Write What You Know… What A Load Of S@~#t!

Douglas Shore
2 min readJan 12, 2022
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There is a common saying in the writing world. “Write what you know.”

What a load of shit!

You see, this sentence plagues us all, beginners to experts. It is used as a way of making sense of the writing you wish to put out into the world.

I mean, on a fundamental level, it makes sense. If you write what you know, then the writing will come…

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Douglas Shore

Author of Violet Villin, The God Of War, Food writer and recipe developer. Follow me for my many writing rambles.