Write what you know?

 

What are your thoughts on writing outside your ownexperience? What are the potential pitfalls? What are the reasons to do it? Canyou give a personal example of how you navigated this potentially problematicterrain?

 

One of the first rules of writing that I learned was rightwhat you know. I couldn’t agree less. So, I ignore it all the time. Personally,I think that should be a rule strictly for non-fiction. I mean, consideringthat someone always dies, normally not well, in my novels, my ...