#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?

"Write what you know."

If I could only write what I know, I'd be bored to tears, and the reader would be too.

I like to say that I strive to "know what I write" instead. Writing for me is about exploring worlds, lives, and experiences that are different from my own, and that I may not know much about when I start. But hopefully I know a lot more about them when I'm done writing.

#WritersCoffeeClub 3: Is there one piece of well-known writing advice you ignore?

"Do not talk to me of the Deep Writing Advice. I was there when it was written."

Advice is fine, you consider it, work with it, look for its use in writers you admire, decide how to use it if at all. The key is the word "advice".

Endless regurgitation of what say Chekhov said when writing Chekhov as though it is legally binding and handed down by Aslan, no.

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