Why We Must Write What We Don't Know

This week in the Cold, we're talking about the noble art of writing way outside of our experience. "Write what you know" is not bad advice for a beginning writer. It gives us a place to start that's familiar and tangible. But it's incomplete, because a crucial part of the magic of writing fiction, or non fiction for that matter, is in discovery. Imagination is the fairy dust that makes our stories come alive, and walking in the shoes of a being that may be nothing like us, in a culture that is as alien as a distant planet, is not only the stuff of great fantasy, but it is the foundation of compassion. This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2018/06/15/writing-what-you-dont-know/ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/victoria-dougherty/support