Should my character …

Should my characters get hungry? Should they eat? Should they become aroused? Should they bark like a chicken, or crow like a pig?

Some of those are hyperbole, obviously, some are truly questions asked in writing forums. Not just NaNoWriMo‘s, though the non-hyperbolic examples are taken from those very boards.

Again and again, when writing the only should is: you should write — the story won’t write itself, and you should use proper and clear language — without it your story is unreadable, or n...