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Write What You Know?

john baker, November 27th, 2007. No comments. Filed under quotations, writing.

Michael Snyder at The Master’s Artist doesn’t know anything at all. But he still wants to write:

So what I have to do is start writing and see what happens. Eventually I get to know the world that comes trickling down from my brain and out of my fingertips. At some point I find a guy I sort of recognize. Then I cause him some trouble, usually give him a wry observation about whatever that trouble is, then make him get up and do something about it. Whatever he does is what I end up knowing. And eventually, if I keep banging away at it, not only do I finally know a little something, I typically get to love it too. So instead of writing what I know or writing what I love, I have to sort of reverse the order…I get to know and love what I write.

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