it sounds right to your ears
19th June 2017 | for Creatives | language, writing, creative freedom, Ryan G. Van Cleave |
"I've used more than one non-sentence in this article alone, and the Grammar Police haven't come after me yet. If it sounds right to your ears and it works for readers, leave it alone. Even if it's a fragment."
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