Bad books on writing tell you to ‘WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW’, a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
Joe Haldeman (via thegodawfulgatsby)
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(via youvegotbeauty)
…and screenplays about awkward writers moving to Los Angeles.
Writing what you know is useful in direct proportion to how interesting what you know is. If you don’t know anything interesting, go learn something!