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When Breaking the Rules Works

The Shit No One Tells You About Writing

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The Fragmented Sentences of Elaine

Holly: I found the writing style pretty fragmented, right? Like that choppy style of writing where a lot of really kind of short sentences. And there's also, I found a grammatical error in the first line, which I'm always like, okay, that's like something to stumble upon and not the end of the world,. But the combination of that plus the fragmented sentences, to me fragmented sentences always feel young. They feel really young," Holly said. "I didn't get the intention that she was supposed to be young because it says, I learned, we learned in the pages, she was 17 when she visited the farm"

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