“Write what you know” doesn’t mean what you think
2 min readMar 3, 2021
If you’re a writer, you’ve heard the advice to “write what you know” countless times.
There are generally two camps of writers: those who believe you should write what you know, which means drawing inspiration from your own life experiences for your work, and those who believe that advice is ludicrous. Isn’t the whole point of fiction to make stuff up? If that’s true, then the…