Writing Rules That Beg to Be Broken

Image: a man wearing a clean, sky-blue button-down shirt sits at a work surface with a paint brush in one hand and a mechanical pencil in the other. Messy globs of paint from nearby jars cover the work surface, his hands and forearms, and his utensils.

Aspiring writers are inundated with rules to follow—but writing is creative, so don’t look to prescriptions or those who preach them.

Jane Friedman
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