Rules For Writing the Novel, and other bits of nonsense

“There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” ~W. Somerset Maugham

I mentioned here a few weeks ago the classic book of writing instruction The Elements of Style, by Strunk and White. In the face of everyone in the modern world who gets their writing rules online with one or two clicks from the AP or The Chicago Manual of Style, or Grammarly, or a program, I’m reading this little book, much like a novel, and for the same reasons–entertainment, en...