Aren’t they wonderful? I’m an extremely aural person, so I tend to put a lot of effort into reproducing textually the way my sentences sound in my head. I just found myself hitting the asterisk key rather a lot and started wondering if it might be wearing on people—if it felt like I was forcing their reading of the text.
Silly self-obsessed stylistic question here:
Would anyone be willing to tell me whether I’m badly overusing italics and em-dashes in my writing?
I think you’re fine—but then I adore em-dashes.
Aren’t they wonderful? I’m an extremely aural person, so I tend to put a lot of effort into reproducing textually the way my sentences sound in my head. I just found myself hitting the asterisk key rather a lot and started wondering if it might be wearing on people—if it felt like I was forcing their reading of the text.
I don’t think so.