rantsthedog:
My mother just told me that I can’t realistically write love because I haven’t been in love.
UM
My personal experiences count for exactly jack shit in my stories. I haven’t become the Grim Reaper’s assistant, been trapped in a city with psychos in masks, gone to a magical university, met the Antichrist, gone to Hell, been an assassin, resurrected a son of Anubis, had an imaginary friend turn out to be a ghost,etc etceither but that doesn’t effect my ability to write that stuff, does it? Because IT’S NOT HAPPENING TO ME. It’s happening to these people, that I invented, and that I can make do anything I damn well want.
When I’m writing about Zeek and Clara, or Dexter and Lewis, or Jared and Lilac or Mary and Lizzie or whoever I’m not thinking of what I’m going to say and do, am I? It’s about them. They are the ones in the romance, and my personality effects absolutely nothing in that.
Since when did you have to do something to write about? CS Lewis never went to Narnia. JK Rowling never became a witch. Jane Austen never had a romance and got married.
Yeah, that’s right, Jane Austen never had the kind of romance she wrote about, but no one’s doubting her credibility as a writer because she’s FUCKING JANE AUSTEN. For the record I actually hate Jane Austen’s books.
Anyone who says you can’t write something because it’s never happened to you can go suck a dick.
Experience helps, but if you had to experience everything you wrote about, Jules Verne, C.S. Lewis, and J.K. Rowling would have had pitiful careers.
