Photo by Rob Brewer
-More than one of them cried out in pain, “This is impossible, my brain hurts!”-
Write what you know.
Really? Do I have to?
It’s because of these four, seemingly innocuous words that people like me spend hours staring at the damn cursor on the soul-suckingly blank screen. How often have you shied away from writing something you’re interested in because you simply do not feel that you know enough? Tech specs, genre specifics, races, clichés, real names of types of laser beams…
I didn’t grow up reading Science Fiction. I was a slow reader and the true fascination for me was fantasy, but I could only swallow about a book a year. So when, for the first time, I sat down to try my sonic-galacto-pen at Sci-Fi, I was stumped and all I could hear, bleeding through my brain in a repetitive, tin-robotic drawl, was “you don’t know anything about science fiction, so you can’t write it.”
