on revising

As I said in an earlier post, writing is subjective like other arts. The more I study it, the more frustrating it becomes. It would be easier if there were hard-fast rules that simply could not be broken. English is too flexible. Never write in fragments(unless that is the tone or voice you are going for). Never write in the passive voice (unless you are trying to shirk blame, or your boss tells you to write that way) Never write in short simple sentences (unless that is the style you are going for) So basically, write the way your boss or instructor tells you, until they are no longer your boss or instructor, then go back to writing the way you want. It's just like when I was going to school for photography. I had to shoot subjects my prof liked if I wanted a good grade. After I was done with that class I went back to shooting what I liked. That's not to say I didn't learn anything; I certainly did and I shot my old subjects in new ways, but the subjectivity frustrated me.
Looking at the article we had to read for this blog, notice all the green squiggly underlines, indicating grammatical aberrations picked up by Word. Now of course people will say "Well, that's just Word. ignore it. What does Microsoft know anyway?" Microsoft certainly doesn't know everything about writing, but I'm sure they hired professional grammarians when writing the code for Word. It's just like the photographic exhibit at the DIA by the famous NY photographer. It's ok for her, but don't you do it; at least not until you become a famous author, then you can break all the rules.