People (mostly my editor) complain about my capitalization of magic-related terms. (Push and Pull in Mistborn.) I learned from RJ.
I’ll admit, keeping track of which terms are upper case while writing these can be hard. Warder, for example, is capitalized.
Ha. I love @GrammarGirl. She says: “Refer your editor to the section on capitalizing Platonic ideals: http://j.mp/18T09Z
When younger, I thought Rand’s first Channeling was lightning in Four Kings. It wasn’t until later that I caught the Bela thing.
No, ‘channeling’ is NOT capitalized. :)
That’s the one I most think should be. We always have to search/replace it after I write a book.
Why did you use the word ‘magic’ in Towers of Midnight ? It never showed up in WoT before that.
RJ used the word a couple of times in the series.
Did he? Because I remember being jarred out of the narrative when I saw it mentioned in Towers of Midnight . Seemed really incongruous.
Yeah, a couple of times. Mostly in earlier books. In Aviendha’s vision, though, it was supposed to be incongruous.
This is (presumably) many, many years in the future. Language and usage has changed.
The word ‘magic’ was actually only used once (in The Eye of the World Chapter 33). Brandon used ‘magics’ in Towers of Midnight Chapter 48 in Aviendha’s POV, but he also used ‘magical’ in Faile’s POV in Towers of Midnight Chapter 16 (neither word appears anywhere else in the series).
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