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Step Two: Experience Something
A famous person once said the best way to write about something is to experience it first. They weren’t wrong, but they weren’t completely right, either. Sometimes you just can’t experience your stories first-hand. But that’s not always a bad thing.
Example: If you’re going to write a story about the Donner Party, that shouldn’t require you to rush out and buy a bunch of pioneering gear and get lost in the mountains. That’s just ridiculous – especially when we consider the current state of the economy, which has driven the price of both time machines and human meat out of most people’s buying ranges.
So what to do? Write about what you have experienced? Hell, no. There are only so many tales you can spin about going to the grocery store or eating in a restaurant.
My best advice is just to lie. That’s what writing is all about. Ever read an autobiography? Good, wasn’t it? Ten pounds of bull, every single one of them.
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See you tomorrow.
- TJG
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