I will also pay no attention to all that bad advice I got from teachers. It occurs to me that "write what you know" can have many levels of meaning and doesn't have to be "write who you are," without reservation.
No, it certainly doesn't have to be. But that has always been the route I've chosen, and, too, I think you will find that no matter who much you try to keep who you are out, it'll leak in anyway. To b become a published author, you have to be willing to see your every weakness and blemish publicly laughed at and condemned and dismissed as self-indulgent whining.
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Date: 2011-01-31 07:38 pm (UTC)I will also pay no attention to all that bad advice I got from teachers. It occurs to me that "write what you know" can have many levels of meaning and doesn't have to be "write who you are," without reservation.
No, it certainly doesn't have to be. But that has always been the route I've chosen, and, too, I think you will find that no matter who much you try to keep who you are out, it'll leak in anyway. To b become a published author, you have to be willing to see your every weakness and blemish publicly laughed at and condemned and dismissed as self-indulgent whining.