Happy Holidays, all. Hoping, however you celebrate them, you enjoy a peaceful, lovely time. Fending off much snow here, but that's not unusual
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A lot of the grammar rules that are taught in school (old and new) are 1) based rather dubiously on idea about symbolic logic and Latin that have little or nothing to do with effective English style and 2) applicable to academic non-fiction, but not necessarily to creative prose. After all, even in the third person a writer is trying to create a sense of character "voice," which means incorporating informal and colloquial language to a certain degree
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Thank you! I'm not a pro and definitely needed a bit of guidance. Being aware of the creative prose aspect, I don't want to stifle character voice in respect to colloquial language and informality. So I will probably not worry so much about it. Times they are a changin'.
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