: Is it usual? No. Can you do this? Of course. The question is not, Is there some rule against it in the Laws of Writing that All Authors Must Obey Under Pain of Death? The question is,

Is it usual? No. Can you do this? Of course.

The question is not, Is there some rule against it in the Laws of Writing that All Authors Must Obey Under Pain of Death? The question is, Is it effective?

Any time you do something unusual, there is the danger that it will come across as a gimmick. If you do something unusual just to do something unusual, odds are it will sound lame. Sure, you could write a story where every sentence begins with the letter "w", and it would no doubt be challenging to write a coherent story that way. But would anyone care? Or would your efforts to make the story fit this arbitrary constraint just end up making a weaker story? But if you have a good reason for doing it, and it works in your story, than by all means do it.

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