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I have a story with several characters. I've decided that I won't give them names, but refer to them as their titles. For example, the grocer. The cleaner. The officer. Currently I capitalize ...
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System
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2019-12-08T04:25:45Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T04:25:45Z (over 4 years ago)
I have a story with several characters. I've decided that I won't give them names, but refer to them as their titles. For example, the grocer. The cleaner. The officer. Currently I capitalize these names: the Grocer met the Cleaner and they talked about the Officer. I do this because I think it makes it easy to intuitively determine that the individual is that, instead of just any grocer / cleaner / officer, and also because I think it's an interesting creative device. Is it wrong to do this? Would I be better off not capitalizing in this way?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2015-07-08T14:42:45Z (almost 9 years ago)
Original score: 5