Comments on: Knowledge Isn’t Always Power

By: --Deb

--Deb — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 22:43:02 +0000

Thanks, LaRene. To me, that’s one of the best parts about writing–being able to put myself (or, my characters) in completely new situations.

By: LaRene

LaRene — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 21:08:27 +0000

This article really struck home for me. I’ve written a young adult series all about an other galaxy with people just like us. They have totally different technology and experiences.

I have never had to much fun as I did writing this series. It took me to a place that was dangerous and fun. It was about a man’s journey to become the protector of a galaxy. He always had problems and dangers. It was an creative charge. I’ll always be grateful that I experienced.

By: --Deb

--Deb — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 16:02:38 +0000

Yes, well he was so, so wise…. (grin)

By: Raymond Chua

Raymond Chua — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 10:40:01 +0000

Einstein said, “Imagination is better than education”
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By: JC

JC — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 20:00:37 +0000

You put your finger on it in that reply, Deb - research. Writing is creative work, with equal weight on the creative and the work. A C Clarke is a trained physicist and mathmetician. He knows whereof he speaks, and his fiction reflects his expertise. John McDonald messed about with boats, so Travis McGee knows which end is the pointy bit. On the other hand, I despair when I read of the hero disengaging the safety on his revolver. (Revolvers don’t have safeties).

By: --Deb

--Deb — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 23:38:52 +0000

Well, of course, all writing–fiction or non-fiction–is an extrapolation of what we know to be true. The emotions are universal, but the settings are not, and that’s where people get into trouble, I think–when they try to be or know or pretend to know something they don’t. If they’re very good at writing, you might not notice that that person had never actually, say, scaled the Himalayas. Especially if they did their research well. But so many writers–beginners, in particular–don’t yet have that skill, and it often shows.

By: Judy H.

Judy H. — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:15:15 +0000

I’ve always interpreted the maxim ‘write what you know’ a little broader. Christie didn’t commit murder, but she knew small town life backwards, forwards and upside down. She knew the people she based her characters on, and knew what might push them to murder, or to cover that murder up. Mark Twain knew displaced people and the feeling of being on the outside of society. He knew the south better than King Arthur’s Court, which is why Huck Finn is somewhat more famous than that Connecticut Yankee.

Everybody knows pain, anger, fear, loss, joy and lots of other valuable things from a very young age.

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