Soldiers

One of the reviewers for Schism wrote about a quirk I failed to notice while writing, but which is part of my life – that I capitalized the S in Soldier.  This isn’t something normally done since S is usually lower-case for soldiers for most people.  However, I’m not most people.

Until August of last year, I was a Soldier for 24 years.  General Eric Shinseki sent out guidance long ago, when he was the Army Chief of Staff, that soldier should be capitalized as Soldier.  It’s an Army thing rather than a “regular writing” thing,  Just a quirk of my former career, and it was second nature to me.

Any other quirks of writing that affect you?  What do you do differently than the so-called “right” way of doing things?