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Originally Posted by HarryT
As I remarked in an earlier post, it's fine to break the "rules", provided that you know enough about them in the first place to know when it's appropriate to break them. Eg, we're taught as writers, "don't use sentence fragments", but Dickens put them to masterful use in the famous opening paragraph of "Bleak House":
Here, he's using sentence fragments to achieve a particular (and quite wonderful) effect, but lesser writers would still be well-advised to avoid them!
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Common phrase uttered by "authors", "So and so did it, why can't I".
Usual answer because you aren't so and so and that is not how he did it.