Waddya Know?

Posted on Dec 16, 2017 in News | 1 comment Here’s a fine, standard piece of writing advice. Every writer has heard it. “Write what you know.” But what does it really mean? In Jann Martel’s The Life Of Pi, a boy is shipwrecked, loses his entire family and the zoo animals they’re transporting to Canada, and he ends up stuck in a lifeboat with a tiger. Is that what the author “knew?” Knowing doesn’t necessarily mean...
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