#it's just 5am and ever since telling tumblr im a writer ive been getting the most basic dry ass 'remember to use commas uwu' writing tips

[sojournerstales]

writing tip or something

I'm gonna say break the rules. I don't mean this in the squealing motorcycle, smoke cloud, 'n smoking sort of way. I mean it in the way that if you rigidly follow every correct grammar tip your writing is going to turn out to be incredibly dry. You gotta know the rules, they're there for a reason. Grammar helps maintain flow and understanding and eradicates (for the most part) ambiguity.

Sometimes you gotta not do that though. Sometimes you have to sacrifice a little clarity for a little lyricism.

Different POV characters will have a different perspective on the prose, and in turn the prose might have different ways of phrasing something. There is a difference in texture between a strictly objective narrator vs a narrator that is taking the perspective of its main character into account (whether that is in third person or first person), and that texture comes from your choice in sentence structure and grammar.

Sometimes run-on sentences are horrible, yes. Sometimes there is such a delightful horror to be found in a sentence that is going on for far too long, like the shrill rising whine of a high note being stressed to the point where something has just gotta give. And then the sentence lets you go.

Or something, iunno. I'm not the cops do what you want.