Writing Rules - really?

I'm questioning the writing rules on this site. Some of them sound old school. I'm posting the link for the fun of it... maybe even to create a good discussion of what writers use and don't use...Selekted Riting Wrules (WRITING RULES)

Thanks for posting this. This sounds like something my old school marm would have written. I think it's good to know "the rules," but adhering to them doesn't necessarily make good writing. In writing fiction, I break a lot of those rules. I might use truncated sentences to add suspense or to relay a character's thoughts. All those rules go out the window when writing dialogue. Just some thoughts...
Marie

Gimster,

Cute...all rules are made to be broken...unless I make them!

I am not a writer, but noticed that you have a new avatar. Finally accepting your "given" name, are ya?

Love your posts. Love the woman behind the posts.

Wasn't it clever how the person "selekting and riting" the list of "wrules" played on the rule itself.
I think a great many of them are 'old school' - aren't they old English?
I think Katrinka is right, it's acceptable to break them. Can't help but to, on some of them.
When I'm writing, I find myself trying to conform to what I was taught. And, sometimes what I've written, sounds too formal. Then I'll quoi fish through it and really mess things up. My dad claims I use way too many commas. I was taught to use one at every natural pause. Hard to break sticking to that practice for me.

Anno, how SWEET of you. Back atchya!!! I thought the image was apopros for an avator for this forum (an individual from a sig site made it for me),... what the hay, a name is only a name.