11th Week of Thoughts

Ever since II was little, breaking rules was always my favorite thing. Monopoly, Sorry, somehow even Trouble. I could find a way to confuse, distract, or even just straight up steal from people all the time. I would do anything to come out on top, because people not paying attention made it way too easy. This week we read the Letters to Young authors, and all of the lessons someone who made it in the writing world had to say. I personally picked topics that interested me. Things that, by the name, seemed to contradict each other. “There are no Rules” “The Habit of Hoping” “Fail, fail, fail” My personal favorite being that there are no rules. Obviously. I like to take that idea a list more seriously than I should, but in the idea of writing, I agree completely. I have said multiple times in my responses I am NOT good at writing. It is always well thought out, I am just unorganized, and it is hard for me to get my point across. I do enjoy the notion of writing with no rules, because I do. I write however I see fit and for me, writing informally get’s my point across way better than trying to sound super smart. Something that McCann points out however, is that you can not break the reals, if you do not know them well enough. I definitely, do not know the rules. I mean I have been writing since Middle School, but again my scholarly writing is not great. Before I can learn to write however I want, I need to learn the basics. I need to work harder in my classes like these in order to slowly build my basic skills back up, so I know how to bend the rules later down the road. I knew the rules of the game. I knew me counting wrong to get me to land on free parking did not seem unreasonable. Or me swapping properties with someone who was not the brightest, because they would not know any better. I need to learn the real rules of writing before I start break them.