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I came across this via a Twitter link and thought it should go here since it applies to both SF and Fantasy writing.
10 Writing “Rules” We Wish More Science Fiction and Fantasy Authors Would Break
I think it has some valid points.
Ashe Elton Parker
"Just love me, fear me, do as I say, and I will be your slave." ~ David Bowie as Jareth in Labyrinth
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Member since 1998.
~*~There’s a great conversation going on in the comments over at The Passive Voice, who also reported this link. Yes, I got involved.
J.A. Marlow
The String Weavers, Salmon Run, Redpoint One series.Writer alter-ego of Dreamers Cove
Ten rules about which rules should be broken. Thought provoking article.
The most worrying thing about rules I think is the possibility that an author has constructed a great book, but that it gets rejected because some pedant who’s just completed a creative writing course has a job as a first reader at an agent or publisher.
Rules are made to be broken. That’s how the human race progresses. Whether that’s good or not is another question.
J.A. Marlow wrote:There’s a great conversation going on in the comments over at The Passive Voice, who also reported this link. Yes, I got involved.
Your comment at PV brings up the question of why people read fiction.
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