Best Advice? Write About What You Know

2016 #ROW80 Round 1: Check-In #21

One of the most cliché writing advice is to “write about what you know.” That doesn’tmean to limit yourself, but to know your limitations. I found the truth behind this statement the hard way.

I know nothing about geekdom. No matter if it is Star Wars, Marvel/DC Comics or anything under the cosplay umbrella. I know nothing. So, having a complete chapter in which my MCs are having a date at a Star Trek festival had taken me three times longer.

It isn’t that I...