
“Write what you know” is one of the most common pieces of advice given to writers, but also one of the most easily misunderstood. Our own Harrison Demchick explores what we really mean, and what we should mean, when it comes to writing what you know in his guest post for Fiction University.
Short of the ubiquitous show, don’t tell, there may be no better-known writing aphorism than write what you know. You read it on blogs and in books, and you hear it spoken by professors in college classrooms—or maybe book editors like me.
But take care. Write what you know may not mean what you think it means.
Head over to this link to read more of the article.

Harrison Demchick came up in the world of small press publishing, working along the way on more than 60 published novels and memoirs, several of which have been optioned for film. He is an award-winning, twice-optioned screenwriter, and the author of literary horror novel The Listeners. He’s part of The Writer’s Ally team as a developmental editor of fiction and memoir, for which he’s currently accepting new clients.
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