"Puppet wrangler? There weren't any puppets in this movie!" – Crow T. Robot
Honestly, this wasn’t a very exciting day, unexceptional even in its dullness. The hummus salad sandwich I bought for lunch was more exciting than this Monday. It was a perfectly ordinary, entirely average, nothing-to-write-home-about kind of day.
And y’know, I’m okay with that.
As for “Write what you know,” I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things. I know them better than anybody else possibly could, so it’s my duty to testify about them. I got my knowledge of them, as I got whatever knowledge I have of the hearts and minds of human beings, through imagination working on observation. Like any other novelist. All this rule needs is a good definition of “know.” [via]