There have also been a few stories that were about how a crime novelist knows what they write a little too well…
Authors seem intelligent, right? They probably know a lot of things. But are they experts on what they write? What happens if an author writes about something they know nothing of? Should authors write only about what they know?
Question 123 – Write what you know. Do you agree or disagree, and why?
Absolutely not. If every writer followed this rule, there’d be no such thing as fantasy, horror, or science fiction. We don’t “know” these things because they aren’t a part of our everyday lives, and yet authors churn out books about magic, robots, interstellar travel, or zombies all the time. By all means research what you’re planning to write, but to say you have to experience things in order to write about them is absurd.
Know? Understand? Have experienced? I have never experienced a space battle, outside of dreams/nightmares. So how could I…
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