Seventeen Ways You Can Break The Rules by Tamar Zelazny
- Jan 12
- 1 min read
2. Don’t start where they think you’re going to start.
3. Dance in the puddles when it rains, even if you don’t have rainboots.
4. Break the fourth wall and wink at them like you know what you’re doing.
5. WriTE tHe wAy YOu wAnT tO wRitE, eVeN iF tHEy DisAGReE.
7. Don’t use a system that makes sense to them, or even to you.
8) Read all the books in the world. You can’t have a story if you follow the rules.
9. Make the most of your unique characteristics. The world’s too competitive to hide.
10. Don’t sit in your chair correctly. I like to sit on my foot until it gets fizzy, and then I stomp all of the fizziness out and do it again.
3. Look away during the ad break. Never let the system get to you (but always let them think they’re getting to you).
11. Live your life in a split-level house. Go up three steps, and then fourteen, and then five.
12. SHOUT AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS…and whisper in the same sentence.
13. Go out of your way to go into your way. Go your way.
14. Fill a can of Eggshell White paint with a lime green or hot pink, and set it back on the shelf.
15. Draw the blinds. Make sure you use a #2 pencil, though. Has better vibes.
Sixteen. Look through the ceiling at the sky.
17. Follow the rules when they’re used to you breaking them.
(18. And then break them afterward anyway.)