We don't need no stinkin' rules! Part 4

Practice breaking rules

Recap of parts 1-3

Rules, rules, rules. We don’t need no stinkin’ rules!

Over the past three episodes of A Writer’s Block, we talked about the “rules” of writing fiction, which I prefer to call techniques and tools. Once writers have mastered these techniques, they can branch out and learn how and when to stretch, bend, and break them to a particular effe…