{"id":45398,"date":"2019-03-12T17:56:34","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T21:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=45398"},"modified":"2019-03-12T18:54:59","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T22:54:59","slug":"dont-be-afraid-to-break-the-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/12\/dont-be-afraid-to-break-the-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Be Afraid to Break the Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on <em>Two Drops of Ink<\/em>,\u00a0Christopher Fox urges writers to learn the rules of writing for the specific purpose of breaking them to make a vital, fulfilling career. &#8220;When you work tension between mastering the rules and defeating them, you equip yourself with the intentional decision of making language work to achieve your writing goals,&#8221; Fox writes. As examples, he urges writers to make up words, use jargon, and skip the class\/workshop routine &#8211; all of which contravene the common wisdom. &#8220;There really isn\u2019t a grammar or stylistic rule that can\u2019t be broken to convey the right idea with the appropriate nuance,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twodropsofink.com\/2019\/03\/02\/coming-out-as-a-creative-rule-breaker\/\">Read the full post here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@lum3n-com-44775?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Lum3n.com<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/close-up-of-hand-holding-pencil-over-white-background-316466\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a post on Two Drops of Ink,\u00a0Christopher Fox urges writers to learn the rules of writing for the specific purpose of breaking them to make a vital, fulfilling career. &#8220;When you work tension between mastering the rules and defeating them, you equip yourself with the intentional decision of making language work to achieve your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436,468],"tags":[480],"class_list":["post-45398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-10-minute-workshop","category-fiction-101","tag-rules-on-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45544,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions\/45544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}