Another great resource
Below is an excerpt from the Advice on Writing section of Lawrence Watts Evans’ website. Even though he’s a fantasy writer, he has a whole bunch of helpful information that applies to all writers.
“Beginning writers often want to know what the hard and fast rules are, the rules they simply must follow. Sometimes writing teachers and books of advice even provide them with rules, which they then get obsessive about.
Don’t.
There are no hard-and-fast rules in writing. There are guidelines and suggestions.
If you call them guidelines and suggestions, beginners will often decide to ignore them — “they’re just suggestions.”
If you call them rules, beginners will obsess foolishly about them. “I can’t do that; it’s against the rules!”
It’s a no-win situation for advisors, and feeds my conviction that many beginning writers are simply determined to worry about all the wrong things in order to avoid looking at the true situation and acknowledging how simple, and how difficult, writing professionally is.”
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