Writing Outside Your Experience by Poppy Gee

 

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

This month was my turn to set the questions, and I plannedto share my experience writing a neuro-diverse character, in my novel VanishingFalls, when I am not neuro-diverse myself.

But recently, I had an interesting conversation at a writingcommunity event, so I want to s...