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I've been thinking about writing. People always go on about "write what you know" and so forth. My dad has asked me why I don't write about sailing, since it's something I know about and love. I've wondered too, because it's never been something I write about it. The first, and so far only, time was a poem I wrote back in January.

I guess I find it hard to express. Also, the urge just isn't there. I get the desire to write about people, but not about sailing. I suppose there are ways to combine the two... but I've just never had the urge. And I know from experience that I can't just write because I wnat to write something... I have to be inspired first. I'm inspired to go sailing, but not to write about it.

Do other people find it easy to write about their lives & hobbies? Or do they always end up writing about completely different things, like love-sick vampires, interstellar warriors, spies, FBI agents, aliens, and guerilla war soldiers who fight oppressors with human-shaped tanks?

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Writing what you know isn't necessarily writing only what you've lived. What you know can translate in different ways. There may be some day when you're seized with the need to write all!sailing!all!the!time! but it may be after it's settled into you and mushed around with your creative processes. It may be just a small piece of some other larger story. Who knows. But I'm all for writing what your head wants to write (check out the recent whineage in my LJ for what my head wants to write vs. what I feel I should be writing).