{"id":200,"date":"2012-09-01T17:57:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T21:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2012-09-09T22:37:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T02:37:01","slug":"write-what-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"Write What You Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happily I’ve never had a person actually turn around and tell me I’m not capable of doing something I’ve clearly just done, but I’ve heard this “write what you know” nonsense both ways.\u00a0 If I did it awesomely, it must be MY experience I’m writing!\u00a0 And if I haven’t had this experience, there’s no way I could write it well!\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

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News flash: Figuring out how to speak and think as a different person\u2014to present perspectives and experiences that are not our own\u2014is pretty much WHAT WRITERS DO.\u00a0 Unless we are writing our autobiographies, the things we write about can’t be assumed to be representative of what we think and what we know, and we can’t be expected to restrict our writing to presenting only points of view or experiences that are copied verbatim from our own heads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<–Previous Comic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next Comic–> <–Previous Comic\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Next Comic–> Happily I’ve never had a person actually turn around and tell me I’m not capable of doing something I’ve clearly just done, but I’ve heard this “write what you know” nonsense both ways.\u00a0 If I did it awesomely, it must be MY experience I’m writing!\u00a0 And if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/soyouwrite.swankivy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}