I am so excited to have the very talented Helen C. Johannes visiting with me today as she speaks a little bit about the craft of writing and gives us a look at her exciting fantasy romances!
I’m Helen C.
Johannes and I write fantasy romance for The Wild Rose Press. Thank you, Deb,
for kindly offering to host me on your blog. I’ve given some thought lately to
the fine art of writing, and I have a point I’d like to discuss. I’d be
delighted to hear your thoughts on this:
“Write what you know.”
That’s the
advice given to aspiring writers. And it’s basically good advice. No one can
write authentically about a career, place, time, or situation without having
‘knowledge’ of it. Aspiring writers of suspense and crime fiction, for
instance, ought to know what a police detective or private investigator really
does before attempting to write a story around such a character. Stories fall
flat when the author’s ‘knowledge’ fails in the eyes of a reader or editor.
