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SEPTEMBER Question - Since it's back to school time, let's talk English class. What's a writing rule you learned in school that messed you up as a writer?
MY ANSWER - "Write what you know". While I don't necessarily see this as bad advice, so many people tout this as if it were really "You can ONLY write what you know." Because of this, I steered away from a lot of topics I was previously excited about when I was young. However, as I grew older, I realized if this were true, we would never have authors create whole universes such as Star Trek and Lord of the Rings.
What about you? What's a writing rule you learned in school that messed you up as a writer?
2 comments:
I've since learned that less is more when it comes to adjectives and adverbs., but boy how I loved using them way back when I was in school.
Very good point. And how do we learn things if we don't know them?
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