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Originally Posted by Dngrsone
I say amen to that.
I understand that one can never catch and fix every error, regardless of the number of proofreaders you pass it by (at least, in part, because one can't satisfy everybody); but as I said before, if I spot two or three glaring errors within the first ten pages of a book, I'm seriously reconsidering my reasons for reading it.
I'm not some literary purist or anything-- I read YA and pulps, even-- but I do have some standards. One of those is have an understanding of the language in which you are writing (and that goes double for translators) and its grammatical structure.
If you are going to violate the rules in the name of art, then do so in a way to allows the reader to understand that you are doing so on purpose and you're not a hack.
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As a writer, it's my belief that you can break any rule you want so long as you do it on purpose.
Breaking rules for effect can be very powerful, breaking rules because you didn't take the time to learn them in the first place can be disastrous.