Today, I’m guest posting on Victoria Mixon’s blog with the post “5 Writing Rules You Should Break“:

Writers and pirates have more in common than you might think. Aside from the truth that we all enjoy roaring out a hearty, “ahoy, matey,” now and then, the biggest commonality is the fact that neither of us are sworn to obey the rules. Captain Barbossa’s words in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl apply just as much to writers as to his grubby chums: “The code is more what you’d call ‘guidelines’ than actual rules.” Following are five writing rules you should break.