Rules are meant to be broken, and nowhere does that happen more than in writing. There are thousands of success stories of people who got what they wanted that weren't supposed to, like bloggers who have book deals, 17 year olds who write bestsellers and inexperienced candidates who got the job just for being ballsy and marching into the office. Marion Street Press has some tips for the Renegade Writer on old chestnuts you should simply ignore when pitching articles, like "Buy six back issues of magazines before querying," "Keep queries to one page," and "Check Writer's Market for the name of the editor to query."