Comments on: Guest Post: Write What You Know… or Don’t Know… Or Want to Know… Know What I Mean? http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/guest-post-write-what-you-know%e2%80%a6-or-don%e2%80%99t-know%e2%80%a6-or-want-to-know%e2%80%a6-know-what-i-mean/ Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Sat, 15 Jun 2013 05:04:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Sunny http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/guest-post-write-what-you-know%e2%80%a6-or-don%e2%80%99t-know%e2%80%a6-or-want-to-know%e2%80%a6-know-what-i-mean/#comment-30862 Sunny Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:42:41 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11461#comment-30862 They all take the phrase, “Write What You Know” too literally. I love that phrase because it stopped me from attempting to write about things I didn’t know. I always felt a need to write general novels about real life. Fiction, but without magic or anything cool like monsters.

Until I heard the phrase, “Write What You Know.” What I know, is fantasy. Magic and dragons. Long quests. Weapons, sword fighting styles. War and domination. That’s what I know, and so that’s what I write.

I don’t think the ‘know’ is supposed to be literal. It’s ‘know’ as in what you feel comfortable writing about. What is it that YOU know when you write.

]]> By: Wednesday Linkdump « Seeking the New Earth http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/guest-post-write-what-you-know%e2%80%a6-or-don%e2%80%99t-know%e2%80%a6-or-want-to-know%e2%80%a6-know-what-i-mean/#comment-25511 Wednesday Linkdump « Seeking the New Earth Wed, 15 Dec 2010 16:42:07 +0000 http://www.sfwa.org/?p=11461#comment-25511 [...] Write What You Know?: The oft quoted piece of advice gets some treatment from Sci-Fi authors in this article. Take it into consideration. [...]

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