Write what you know

“Write what you know.”

~Unknown (frequently attributed to Mark Twain )

I could write a whole post of how to interpret this writers’ turn of phrase. Actually, now that I write that, I am going to have to make a note to do that one day. Today, however, we are going to take that statement at face value, that we should only write about things we actually know about in real life.

The problem most people have with this statement is that they take it to mean that the extent of anything we write, eithe...