The Rules I Never Knew I Needed to Break

Discovering your authentic voice in a sea of shoulds, and 10 rules worth breaking.

There it sits—your cursor blinking accusingly on a blank document, while your inner critic whispers all those writing rules you've collected like lint in your creative pockets. Start with a hook. Use proper transitions. Maintain a professional tone. Fuck that noise.

I spent years suffocating my writing voice under layers of starched linguistic propriety,…