Dec. 3: Breaking the Rules

In today's writing the author talks about the fact that there are established rules such as sentence structure and grammarical rules. In poetry their are certain types of rhyming patterns. However, sometime new rules and/or practices come into being only by the writers who are daring enough to break the rules. According to the author "essence of art is its daring to penetrate the dark corners of the psyche, of human experience in general. To do that, one cannot be bound by conventional rules."
FOR FURTHER REFLECTION:
It is in artistic context that the aurthority of standard rules diminishes. It is in this artistic context that new rule replace the old ones.
Today's TRY THIS assignment:
Write a story without thinking consciously of the rules of short story writing as you have learned them. (For example, "tell the swtory from one point of view only"; "keep your tense consitent throughout"; "begin a new paragraph when a different person speaks"). After completing the draft, reread it carefully with the rules in mind, and decide which of them you want to eliminate or reinstate as the case may be.
Can't do this one today (again) so it will be placed in the composition book for later consideration.
However, thanks to the spelling and grammar check of modern wordprocessing software programs we have come to depend on these programs to show us where we have made grammatical errors and we can then chose to make the suggested changes or not. It often depends on the context whether I will change or chose to leave the sentence unchanged. If it makes the speaking of the story more conventional or in keeping with the character I will often chose to not change the sentence.