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Anyone burning with curiousity can find my answers on one of those "things I've done" memes (snitched from nonnycat), here. I'm looking for life-experience statements that are somewhat universal but more diverse than ones related to drug use and sex.

If you ask me, I'll deny it's true.

Transfered by vellum from mimerki
"Write what you know."

What aspiring fantasy or sci-fi writer hasn't heard that advice and cringed? We don't want to write about *us* - our lives are so boring and mundane. Or are they?

Everything you do that seems deathly dull is probably unknown and new, even alien, to someone somewhere else. Even if it's not, as a writer you should be able to make it seem that way to your readers.

Pick up the challenge. Take a slice of your normal, dull, boring daily routine and write it the way you would a fic. Keep it true but make it interesting. Write yourself in third person*, the hero/ine of the newest chart breaking novel about a student/office worker/mother/net geek/whatever. Write what *you* know best.

*This is 1st person, but not my POV.

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