Kent Wayne

Musings

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Currently in an Eng 200 class (no they don’t know I write novels), but I’m rankling at the requirements:  No sentence fragments/contractions/etc.  Makes for dry/blah writing.  After peer editing some stuff I truly can’t understand, I realize that-when starting-knowing the rules is essential to making [writing] comprehensible.  But at a certain point, to make [it] really sing, the rules need to be ditched deliberately, fully knowing WHY they need to be ditched.

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  1. Mike Fuller Author Avatar
    Mike Fuller Author

    Academia…

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  2. William Spear Avatar
    William Spear

    First, you must learn everything. Then, you must unlearn everything.

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  3. hooklineandinkwell Avatar
    hooklineandinkwell

    Yes, yes, and YES! Sometimes we have to toss the rules out to achieve our goal.

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  4. rweir4 Avatar
    rweir4

    I feel the exact same way. I love figuring out what rules I can break.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      And how sweet it is to be rewarded for breaking them… 🙂

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  5. macasanne Avatar
    macasanne

    Exactly! That’s what I tell my students. I teach the rules so they can be broken with purpose!

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      Then you’re a great teacher! I bet you get tired of butting heads with some specific colleagues…. 🙂

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      1. macasanne Avatar
        macasanne

        Oh, I sure do! I’m the renegade.

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  6. Sandra Avatar
    Sandra

    I love this. So true. I have to break rules for my writing to make me happy – for it to truly be mine.

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    1. DirtySciFiBuddha Avatar
      DirtySciFiBuddha

      And didn’t the rules come from genius rule breakers in the first place? 🙂

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      1. whatsandrathinks Avatar
        whatsandrathinks

        Also true!

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  7. iwillnotliveinvain Avatar
    iwillnotliveinvain

    Truth. My writing style obviously isn’t for everyone…. But I get a lot of compliments on my style and flow… All while using the heck out of fragments and other broken rules 😉

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