What do you mean there are rules?
Rules. Writers tend to have a love/hate relationship with these tricksy little buggers. We use them. We break them. We ignore them. We scream vile obscenities at them as we twist them to our purposes. The worst part about the “rules” is that they are often strong suggestions posited as absolutes. Show, don’t tell. Kill all adverbs. Avoid using pronouns. Don’t filter. The list is never ending as is the bad advice that goes along with each one. There are a million writers with
