{"id":1648,"date":"2014-06-04T12:57:55","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2014-06-04T12:57:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T19:57:55","slug":"write-what-you-dont-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2014\/writing\/write-what-you-dont-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Write What You Don’t Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve heard it over and over again\u2014write what you know<\/strong>. That makes sense, as writing what you don\u2019t know<\/strong> is more difficult in many ways. As an author, how do you get inside your characters, or describe the places where they live or work if you know nothing about the jobs they do, or their communities?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, how lovely it is to explore other ways of living, being, working. What a creative challenge it is for the author to get into the mind of someone who has other interests, other goals in life, and gives you a different constellation in which to travel. When you write what you don’t know,<\/strong> you have to let your imagination fly.<\/p>\n

It seems best-selling author, Toni Morrison (here in conversation with author Junot Diaz) agrees that it’s often better to to write what you don’t know.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n