Emphasis Formatting

slitheringink:

theticklishpear:

An author, teacher, and mentor of mine once told me that I should be able to eliminate 95% of emphasis formatting in any piece I write if I have successfully written a sentence that can hold its own.

This individual told me this at a time in my life when I thought most of what I wrote was gold. I almost never edited or redrafted anything I wrote, and almost always got top grades on it all. I was one of the lucky ones. One of those people who drafted and wrot...