Write fiction the right way

I recently posted to LinkedIn regarding the way we are currently being taught to write (succinctly, no over-writing, less adverbs, less adjectives, less similes, less metaphors, trimming fat, don’t use the same word over and over, shorter condensed descriptions, stronger verbs and nouns, delete not required backstory, don’t repeat yourself, use active voice the majority of the time, increase action, express don’t explain, show don’t tell, etc.) and asked other writers if they know of any professional  published authors that write this way. There aren’t many. It seems that most people break the rules.
One thing I heard was; learn all the rules, then once you have done that and you are proficient in writing the way you are suppose to, only then are you allowed to break the rules as you see fit. Probably good advice. Still, how can we learn from ‘good’ authors if everyone breaks the rules?
Ernest Hemingway seems to be one of those well known and respected published authors that does write the way we are suppose to write. There are probably others, I just haven’t read their novels yet.
It is annoying, though, that we continue to pick up and learn supposedly bad habits from almost every single novel that's on the shelves today.

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I say, write what feels right and go with it

I dislike rules. Sure they can help with writing techniques and help to establish a generic reader base. But just look at the writers that said to hell with what other people think and how I’m ‘suppose’ to write, I’m going to write what I like and how I like to write it.
Down with rules. Go anarchy! Hehe.

I don’t like it when someone says, I don’t think that is what that character would say/do. To me that means that that person has their analysing hat on rather than their reader-being-entertained hat on.
I had a publisher say it recently and I guess it annoyed me a little. Especially when that sentence was deleted without my input and then posted to a website and my name stamped on it. Oh well, when you’re not a big name in writing you have to do what you’re told I guess (I just try not to let them do it all the time).

I know most publishers and editors would disagree with everything I’ve just said. Probably you disagree as well?

Oh and some examples of authors that go against the flow:

Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men, The Road.
Have a read of just the first few pages and you’ll see what I mean.

Annie Proulx, Brokeback Mountain.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter.

P.S. If we didn’t have people like you to mix things up and experiment we probably wouldn’t have the stories we have today and the many different styles and genres of today.