10 Writing Rules You Can (and Should) Break

Why, if we wanted to follow rules we would've leapt to become the low-to-mid-level employees that we've had to be anyway in order to buy ourselves all the time we need to learn how to not follow any goddamned rules for a change. Because, regardless of what all these rule enforcers like to tell themselves and others, breaking rules really means writing new ones of your own, which, of course, is way harder than simply following the ones other people came up with. But regardless of how you feel about rules, so long as you're willing to break them now and then, here are 10 that you should absolutely have.