Garden Party

OK, you have been writing since first light early in the morning. All the rules you feel you must obey drag you down. These rules include grammar, the techniques of genre, the dictates of voice, vision, and tradition, and the expectations of various classes of readers.

The lyrics from Ricky Nelson's Garden Party play across your mind.

But it's all right now, I learned my lesson well.
You see, ya can't please everyone, so ya got to please yourself.

We all make choices when it comes to writing. Dictating to someone what those choices should be works until that someone is alone and confronted by a blank page. Then it is anybodies guess how it will turn out.