some basics

It might have occurred to you that “some basics” should be capitalized. Everyone knows that every beginning letter of a title must be capitalized.

Well, you won’t get far thinking like that.

In my opinion, English teachers’ only purpose is to teach you how to become an English teacher. The best authors will barely acknowledge that grammatical rules exist.

I personally like to use rules, but for dramatical needs, I find it better to sometimes ignore these rules. Would Night have been suck an amazing novel had Elie added a verb in every sentence?

In many cases, it’s definitely better to ignore grammatical rules.

Eriee frantically grasped the railing as her chin hammered the steps… footsteps echoed above… she beat down the ebony steps soaked with blood, her candle flickering out her last advantage; she ran and ran and ran through the dark steps, stopping for mere seconds to listen to the footsteps… the footsteps… but all she heard was her own heart fading into the misty cloaking of the night and fainted on the spot, listening to the blood pumping through her skull and a triumphant shriek from the only light source, the stairs.

So please, don’t kill yourself for paragraph-long run-ons. Use the following list when adding emotion or drama.

Use series of run-on sentences when building intensity. This is a great way to glue your readers’ noses to the book during the climax. Don’t overuse this.

Put a lonely noun followed by a period to create anticipation.

While capitalization is important in books and more formal writings, ignoring capitalization rules is good for branding and making your product appear neater. The iPod is a great example.

Don’t finish the sentence. Leave your reader hanging by ending chapters and cutting off dialogs with an ellipse or a hyphen. If someone was pushed off the cliff, don’t pour out the fun by vividly describing how he splattered the earth with blood using your best figurative language. When you’ve built intensity using run-ons, end them quick with an ellipse and flash away to some other place and another character. However, make sure you return to the previous plot.

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