What Does ‘Write What you Know’ Mean?
Write what you know is a common piece of advice you might hear from a writing teacher, but how valid is that proclamation? After all, did J.K Rowling know anything about magic? All those fantasy, sci fi and historical fiction books are not about our times or even our planet or realm, and yet authors write about them, so are they ignoring this advice? And even those who write about murders and describe the corpses, have all those authors actually walked onto a crime scene and seen a body like that? I doubt it. Certainly some might, but plenty of others haven’t. Writing a novel? Feeling overwhelmed? Get new insight and inspiration with my FREE Novel Revision Checklist. DOWNLOAD IT NOW. What the instruction to write what you know isn’t saying The advice to write what you know isn’t suggesting that we should all stick to memoirs or contemporary fiction.…