Topic: Old books with heavy narration

I'm currently reading a 100-year-old book called The Lord of the World. It's been updated for modern audiences, although I don't know what changes were made. Nevertheless, it's filled with pages and pages of narration. Doesn't bother my enjoyment of the book one bit. If your story is good, you can break the rules, and if your story is garbage, the rules won't save it.

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Re: Old books with heavy narration

Every rule has exceptions. Doesn't mean they should be ignored, though. Some are more important than others but since I haven't figured out which is which I try to follow the rules I've learned or the ones I get bludgeoned with in reviews as much as I can.

One day I hope to be good enough at this craft to be comfortable breaking a rule and meaning to because I find it silly. Right now I'm still scared to start a sentence with and or but, though.

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