Rules Are Made to Be Broken (Mary Strand)
This month at YA Outside the Lines, we're supposed to talk about a memorable time we broke a rule ... and, related to that, how we write about rebellion in our YA (young adult) novels. With rare exception, I don't break rules. So this is similar to being asked to blog about times I've lied. I don't lie. There's a reason I became a lawyer: I believe in the rule of law. But I scrounged around in my memory for ANYTHING to write about. Truly, there's not much. I've always looked so clean cut and younger than my age that in college, on the extremely rare occasions when I smoked a cigarette (which always involved either final exams or alcohol), at least one complete stranger would come up to me and say, "But you don't smoke." Dude. Don't tell me what I don't do. But if I do break a rule, it's for a good reason. And that reason usually has to do with fairness. A few of my basketball teammates of 10 years ago occasionally call...
