LIN ROBINSON, MYTHBUSTER:  ANARCHIST OR LIBERATOR?

In socio/political/military situations such questions are more easily answered. You either end up crucified on a lamp post with dogs gnawing your feet or in control of the Palace and media… until it’s time for the next liberator/terrorist to take a shot. In real life, and much less in the Arts, it’s a muddlier picture.

This is kind of the pilot or milk run for my soon-to-be-widely-reviled series on demolishing the idiot rumor myths that infiltrate the internet, and therefore your skull and the pants of your muse. So let’s get it straight right off the bat: reform is not anarchy. Thinking twice is not heresy. Repetition is not truth: common sense is not common.

Most of these myths are the road company variety know as “rumors”. They get passed on third and fourth hand by people trying to puff up their blogs and pretend they know diddly about writing. While glance at their profiles generally shows that they don’t. In fact, they tend to be pernicious fools.

And I’m here to bash, bunk, bugger and otherwise blofiate those myths. Not as a “Grammar Nazi”, and not, as some would have it, as an Anti-Grammar Nazi, either. I’m not an anarchist. The natterers quickly come on with, “Oh, then let’s just not have rules, is that what you want? Just open the gates and invite the barbarian hordes in for tea and miscegenation? Write scholarly papers in textese with no vowels? OMG, WTF, LOL!”

Not so, bro. Au contraire, mon frère. I will not only refute these canards, but bring scalding proof and the lacerating light of day to this nonsense, and how. So if you’re hearing people say you can’t do adverbs or multiple POV, or prologues or passive voice and think you should listen because you’re a new writer or snoozed through grammar class in school, sign up for some pro-class debunkery.

Not so.
Important to understand what is rules, and what is myth and what is something in between.

Hence– MYTHBASHERS.

See the latest mythogeny HERE: