"Write What You Know" Limits Us
/Saying “write what you know” limits us from the outset - we only “know” a limited number of things, after all. I know the smell of honeysuckle on a summer’s day. I know what it’s like to have a toddler, to be a terrible bowler, to slurp up gin from my rat’s nest of a beard so as not to waste its herbal booziness. We should certainly write our experiences, but we cannot limit ourselves only to that. We should be encouraged then to have new experiences. To know and learn - gasp! - new things. Write with authority and authenticity. Marry experience with imagination in a ceremony upon the story’s page.
CHUCK WENDIG
