Decimals Into Percents

Part of the allure of being a writer is the ability to do whatever you want. Entire planets can be created on a whim, or a brand new government. Postulations about the economy of the future—or maybe what it was like in the past—bloom on the page as you unleash your imagination and let it show off its stuff.

Words are the fuel of thoughts. We can emote, sure; even babies do that. But our actual thought processes are powered by the combination of, in the case of English, twenty-six squiggles and lines that we call the alphabet. With those twenty-six figures (and the extra ten for numbers, and then the additional signs we use for punctuation can also count) brand new ideas, age old concepts, and everything in between can be expressed. With such a versatile tool, it’s no wonder that there are countless books on the face of the planet!