Looking for Rules?

Why do some writers keep asking, “Where’s the rule for... ?” as if there were some magical place full of “the rules for writers — grammatical, syntaxical, literarial, spellical, and stylical”?

Listen up: many people offer GUIDELINES; however, there are no “rules” — not in the U.S.! We have a wonderful one-of-a-kind language set-up, based on English (and German and French and Spanish and Italian and...). A writer needs to look at all the GUIDELINES, choose their preferences (just like on computer sites) and WRITE! The best advice you’ll ever get:

Question “rules”
 Notes your preferences in Your Style Manual
Be Consistent
and WRITE!