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Agentt the hypocrite

examples?

I only believe what I can see! *picks up spade*

A while back I tried my hand at condensing my experiences editing into a self editing guide of sorts, trying to avoid the limitations of hard rules by putting them in context, relativizing and pointing out their intended area of application. I still stand by most of what I wrote, but have since...

The problem is that imo it's near impossible to grow without at least occasional input and that will always include preference. In personal experience less reflected the less experienced the person themself. My rule of thumb is that you're allowed to break any rule so long as you understand why...

To someone with a decent bit of previous experience, the offered rules may seem stupid and limiting, but waterhosing newcomers with exceptions upon exceptions is worse. Sure you might miss the time to revisit their universal validity, but harmful cognitions will come taught or not.

Knowing what you write is shit and being able to tell why are two entirely different things and writing classes, to my understanding, are supposed to give you a few starting tools to bridge the gap.