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Sources: * Remember that different countries and cultures use different conventions. The great style manuals differ on many of the points of punctuation, so nothing is set in stone here. ...

iv. All caps: Sometimes people use caps in their work to denote shouting. This is fine, but must never be overdone. Caps are only very rarely necessary, and are a ...

iii. Underline: Nope, not in a literary work. Like bold, you can use it in titles, but it really has no place in the average literary work.

ii. Italics: Italics are more common. They can be used … 1.) For emphasis. I couldn’t believe that he had chosen a yellow bow-tie. He said what ? 2.) Thoughts ...

IV) TYPOGRAPHY i. Bold: Bold is never used in common literary writing as a device. It can be used to format headings or titles, but rarely, if ever, occurs in ...

iii. Third person: This is the form in which most books are written. It is written out of a “he/she” perspective. The narrator can be omniscient (knows everything happening everywhere) ...

ii. Second person: This person is very rare. It is written out of the perspective of a “you”. You usually find it in interactive books like the “Choose Your Own ...

III) GRAMMATICAL PERSON i. First person: When you write in the first person, you write out of the perspective of a “me”. This is most useful for showing the emotions ...

ii. Tense Usage: In writing a novel, you will probably mainly be using the past simple or present simple tense. Writing a novel in the present is invitingly simple. More ...

II) TENSES i. Most common tenses: 1.) Present simple: This is exactly what is happening now. However, dependent on context, it may also indicate habitual activity, e.g. "We go to ...

xiii. Capital letters: 1.) Capitalize the first letter in a sentence. 2.) Capitalize the pronoun I. 3.) Capitalize names of people, countries and nationalities, religions, deities and holy writings, b

xii. Ellipses: 1.) Bet you don’t know how to make a real ellipsis! Nobody can agree—some style manuals prefer a space between each dot; others call for no spaces. The ...

xi. Parenthesis: 1.) Use parentheses () to include de-emphasized material or extra information: a. When the parenthetical is inside a sentence, use no punctuation to offset it, except for a ...

x. Quotation marks: 1.) Quotation marks are always used in pairs to enclose words or sentences. They can be used to quote the names of songs, novels, poems etc., usually ...

ix. Exclamation mark: 1.) Exclamation marks are usually avoided in prose except in dialogue, and has been described by F. Scott Fitzgerald as “laughing at your own jokes”. Consider: He ...