constantly changed and evolved. The advents of written language and printing both slowed language evolution, but it still goes on. Sometimes the resulting conventions that make up ‘proper English’ don’t make a lot of sense, and they are slightly different in every English-speaking country. In most of these cases I’ve caved and used the conventions anyway in order to avoid irritating my readers who are sensitive about these things, like writing ‘seven thousand, three hundred and fifty-five’. It makes no sense that the compound words for numbers up to one hundred are hyphenated, like fifty-five, and the others aren’t, like three thousand. But I go with it anyway.However, there are some English conventions that I absolutely refuse to follow because they distort the emotional connotations of the writing. I’ll point out the most common one here so that you’ll know that it’s not a mistake; I’m doing it on purpose. If a quoted sentence is a question or an exclamation, it is conventionally written as a complete sentence within quotations, for example;“Get down!”
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