Is it Okay to Break the Rules When Writing Short Stories?

Justiss Goode | Follow @GoodeWriter
3 min readMay 18, 2021

Some writing related rules are really just suggestions.

On the day I decided I was finally going to take a short story writing course, I cautioned myself with the following words:

At least learn all the rules first, before you start breaking them.

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