To help us improve our craft of writing, we’ve all taken classes. Read many articles on the rules of grammar and writing. Listened to members of a critique group talk about writing rules. Which ones should we follow? What advice should we take to heart, or more precisely to keyboard? Answer: Take what works for you and discard the rest. Nothing is cast in stone. My writing workshops all begin with the disclaimer that I don’t know everything, and nothing that will be suggested is a “must.”  Again, take what works for you and discard the rest. That goes for this blog post, too.