3.8 Writing Rules I'm breaking this Novemeber
This novel, I’m breaking my writing rules When it comes to writers and the concept of ‘rules’ when writing, there are generally two camps. Camp No-Rules believes that there are no hard and fast strict rules for any novel. Camp Rules believes in murdering adverbs, not starting sentences with ‘and, or, but.’ These two houses, e’er at war on the battlefield of novel crafting… or are they? If you are familiar with my writing habits, you will know that I fall very firmly into the rules camp. My list of story ‘ don’t’s’ is far longer than my list of do’s . I’m vehemently against prologues, I’ll die on the hill of anti-flashbacks, and I’ll start a barfight over love-at-first-sights. I agree, adverbs weaken a sentence and filler words should be stripped from prose. I’m against three-pages of backstory on the history of the origin of the Dean of the magic college and I do not approve of ‘something just felt…’ as a reason for characters acting a certain way. Now that I’ve sent so...