A Capital Offence
Creating a Personalized Voice in Writing
Any writer will tell you, the most important thing you can ever do for yourself in writing is to develop your own personal style and voice. A style and voice your readers will come to expect and appreciate as specifically, and hopefully uniquely, yours
I understand completely, I really do…well, as much as I am able to empathize over a situation, or rather a conundrum, I have unwittingly created, but I do understand…completely.
My high school English teacher used to nearly pull his hair out (what he had, anyway), over my persistent use of what he termed Random Capitalizations in my writing, and, try though I might, I could never quite make him understand that the capitals were anything but random. I’ve always used them when writing poetry; it’s a mechanism I employ without being entirely aware of it, really, since I’ve utilized it for so long now (er, I mean, for a few years now…, yeah, that sounds much better!) I’m no doubt going to continue.
A-hem,… some of you may have raised the same questions as my English teacher had so many..er, those few years ago, so I thought it might be vastly appreciated (or at least helpful) for me to give a brief explanation so I won’t appear entirely without grammar-sense.
