4 Exercises for a Better Understanding of [Your Own] Writing

The writers you've heard of broke plenty of rules. Even the good writers. Even the writers who wrote books about how other writers should write.

Here are four exercises to help you unlearn some of the lessons that you might have been taught by creative writing or English professors over the years, which may or may not be helpful to you now that you're writing your own work.

There's no one right way to write.