Agreed. Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Literary Fiction should not have to abide by rules it wants to break or ignore. There are sometimes consequences for breaking them (readability for some). But every writer can weigh the pros and cons of breaking the rules (or just not spend time thinking about them at all).
Agreed. Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Literary Fiction should not have to abide by rules it wants to break or ignore. There are sometimes consequences for breaking them (readability for some). But every writer can weigh the pros and cons of breaking the rules (or just not spend time thinking about them at all).
It's so often said that we learn the rules to break them, but the greater truth is that the rules we learn at first aren't as absolute as we believed. They were never meant to be so strictly followed.
Agreed. Hemingway, Cormac McCarthy, James Joyce, etc. etc. ad infinitum. Literary Fiction should not have to abide by rules it wants to break or ignore. There are sometimes consequences for breaking them (readability for some). But every writer can weigh the pros and cons of breaking the rules (or just not spend time thinking about them at all).
It's so often said that we learn the rules to break them, but the greater truth is that the rules we learn at first aren't as absolute as we believed. They were never meant to be so strictly followed.