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Jul.26.2009
On Writing What You Know
For years, the biggest obstacle preventing me from growing as a writer was the old saw: "write what you know." I interpreted that to mean that I should only write what I had actually experienced. My aversion to risk and general introversion are such that I felt I did not have the breadth...