Write Who You Know

 

Terry here, My topic this week: Write what you know. How has your life shaped your writing? And how has your writing shaped your life? 
 \My mother-in-law had a cartoon at her desk that I got a kick out of. The caption read, “It’s not what you know; it’s who you know. And who do I know? I know YOU.” 
 How does that relate to the topic? I don’t necessarily write what I know, I write who I know. I know the characters who inhabit the books I write. I “know” them as if I had met them—which, in a wa...