I’m with you on the Oxford comma. I have my 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Carey, to thank or blame for it, lol.
This was a great perspective on the dictionary, and rules in general. I’ve always enjoyed when writers, filmmakers, musicians, and others bend traditional rules and blend or cross pollinate genres.
In one of my college bands, we played cover songs in different genres - like old crooners songs played in reggae or thrash metal styles. It was a fun way to challenge ourselves to see if we could make it interesting to the audiences.
As a writer of many rules, and as a breaker of many rules, I ponder a certain obsession with contour and structure. In my case I find it’s an avoidance tactic when the content I’m working on scares or challenges me. I admire the virtuosity displayed by any artist, and aspire to climb those creative peaks, but I have failed and fallen often. I am finding though that the downhill climb is the most difficult, the excavation skills required, quite different. But then again the content I’m after is gold; the hard scrabble.
Yes, and maybe start by realising which resource is meant to be prescriptive, and which purely informative. In your example, know that story structures are out there, books written about them, but that doesn’t have any normative consequence. Just be aware which is which.
I’m with you on the Oxford comma. I have my 12th grade English teacher, Mrs. Carey, to thank or blame for it, lol.
This was a great perspective on the dictionary, and rules in general. I’ve always enjoyed when writers, filmmakers, musicians, and others bend traditional rules and blend or cross pollinate genres.
In one of my college bands, we played cover songs in different genres - like old crooners songs played in reggae or thrash metal styles. It was a fun way to challenge ourselves to see if we could make it interesting to the audiences.
Oh, that's badass. I love stuff like that!
As a writer of many rules, and as a breaker of many rules, I ponder a certain obsession with contour and structure. In my case I find it’s an avoidance tactic when the content I’m working on scares or challenges me. I admire the virtuosity displayed by any artist, and aspire to climb those creative peaks, but I have failed and fallen often. I am finding though that the downhill climb is the most difficult, the excavation skills required, quite different. But then again the content I’m after is gold; the hard scrabble.
Yes, and maybe start by realising which resource is meant to be prescriptive, and which purely informative. In your example, know that story structures are out there, books written about them, but that doesn’t have any normative consequence. Just be aware which is which.
Right. Everything is decided on a case-by-case basis.