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#WritersCoffeeClub December 17th

Which writing conventions do you ignore, if any?

Short answer: all of them.

Long answer: I've been writing for about 50 years and turns out there are no firm rules. Some conventions are mutually contradictory: others sometimes work against the author's intent. So I pick and choose which to ignore.

For example, there was one novel in the first person present tense where I murdered the narrator two-thirds of the way in—and kept going. Made the Hugo shortlist.