I just finished reading that entry too. As I've gotten older and looked at different genres, I've come to the conclusion that write what you know, amounts as much to 'emotions you've felt' as it does actual happenings. Cause who really knows about talking to a Unicorn or aliens or whatever? And of course, there's observation... you watch people around you and you will learn new insight into new emotions perhaps without even having felt them yourselves.

There's this new(? might not be new) debate in children's literature that schools should only carry multicultural books that were written by a person from that culture, with the logic that only a person from that culture can actually know what it's like. That's the logic of saying that men should only write books with male characters because they can't write females and women should only write female characters cause they don't know what its like to me men.

So... long story short? Don't particularly agree with 'write what you know', and I think what you 'know' can be alot more than what you may have personally experienced.

But, yes, I totally hear you on insecurities about writing. I've got those all the time!

And I'm so glad you like your icon!!