Writing About What One Knows Best
I had often wondered about the advice that had been given to writers for who knows how long: “Write what you know.” Since this advice had been handed on from generations past, I never questioned it. Now that I am no longer a professional writer, I find it easier to go against the grain, so to speak, and question what I read and hear about the writing craft. This is one advice I cannot now bring myself to believe. Why? Because if I wrote only about what I know, then I would be limiting myself considerably. Come to think of it, through the years that I worked as a feature writer, I never followed this advice. Thank goodness I didn’t. Otherwise, I would have lost many opportunities to explore areas of life that I knew nothing about. As a feature writer, I was always on the look-out for good story sources – and there were no limits. If I had limited myself then to what I knew, I would have probably written only a fraction …
