Five Second Post Before Work? I think Yes

Right, I'll make this quick since I have five minutes until I've got to get ready for work *sighs* Monday mornings...

Whilst reading How I Live Now I noticed there were a few grammar rules the writer managed to look. I.e. Writing extremely long sentences with many, many ands and ands and ands and also writing capitals half way through when usually you wouldn't as the words generally aren't nouns, like writing The Feeling Of Hating Money Mornings and the writer would just make it its own noun worthy of capitals.

This is a good example of someone breaking the oh so precious rules people debate about over and over again. And also a reason people invent the phrase "learn the rules, follow the rules, break the rules". It is so true its not funny!

Most of the times it is best to follow the rules, but if you can break them, and break them well go for it! It can make you stand out from the crowd and get your book noticed. Hell How I Live Now was shortlisted for an Orange Award for New Writers, the author must have done something right.

That isn't to say you shouldn't started speaking in txt font, just 2 b diff. That would be plain annoying and would get you an instant rejection (its just horrible to read!), but don't be afraid to bend the rules. Write for yourself not to get published. If you're convinced you need to break the rules to make your novel awesome do it!